Knight26

Quick update, I've added on the basic hull and major weapon's packs, still need to add the lighter fighter scale guns, engines, docking mounts, wings etc... I am actually going to put on the docking mounts next before the engines so that I can better position them, thought I am considering leaving the docking mounts off if I have to. I may shorten the overall length, but am definitely considering an internal weapons bay forward of the ventral torpedo pack, there is more then enough room. Right now the left hand weapon's pack is the missile launcher, carries 34 missiles, the right pack is the antimatter cannon, it opens before it fires. I look forward to your comments. This first shot shows the craft with the cannon closed.

Man I can't find the pics, am I just blind or did they take them down?

Guys don't egg on agentone, just let him go off oil up and perform unspeakable acts with himself.

Damn Exo that is sweet, oh yeah and airwolgf sucked, blue thunder owned it.

Mmmm, Mig-29 and F-20 tigershark fighting side by side, man that would be sweet. of course it also makes you wonder about the prototype that "disappeared." Look it up, one of the F-20 prototypes is currently unaccounted for, no one knows what happened to it, been a mystery at Northrop for years.

Oh yeah I heard about that right before it happened, well heard about the aircraft purchases, my friends and I called it the ultimate fly off between the Mig-29 and the Su-27. I just wish there was more information on the actual engagement, gun camera footage would be so sweet.

and a quick shot of the cockpit will need to add more detail later.

Well I didn't get much progress done this week, will get back to it tommorrow, the onyl thing I did get done was a couple development sketches I did on the plane rides to and from Norfolk, and some work on the new cockpit. I went with something look much more like the initial redesign concept, mixed a little more with a bit of the original. Right now it will be a two seater, but I am looking at making a four seat varient for EW and shuttle duties. The other concept I came up with I may develop into some kind of small shuttlecraft, but that is up in the air right now. Hopefully I will have some more progress for you tomorrow, at least a basic layout design up. Well first here is the sketch.

that's a lot kinder then waht I was thinking of saying

Not sure how to take the comment about the "same company" defense, these craft were always intended to be designed by the same company, I'm working under more of an design bereu style, with multiple manufacturers building a single companies design. And yes, I will eventually texture them with individual sqauadron and to a lesser degree nose art. Now onto the update, i decided to start fresh again, going back to the three seat config, but that will definitely change, i rationalized a reason for the third crewman but decided against it later. I'm considering side by side seating now instead of tandem in order to make it look more unique. Anyway here is what I came up with more working out loud then anything else at this point, I really need to sketch this out before I start putting into 3-D, will do that on the plane tomorrow. BTW I will be on travel this week so don't expect any updates before saturday, by which time I will hopefully have a design locked in.

Ok, small update, reshaped the nose and antimatter cannon pod, that thing will take some major rework soon. I also added preliminary engine pods (not attached yet) and torpedo launcher, these may or may not stay, man this thing is being a pain. Wabbit: Primary purpose of this craft is to be used against light captial ships, Corvette-Cruiser in size. Also interdiction strikes, precision strike, and limited close air support of ground troops. Lynx: I kind of see where you are going, this one along with the last two are designed by the same company are designed to be highly modular, hence the similar configurations. Right now though the only common componets are the cockpit, guns, torpedo packs (though modified on this one). I admit I have a bad habit of sometimes making craft look too similar to one another, but if I do I try to make sure that they are either all made by the same rave, or in this case the same company, kind of like the Solaar fighters of the GF as well. SS: Funny it does look really similar and that gives me some ideas on how to proceed, if you don't mind that is, i don't want to be accused to stealing your design. As for any in environment renders, the last render or two of each thread is usually an in environ render, just take a quick search and look.

Nifty, makes me wish my nephew was young enough for me to buy that for him.

Here is the first shot of the new concept, I look forward to yout input.

Ok now we have the long range strategic bomber, main line medium/superiority fighter and the fleet defense interceptor. What's next you ask, how about the light assault bomber, basically it's a cross between the A-6 and A-10. Nothing on this one is sacred at this point, except making it a two seater (maybe three) and assymetric. The old design was a three seater and only slightly assymetric, the third person in the cockpit really served no usefulness so will likely be dropped. The weapons load for the current design is as follows: 2-Plasers, 2-Energy cannons, 2-Antimatter cannons, 30-missiles (in 2 rotary launchers), 20-bombs (dual internal bays), and 6-light torpedoes. Again this weapons mix is not sacred and can easily be changed. I look forward to input on this one because I am not quite sure what direction i want to take it yet, I only have a rough idea. Anyway here is the registry for the original:

Ok one last shot before I start on the next design. Man those shadows are pain to line up.

The Su-30MKI would own the Super Hornet, lets face it, thrust vectoring, the Archer (which has off bore sighting capabilities). the Gsh-301 (highly accurate and can be set to autofire as soon as it has a good firing solution.) Besides the Su-30 MKI would also have the advantage in being inherently more manueverable with a better thrust to weight ratio and the ability regain lost energy better, as well as keep up its energy more, the Super Hornet bleeds energy in a turn like you wouldn't believe.

It's an F-22 on crack, but really I doubt the current Chinese aviation industry could turn out an aircraft like that, lets face it most chinese aviation designs are just rip offs or production liscences from other countries. I think they have maybe turned out two unique designs, that weren't oversized "kit bashes" of other aircraft, and both of those were garbage.

Nice woz, but the flaps are wrong, the VF-1's flaps don't simpyl fold down they are slotted flaps, will try to find some pics of this later.

Man I thought I knew every fighter nickname, but what the heck is the RHino? Last plane I heard that one attached to, besides the Hammerhead from SA:AB, was the Phantom, one of its many nicknames.

A quick comparison shot with the Splicer 5000, you can see that while the 2000 is larger, mostly in length and wing span, it is much slimmer. The 5000 is built like football linebacker, tough, bulky and strong, whereas the 2000 is a track star, sleek and fast. yes I see the texture issues, I am trying to resolve that, I know what is causing it but now how to fix it yet. ANyways, enjoy. Man I can't believe I am using sports analogies for my fighters, lol.

Parting shot, will start on the "ugly sister" tomorrow.

The things we do to satisfy the test pilots, the cockpit is in, and with the results I anticipated, they took out my nice clean, new plane and got i all dirty, sheesh guys.

Ah yes the FAMRAAM, the AMRAAM with ramjets, not the greatest idea in my book, but the closest thing to a phoenix replacement without a brand new full up design being approved. Man if only the navy leadership had a brain we would either 1: have the Tomcat-2000, 2: a super hornet that was better designed, to arry phoenix, have larger engines and longer range, or 3: have a whole new design that would be a true successor to the tomcat.

Very very nice, by cruiser which one do you mean? Post a description or pciture and we can give you the correct name.

Finally the test pilots come and have a look, I swear these guys are always complaining, now they're dissatisfied that there is no cockpit interior, I swear there is no satisifying some people.