Fictional military aircraft
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Fictional military aircraft are imagined aircraft which are used in fiction
, in its various media, but do not exist in the real world. These aircraft may be conjectured variants of real-world aircraft or they may be completely fabricated by the author.
's novel The Andromeda Strain
.
for U.S. military aircraft, between the F/A-18 Hornet
and the F-20 Tigershark
. This unseen F-19 was speculated to be a top-secret stealth fighter
in U.S. service. Various depictions of F-19s have since appeared in fictional works, as well as in the usually accurate Jane's
All the World's Aircraft
publication (as the Lockheed
RF-19 and XST).
American model airplane manufacturers Testors and Monogram have both released hypothetical model kits of the F-19, the former quickly becoming the best-selling model airplane kit ever. Ironically, the Testors F-19 model bore no resemblance to the F-117, having a sweeping, streamlined appearance as opposed to the sharp, angular design of the Nighthawk.
The Testors design was also the basis for F-19 Stealth Fighter
, a flight simulation program released by Microprose
in the late 1980s. Able to run on several different platforms, the game offered users both air-to-air and ground-attack missions in several theaters of operation – from Cuba
and Libya
to the North Cape
of the Soviet Union
. Although based on a fictitious design, the game posed many challenges to players, including reduced stealth capability when banking or near radar sites, or when the payload bay doors were open. A sequel, Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0
was released in 1991, after the F-117 was first publicly revealed. Consequently, it featured an aircraft much closer in appearance to the F-117. Users were offered a choice between 2 similar looking aircraft, one having fewer payload bays and being more realistic in handling.
The F-19A Ghostrider, which shares the same physical characteristics as the Revell
model kit, appears in Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising
, where an entire chapter is devoted to its exploits ('The Frisbees of Dreamland'). The stealth attack fighters, nicknamed 'Frisbees' by their pilots in reference to their smooth, curved shape, use AIM-9 Sidewinder infrared-guided air-to-air missiles to shoot down Russian IL-76 Mainstay
airborne early warning aircraft, thus allowing NATO fighters to penetrate Russian-controlled areas of Germany and bomb the Soviet forces massing there. To further facilitate the attack, the F-19s use nose-mounted lasers to illuminate targets for other fighters and bombers dropping laser-guided bombs.
There are many theories as to why no publicly known aircraft has been designated F-19. One theory claims that Northrop
requested to skip the number for their F-20 Tigershark in order to avoid confusion with the MiG-19 on the export market. Although there may be an actual F-19 aircraft still unknown to the general public, the designation may very well be an obsolete designation for the F-117 Nighthawk
.
-delta wing
ed strike fighter
in Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception
and Ace Combat: Joint Assault
. It is capable of accelerating straight upward and carrying high payload. In an air to air configuration it carries AIM-9 Sidewinder
and AIM-120 AMRAAM
missiles. It may also carry Mark 82 bomb
s and Maverick missiles. The plane takes its name from Apalis
, a genus of songbirds.
The F/A-37 Talon is a near-future, single-seat fighter aircraft of the U.S. Navy in the 2005 film Stealth
. In the film's fictional world, the only Talons are operating as a three-plane flight
for field evaluation, from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln
(although actually filmed on the USS Carl Vinson
).
The Talon is capable of hypersonic flight with two combined Pulse Detonation/Scramjet engines. As the film's title suggests, the Talon has stealth capability, along with movable, forward sweep, switchblade wings, an internal cannon for close-in fights, and an internal rotary launcher with a wide variety of ordnance, including GAU-12 Equalizer
, AIM-9 Sidewinder
air-to-air missile
s, AGM-88 HARM
anti-radiation missile
s, AGM-130
C air-to-surface missiles (called "Blue Ferret" in the film), FAEs, or fuel air explosives, of an unknown variety, and Truncheon implosion bombs.
It has a Common Integrated Processor (CIP), a central "brain" capable of making damage assessments, not just on enemy forces, but on collateral and civilian casualties as well. The CIP can make complex calculations, like estimating nuclear fallout, or projecting odds of survival.
