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This was my original inspiration for my F20A-series fighters, and what got me started in aircraft design. When Ifirst saw "Yukikaze" (the anime mini-series this aircraft is from), I knew I was practically looking into a crystal ball --- this is what the future of combat aviation looks like. I knew right then and there, that I had to create something that could eclipse the Super Sylph, but it took YEARS to perfect the F20A3 Stalker --- now it's come full circle, and I have FINALLY created a 3-view drawing of the legendary FFR-31MR/D.
As you can see my F20A3 Stalker borrows a lot from the Super Sylph's silhouette, as well as it's overall performance. Perhaps an unusual attribute for such a futuristic warplane (it's a 6th, maybe 7th generation jetfighter), the Super Sylph has no internal bay. It's internal gun (which appears to be an M-61 Vulcan derivative) has a whopping 1550 rounds of ammunition, and normally carries just 4 missiles on 2 double-rail pylons, but there are at least 4 hardpoints.
The Super Sylph, primarily serving as a spy plane, is loaded for bear with sensors and computers, and in at least 1 example (labeled B-503 "Yukikaze") there is a sentient AI computer that shares control of the plane's systems with the pilot and WSO.
The airframe's layout is more than a little strange, with raised canards (ala IAI Arie), sideways-facing AESA radar, widely-spaced vertical stabilizers, oddball landing rear, seperate canopies for the pilot and WSO, a VERY rear-heavy profile, and enoumous amounts of auxillary vertical stabilization. The wingtips are pitched down, so as to employ compression lift, and the thrust nozzles offer low radar-obsevability AND thrust-vectoring in 3 dimensions.
It's probably REALLY awkward to fly, but it does offer incredible performance.
As you can see my F20A3 Stalker borrows a lot from the Super Sylph's silhouette, as well as it's overall performance. Perhaps an unusual attribute for such a futuristic warplane (it's a 6th, maybe 7th generation jetfighter), the Super Sylph has no internal bay. It's internal gun (which appears to be an M-61 Vulcan derivative) has a whopping 1550 rounds of ammunition, and normally carries just 4 missiles on 2 double-rail pylons, but there are at least 4 hardpoints.
The Super Sylph, primarily serving as a spy plane, is loaded for bear with sensors and computers, and in at least 1 example (labeled B-503 "Yukikaze") there is a sentient AI computer that shares control of the plane's systems with the pilot and WSO.
The airframe's layout is more than a little strange, with raised canards (ala IAI Arie), sideways-facing AESA radar, widely-spaced vertical stabilizers, oddball landing rear, seperate canopies for the pilot and WSO, a VERY rear-heavy profile, and enoumous amounts of auxillary vertical stabilization. The wingtips are pitched down, so as to employ compression lift, and the thrust nozzles offer low radar-obsevability AND thrust-vectoring in 3 dimensions.
It's probably REALLY awkward to fly, but it does offer incredible performance.
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More people should see the Yukikaze series --- there simply isn't anything else like it.
BTW, Here's a link I forgot to add to the description that goes to a totally awesome Yukikaze AMV on youtube;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLJ7HFOJUXk
BTW, Here's a link I forgot to add to the description that goes to a totally awesome Yukikaze AMV on youtube;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLJ7HFOJUXk
It does very closely resemble the Su-30 Flanker and Mig 1.44 Flatpack.
This is somewhat ironic, because in the written version of Yukikaze (published some 10 years before the anime version was created), all the FAF's Air Superiority fighters were seemingly based on the F-15 Eagle. The FFR-31MR/D, in particular, was originally much like the F-15MT/S.
This is somewhat ironic, because in the written version of Yukikaze (published some 10 years before the anime version was created), all the FAF's Air Superiority fighters were seemingly based on the F-15 Eagle. The FFR-31MR/D, in particular, was originally much like the F-15MT/S.
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