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BAI F-12 "Ghostdumb"

4,008 YuYsukablyat  24 days ago

Я вас категорически приветствую, my dearest dears.

Well... look, I have the description, a bunch of ideas, and all that stuff for the F-12. Here it is:

After a long period of silence, BAI is back! This time, we are presenting something completely new and years, if not a decade, ahead of its time – the world's first heavy sixth-generation(!) fighter, the F-12 "Ghostdumb"!

BACKSTORY: It all started when the autumn blues hit the heads of the company, even though they're in Somalia, of all places. Well, as they say, you can take the moron out of Russia, but you can't take Russia out of the moron, so that Russian melancholy caught up with Oguzokebani and YuYsukablyat even in East Africa. As a result – they went on a multi-week bender, a real hardcore one. Naturally, any talk of new projects was out of the question – nobody, except the chief engineers, even knew how to hold a pencil. The monkeys in the assembly halls were idle, chewing on tools and munching on bananas. The guards were also boozing periodically; all in all, everyone was just doing whatever. The only ones working were the KMTO (reminder – Korpus Materialno-Tekhnicheskogo Obespecheniya [Logistics and Supply Corps], they're not pirates, you know), who had been running trials for a whole month on the "Admiral Kuznetsov" (bought from freezing-cold Murmansk and restored) and the brand-new F-1000s, periodically bringing back all sorts of stuff from their trips. But one fine day, the KMTO brought back something that could turn the entire Banana Aerospace Industries upside down and elevate them to the level of global multinational corporations, if not higher – a Soviet "Minsk-32" mainframe, found in some godforsaken backwater. When it was brought and unloaded in pieces at the main BAI base, they decided to show it to the boss, so he could figure out what to do with it. When YuYsukablyat arrived, his crazy eyes lit up again, and he began his drunken, almost unintelligible speech: “F-fuck yes! Now, with the power of this mainframe and its computational might, we'll be able to make stuff that will beat those damn Yankees across the ocean tenfold! Eat this, Trumpy and Boeing! Alright, you slackers, quickly send the carrier pigeons to 'Klounada,' let them sober up over there too, and tomorrow we start a new project! That's it, I've said my piece, now all of you shut up, I'm going to sleep…” Understanding only the enthusiastic tone of their boss, the monkeys, the guards, and the KMTO decided to throw their own little party, because apparently, something good had happened. Oh well, everyone drank, had fun, and passed out. The next day, absolutely everyone, dying from a hangover, started to get back to work. While everyone else was invariably busy with some incomprehensible bullshit, the newly arrived guys from AKES helped reconfigure the newly-acquired mainframe for physical calculations and modeling. After which, using punch cards made from pieces of cardboard with holes cut out by a knife, and creating rough sketches of the future aircraft on scraps of paper and old newspapers, work on the twelfth project of Banana Aerospace Industries began. And it was precisely thanks to the use of such powerful technologies, combined, of course, with the immeasurable engineering genius and schizophrenia of the chief engineers, that it was possible to create the "Ghostdumb" as it is.

SPECIFICATIONS: So, why are we so confidently calling our F-12 sixth-generation, and what radically distinguishes it from the fifth? Oh, there are at least a couple of reasons for that… First – the engines. Thanks to simulations on the "Minsk," we, with the support of the guys from AKES, were able to create innovative (although they were invented back in the 60s, like the J58 from the A-12 and all its "brothers," including the much more famous SR-71) motors for our fighter – variable cycle turbo-ramjets. But ours, of course, are far more modern and reliable, as well as lighter. It is this type of engine that allows for full-fledged operation in three modes: subsonic cruise, a very economical supersonic cruise, and a massive top speed of ~Mach 3. Second – the rejection of separate vertical and horizontal rear stabilizers, replacing them with a single V-tail. This made it possible to reduce the structure's mass, drag, and RCS. The disadvantages of this type of tail are compensated for by the presence of canards. In addition, the variable-sweep wings significantly expand the effective operational envelopes, and the ability for differential deflection of control surfaces, along with special pumps in the fuel system that allow for the rapid transfer of large volumes of fuel between tanks to shift the aircraft's center of gravity, allow for even greater maneuverability and the performance of completely insane maneuvers (...purely theoretically, of course, this isn't in the game, sorry, I would literally go insane trying to implement all of this). Third – an AI that can take over control if the pilot suddenly gets knocked into the astral plane by G-forces, completing the maneuver and preventing the pilot and machine from being destroyed, and possibly even continuing the fight once the bag of bones wakes up. And this, considering the capabilities described in the second point, is extremely useful. And this same AI, in standard mode, simply controls this whole aerodynamic-and-center-of-gravity-related clusterfuck, because otherwise, even with the most advanced fly-by-wire system ever created, this thing would have fallen apart during its very first launch.

Buuuut… as you can see, nobody has built anything) It's just… well, damn, I'm not even going to make excuses, I'm just a lazy bastard, plus I'm busy with other things. But just know what's waiting for you. Sooner or later, the Ghostdumb will exist)

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    4,008 YuYsukablyat

    @TitanVector Because it's kind of a "legacy" of the FB-2 Dumbshark name, with the "dumb" part, and the "Ghost" part is just because it sounds cool.

    +1 8 days ago
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    8,857 TitanVector

    Bro... Why did You Choose "Ghostdumb" as A Name?

    8 days ago