The Talon is capable of precise attacks with minimal destruction. Each pilot has a view-screen for each wingman. Controls are streamlined; the computer communicates through voice and projection displays. The Talons had transponders that directly linked with the pilots homebase or a carrier's advanced flight center. The Talon has a self-destruct
system in case of system failure.
F/A-37 unique switch-wing design closely resembles patent #5,984,231 for "Aircraft with variable forward-sweep wing", issued to Northrop Grumman Corporation in 1999. This patent caused a wave of rumors about actual aircraft build with that design, with fictional name "Switchblade
", that was publicized in November 2000 issue of Popular Science magazine. Moreover, according to aerospace journalist Steve Douglass, Northrop Grumman was one of the technical advisors for the Stealth film. Yet another plane sharing design characteristics with the Talon is the VF-19 Excalibur
.
The cinema Talons also can perform a front-to-back flip-over (Pugachev Cobra) while in flight, per the Russian Su 37 Flanker-F. However, the Talon does it as a complete 360 roll, at high-G.
Technically, the F/A-37 should be called "Talon II", as the name "Talon" has already been assigned to the T-38
trainer aircraft.
The game Empire Earth
features a fighter called the Talon in the "Digital Age Epoch". It is almost identical to the F/A-37, although it is a white land-based fighter instead of a black carrier-based one.
, Stargate Atlantis
and other Stargate shows.
The F-302 fighter-interceptor is the production model of the X-302 hyperspace fighter, an air and space superiority vehicle operated by the United States Air Force, the Russian Federation and possibly the People's Republic of China.
, the EDI UCAV (Extreme Deep Invader Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle
) is a joint program in relation to the F/A-37 Talon. The UCAV EDI (call sign "Tinman") is smaller than the Talon and has a downward-canted delta platform. Despite its designation as a UCAV, it retains a cockpit for maintenance and emergencies. Among the new features are V/STOL
capability, a Kermit (metal ceramic) composite exoskeleton, and aeroelastic wings. The engine is described as a Pulse Detonation Engine
with twin Hybrid Scramjet Turbos fueled by catalyzed A1 methane
.
Being unmanned, EDI has shown to disregard G-forces and perform a complete sharp angle, high speed turn. It carries 2 Throat Ripper AAMs, 2 Shock Hammer AGMs, 3 AGM-130
s, known as Blue Ferrets, and 2 GAU-12 Equalizer
s. It is stated that with that load out EDI could kill 150,000 people or more if it attacks a city. EDI also carries 3 FAE, or fuel air explosives, missiles, though the designation of those missiles, and/or their power is unknown.
EDI's computer is more powerful than a standard Talon's at 10 tera-bits/second. It also has an Artificial Intelligence
system with Quantum processing achieved by a neural net. EDI Uses a UNIX
-Based Computing
. In the scene 23 of the film, it is seen that Dr. Orbit uses the command "su", and the terminal root user is "root@edicom". EDI's artificial intelligence goes even further by allowing it to speak freely without being influenced by a human controller. EDI is capable of identifying a target 5 miles (8 km) away or by using a satellite uplink. EDI can identify a human target by fingerprints, voice analysis, retina scan, or by face recognition. The most striking feature of the A.I. was its ability to learn at an exponential rate, and its ability to develop emotional feelings (this was not part of its original design, and developed after a lightning strike).
. Its shape seems to have mostly been inspired by the – unreal – Mig-31 Firefox. Though this plane is fictional, it could have been misleading, because all the other available planes of the game are real ones, for example the F-20 Tigershark
or the YF-23 Black Widow II
.
The Efreet is the best playable fighter in this game, which can carry all of the weapons. It is also the most expensive one.
The Firehawk uses forward-swept wings with rear-swept winglets and canards. It can be equipped at the airfield with either two anti-surface bombs or four air-to-air missiles (3 and 6 with an upgrade, respectively). It seats two crew, one pilot and one weapons officer. Firehawks can be refitted with special boosters that enable them to go sub-orbital, becoming impervious to anti-aircraft fire during the whole maneuver except reentry.
in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
.
Black Eagles feature forward-swept wings but otherwise resemble a Harrier Jump Jet
. They are loaded with powerful missiles used for engaging surface targets. Black Eagles are usually painted black in reference to their name. They most likely were inspired by the Russian Su-47 Berkut, which is Russian for Golden Eagle.
two German fighter planes attack Indiana Jones and is father. The aircraft has two forward-firing machine guns on its fuselage and is able to carry bombs. The aircraft existed at least by 1938, the timeline of the story. The actual aircraft used in the film to portray this aircraft was a post-World War II Swiss trainer aircraft, the Pilatus P-2
.
, the drug-dealing ex-Nazi
villain flies this jet fighter aircraft, which was supposedly developed by the Germans towards the end of World War II
. It was in reality a Scaled Composites
ARES
. Outside the film, the Me 263
was a prototype advanced version of the rocket-powered Me 163.
's novel Warrior Class. The aircraft is designed with a forward swept wing and an extremely thin fuselage
section.
The aircraft uses an internal bomb bay to carry laser-guided bombs and R-27 missiles. It houses four R-60
missiles in the leading edge
of the wings; however, these are omitted due to corrosion of the wing. The crew of two consists of a pilot and a weapons operator.
Bought by oil broker Pavel Kazakov, the aircraft is used to influence his East European neighbors, almost starting a number of conflicts. The aircraft finally turned in on USAF forces in Turkey
. Fortunately, the chief designer sent the aircraft's heat signature to the USAF in Turkey
allowing Patrick McLanahan and his team of EB-1C Vampire II to destroy it.
The aircraft resembles a VF-9 Cutlass
, where a pair of them escort the first commercial flight between Alaska
and the Soviet Union
. It is described as a large swing-wing fighter capable of 2736 km/H (1700 m/H) with a maximum altitude of one hundred thousand feet.
script) have appeared in several different unrelated works. These fictional aircraft have been independently created and the aircraft share nothing but a name, although it has also often even been given the NATO reporting name
Finback. In reality this codename has now been assigned to the Shenyang J-8
, a Chinese
interceptor-fighter. The designation "MiG-28" is inconsistent with the practice of aircraft designed by the Mikoyan
design bureau (but see the Mig-8 "Utka"), and unusual but not otherwise inconsistent with that of the Soviet military. (Even number fighters include the Su-24, a strike-fighter, and the Tu-28 interceptor.)
The first instance of a "MiG-28" was in the 1978 Quiller
novel The Sinkiang Executive written by Adam Hall
. Referred to in the work as the MiG-28D (NATO code
"Finback"), it was an aircraft that resembled a somewhat modified MiG-25
, but with sharper air intakes and swept wings.
In the 1986 film Top Gun
, Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise
) squared off against MiG-28s with no NATO reporting name and of unspecified nationality. These were nothing more than American
Northrop F-5s, which at the time were being used as aggressor aircraft
for dissimilar air combat training
at the real TOPGUN seminar (now known as the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School
). The F-5s "acting" as MiG-28s were painted flat black to indicate their villainous status, and retained those paint jobs after production closed. The paint also increased the aircraft's visibility, a plus for filmmaking. The nation flying these MiG-28s is not specified whatsoever in the film but assumed to be the Soviet Union
or another Communist state; audio commentary on the film's Special-Edition DVD release states that they were originally intended to be North Korea
n. In the script, American pilots are warned that the MiG-28 is armed with the Exocet
, a French-made anti-ship missile
not found in the inventory of Soviet forces. In video games
licensed from the films, the enemy planes are replaced with real Soviet aircraft, the MiG-29 "Fulcrum".
Another MiG-28 is "seen" in the 1988 ABC
television series Supercarrier
. This MiG-28 was a fictional Soviet stealth
fighter. An F-16 fighter in Soviet-style markings was used to "simulate" the Soviet fighter.
; at different times, these hoaxes ranged from nuclear bullets to badgers with naturally formed wheels. As usual, it was denounced in the May issue.
LA-6, developed from captured Nazi technology, "was" a "flying saucer" with jet engine-based thrust vectoring, S/VTOL and high subsonic capability. It was purpose-built at the height of Cold War to combat American B-29 Superfortresses approaching from the North Pole. Its wide dorsal area was armored against any defensive armaments, and carried four twin 37-mm autocannons, allowing it to unleash a deadly barrage from above.
Only a single squadron existed, based on Spitsbergen
. All the work was allegedly stopped after Khruschev began to promote ICBMs and SAMs as all the weapons USSR needed, and all the craft were scuttled into the sea.
The MiG-31 (МиГ-31 in Cyrillic
script), NATO reporting name
"Firefox", is a fictional aircraft appearing in Craig Thomas
' novels Firefox
and Firefox Down
, as well as the Clint Eastwood film
based on the former. Scenes from the cockpit used shots from a F-4 Phantom II and T-38 Talon.
The Firefox is an interceptor aircraft
with stealth
capabilities, to the point that it is invisible to radar. It is powered by two incredibly powerful "Turmansky" (a probable misspelling of Tumansky) turbo-ramjet
engines that permit flight at hypersonic
speeds, but their exhaust gives the Firefox a prominent infrared
signature. The Firefox's most famous feature is its Thought-Controlled
Weapons System, which uses signals from the pilot's brain to target enemies and fire weapons; however, it only responds to commands thought in Russian
. The Firefox's weapons consist of up to four AA-6 Acrid
air-to-air missile
s (modified for thought guidance), two 23 mm cannons, and four Rear Defense Pods on the wings, which fire explosive charges at a pursuing aircraft or missile.
Other capabilities of the Firefox include a 3000 miles (4,828 km) range
and a flight ceiling over 120000 feet (36,576 m). To give the pilot full situational awareness the aircraft also includes a camera system that allows the pilot to see images ahead of, below, and directly behind the aircraft on his console. Mitchell Gant uses this system several times during his flight to keep track of missiles, and other aircraft pursuing him.
Two production prototypes were built before it was to be deployed into active service for the Soviet Air Force
. The first prototype
was stolen by Mitchell Gant
operating on behalf of the Western intelligence community
. The second prototype intercepted Gant and the two aircraft entered into combat with Gant destroying his adversary.
In the novel Firefox Down
, it is revealed the remaining prototype's fuel lines were ruptured in the dogfight that concluded the previous novel and the aircraft crash-lands in Finland
. One of the plot lines of Firefox Down is the race between the Soviets and Western Intelligence to recover the aircraft submerged in a frozen Finnish lake.
The Firefox's appearance differs between the first novel and film. The version in the novel resembles a MiG-25 "Foxbat"
, much like the real Mikoyan MiG-31
"Foxhound". The Firefox's distinctive appearance also appears to have been the inspiration for the F-200 Efreet fighter in the video game U.N. Squadron
.
In the Battlefield 2 Mod, Allied Intent Xtended 2 (AIX2), the The MiG-31 is available on map "Operation Greasy Mullet". The Middle East Coalition forces (MEC) have the MiG-31 Firefox as their aircraft. U.S. Forces have the F-12A (Interceptor prototype of the SR-71 Blackbird). Because of the extreme speeds of the aircraft in game, the normal view distance of the graphics is increased from 600 meters to 2,500 meters. This can cause some "lag" on older systems without newer graphic cards for rendering.
Ferret E) is a fictional stealth aircraft produced in kit form by Italian
model
manufacturer Italeri
, in co-operation with American
model company Testors. The kit was a follow-up to Testors' highly successful (and fictional) "F-19
Stealth
" model kit.
The MiG-37 is a stealth fighter designed using advances in technology from the Soviet Union's space and aviation programs as a reaction to the American F-19
stealth project.
production of Joe 90
. It is a 21st century Russian air-superiority fighter, and the most advanced of its time. The MiG-242 could be launched from a special zero-zero launch ramp. This ramp could be deployed on Russian air bases and would elevate 45 degrees and catapult the aircraft via the use of an electromagnetic rail catapult, while the fighter engaged full afterburners.
The aircraft was discovered to have variable wing geometry and when swept, the wings met up with the tail to form a delta. This offered the MiG-242 both excellent low speed maneuverability and high Mach speed. Maximum speed was 3,600 km/h (Mach 3) at 11,500 metres and was powered by two variable-cycle turbine/ram jet engines. These operated as jet turbines up to Mach 2.5, and as ramjets from Mach 2.1 and up.
The key to its versatility was the weapons system, two pods mounted ventrally under the fuselage. These pods could be configured with a variety of weapons, from air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles plus sensor equipment, free-fall bombs and other ordnance. These could be quickly removed and replaced to give the MiG-242 exceptional turn-around times. In the nose were mounted two 30 mm cannon for close range fighting and two ECM pods were mounted in the twin tails.
The models that were actually used for filming the episodes were modified Angel Interceptors, from Anderson's previous series, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
.
. It was based on the Northrop Grumman
F-14 Tomcat
with three jet engines and V/STOL
capabilities.
fighter that appears in the anime
film Porco Rosso
, directed by Hayao Miyazaki
.
While the plane depicted in the film never existed, Savoia
was an actual Italian aircraft maker which produced a considerable number of flying boats in the 1920s, during which the film is set. An actual Savoia S.21 even existed, though the fictional one does not closely resemble it—the Cant.Z 501 "Seagull"
is probably the closest real-life match. As a matter of fact, Hayao Miyazaki is said to have drawn his Savoia S.21 from his childhood memories of Macchi M.33
.
The S.21 was a custom-built fighter seaplane with a single parasol wing, above which was mounted a single engine nacelle. It had a flying-boat hull and outrigger floats, and carried two machine guns in the nose. In the film, there are two versions of the S.21. The initial version was powered by an Isotta-Fraschini Asso liquid-cooled V-12 engine; the later version mounted a Fiat A.S.2 "Folgore" V-12 with a modified radiator configuration. In addition to the engine, the new version had a tiny forward cockpit.
In The Age of the Flying Boat, the book on which the film is based, the modified version takes a Rolls-Royce Kestrel
engine. The aircraft was painted bright red with Italian tricolor stripes on the wings and tail.
Specifications
. YF-19 Alpha One is an advanced variable fighter prototype developed by Shinsei Industries as part of Project Super Nova. It led to the development of the VF-19 Excalibur
. The aircraft features a turreted anti-air laser cannon, internal missile launchers, hardpoints, gun pod
, sensor baffling active-stealth system, virtual-environment cockpit, pin-point barrier system, vectored maneuvering thrusters, and swing-wing
design, and is able to reach escape velocity from an Earth-sized planet. It is also one of the few variable fighters developed to use the Hyperspace Fold FAST Packs.
. YF-21 Omega One is an advanced variable fighter prototype developed by General Galaxy as part of Project Super Nova. It led to the development of the VF-22 Sturmvogel II
. The aircraft features laser cannons, internal missile launchers, hardpoints, gun pod
, sensor baffling active-stealth system, brain control system, pin-point barrier system, vectored maneuvering thrusters, and Intelligent Flight Control System
, and is able to reach escape velocity from an Earth-sized planet. It is also one of the few variable fighters developed to use the Hyperspace Fold FAST Packs. It closely resembles to the YF-23 Black Widow II
.
. The Ghost is an advanced unmanned drone that supposed to be the replacement of both the YF-19 & YF-21. But, the artificial intelligence
singing diva Sharon Apple possessed the Ghost just to attack both Isamu Alva Dyson and Guld Goa Bowman. It was destroyed by Guld by sacrificing himself in an aerial combat.
which released in Spring 2008, the fictional F/A-40 representing the main combat aircraft of the Western Coalition, and in fact it appears to be a modified F-22 Raptor in actual environment.
starring William Holden
. The Martin XB-51
starred as the XF-120 in the film.
, starring Humphrey Bogart
film Jet Pilot
starring John Wayne
. The plane used was actually a T-33
.
fighter-bomber in several novels by John Nichol
, who served as a navigator on the real-world Panavia Tornado
around the time of the first Gulf War. Tempest is a clear proxy for Tornado, following the meteorological naming scheme, with both being twin-engined, tandem cockpit aircraft carrying the RAF's designation for a ground-attack type. Both rotate at around 170 knots, have the same emergency checks in response to an engine fire, and have thrust reversers (which are unusual on a fast jet). Although Tempest appears to combine the capabilities of both the fighter and ground-attack variants of Tornado, it carries a GR designation, the RAF's terminology for a ground-attack aircraft. Tempests are described firing (real-world) Skyflash missiles, as in the air-defence variant Tornado F.3, but also flying ground-attack profiles which would not be possible without the GR.4's ground-mapping radar. One novel was concerned with problems, alluded to in at least one other book, with the Tempest's computerised flight control system.
's video games. It was first seen in Tom Clancy's EndWar
, then later in Tom Clancy's HAWX. It was probably developed for the 2018 Bomber
, beating the B-1R, YF-23 and FB-22
. It is a stealthy replacement for the famous A-10 Thunderbolt II
and is armed with ground munitions and 2 GAU-8 Avenger
for close air support.
, but is armed with a laser cannon. It was developed from the Eurofighter Typhoon
, Gripen, and Rafale.
agricultural aircraft.
This product of Sukhoi
is also in EndWar. Like the Razorback, it has missiles, bombs, and a gun, but was developed from the Sukhoi Su-47
.
. The aircraft which are flown by women pilots operate from an airborne aircraft carrier named Cloudbase
. The Angel Interceptor is powered by twin, turbo-jet compressors feeding a single ramjet. It is armed with a cannon firing heat seeking and armor piercing shells and with air-to-air and air-to-ground rocket launchers. It lands by swooping up into a vertical attitude and 'hooks' on to the carrier similarly to the Ryan Vertijet .
's RTS game Red Alert 3, the Allies used Apollo Fighter as an air-superiorty fighter which can fire Vulcan Cannon
at aerial threats. According to the official data, it is originated from Sweden
, and its appearance is identical to Swedish Saab 35 Draken, except for its V/STOL
capabilities.
's Tiberian Sun, Nod can build a kind of advanced fighter called Banshee, which can fire plasma cannons (3 shots per plane) at ground targets.
In Blizzard
's StarCraft II
, Terran can build Banshee fighters, which can temporarily conceal themselves from enemy's naked eyes (inherited from their predecessors Wraith) and fire a volley of rockets at ground enemies also used in halo.
having no conventional air force, the Japanese used Mecha/Jet Tengu as a light air-superiority interceptor and hover amphibious assault walker; its airplane form looks like the F-86 Sabre
, and uses twin cannons against ground and aerial targets.
novel Day of the Cheetah
. It is a heavily modified F-15E Strike Eagle
, bearing a distinct resemblance to the F-15S/MTD
.
novel Day of the Cheetah
. It is a single-engine forward-swept wing fighter similar to the Grumman X-29
; however, it is completely thought-controlled by its pilot through a semi-artificially intelligent
computer called the Advanced Neural Transfer And Response System, or ANTAReS
. It was stolen by its pilot, who had been a KGB
deep cover agent planted into the United States Air Force years earlier; his handlers wished to reverse-engineer the plane and redesignate it the MiG
-39 Zavtra (Russian for "tomorrow.")
unmanned combat air vehicle
featured in the film Green Lantern
. Developed by Ferris Aircraft and presumably named after the F-86 Sabre
and F-100 Super Sabre
, it is nearly undefeatable in aerial combat against human pilots. Initial versions would flame out at altitudes above 50,000 feet.
series of games on the PlayStation 2
console. It is armed with massive bombs, as well as large battleship cannons, however it is vulnerable due to its slow speed.
. The Aurora supercruise
s when attacking, making it immune to ground fire and missiles. Immediately after attacking, the Aurora loses 50% of its speed and is vulnerable to attack. The Aurora carries one very strong bomb. The Aurora Alpha in the expansion pack Zero Hour, usable by the USA Superweapon General and replacing the common Aurora, is loaded with thermobaric munitions instead. The third-party New Tech Mod for Zero Hour equips the Aurora Alpha with tactical nukes. Auroras can be recognized from their white color and ogee delta wings.
In the PC computer game "Jane's fighters anthology", the Aurora represents a Mach 4+ delta-wing reconnaissance aircraft, the successor of the SR-71 Blackbird.
in the film Broken Arrow
. It is more streamlined than the B-2 Spirit and has supersonic capability.
A B-3 is also implemented in the game Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour. If one looks closely at an awkward angle at the plane's model in the World Builder tool, "B-3" is clearly visible.
The B3 is also humorously referred to repeatedly in the film Wag the Dog
, when the President of the United States
fakes a war to get re-elected.
. It is said to be powered by a plutonium
core. The plutonium core powers its stealth
mechanism. The Silhouette is able to become invisible not only to radar, but to the human eye. The stealth mechanism on the Silhouette is said to work by distorting the air around the aircraft. All other features of the Silhouette run on normal jet fuel.
The Silhouette also has VTOL
capability thanks to retro-firing jets on its underside, as well as multiple-launch BVR
air-to-air and air-to-ground missile
capability, with a range of 2000 nautical miles (3,704 km). In the book a code was needed to open the door to get inside the aircraft.
As well as missiles the Silhouette has wing-mounted machine-guns controlled by the gunner for armament. The plane has a two-person cockpit – the pilot, who sits in a seat forward and to the right of the cockpit, and the gunner/radar operator, who sits above and to the left of the pilot. In the book, people entering the plane are required to open the main door using a code and step inside the missile bay, before going forward into the cockpit.
It is said to have been built in 1979, and was apparently the losing competitor in the B-2
stealth bomber project.
long range bomber aircraft in John Grisham
's novel The Associate (novel)
. It is designed to skip
on the edge of the atmosphere at Mach
10 and reach the opposite side of the Earth within one hour.
's novel Battle Born, the EB-1C is an advanced variant of the B-1 Lancer
. Originally named after the Megafortress, it was renamed the Vampire in Air Battle Force. It differs from the real B-1 in that its wings are always swept all the way back, the tail is smaller and lacks the horizontal stabilizer, and it utilizes new "Mission Adaptive Skin" that works off of micro-hydraulics to affect the shape of the Vampire's wings in-flight. This allows to create lift and drag much more smoothly than harder control flaps.
Unlike the Megafortress
, the Vampire can be run via remote control, from pilots and engineers on the ground. These are referred to as Virtual Aircraft Commanders and Mission Commanders. However, both real and virtual pilots, both on the ground and in the cockpit, can run the plane at the same time. Virtual pilots can take off, land, even refuel from their virtual consoles. The Vampire is also used as a "mothership" for FlightHawk or StealthHawk drones. The drones can be both launched and recovered by the Vampire, and even refuel and reload while inside the weapons bay.
has used various modified variants of the B-52 Stratofortress
, which in reality is used by the United States Air Force as their heavy strategic bomber. These variants are usually referred to as the B-52 Megafortress. The Megafortress first appears in Dale Brown's Flight of the Old Dog
and is expanded and upgraded in all his later books. It has all the latest technology (such as an advanced on-board computer and detailed HUD
) and carries all the latest weapons, such as the AIM-7 Sparrow
, AIM-9 Sidewinder
, AIM-120 AMRAAM
, along with various anti-ship missile
s, anti-tank guided missile
s and even more fanciful weapons such as plasma-yield warheads
. It also uses an advanced layout, having a long SST
nose and twin V-type tails. In later books, the eight engines of the B-52A-H are replaced by four larger and more powerful turbofans. Coincidentally, this is an upgrade that has been considered for the real-world B-52H fleet.
In Flight of the Old Dog, the first book in the series, the aircraft is designated the B-52I Megafortress. B-52M Megafortress Plus is later introduced in Day of the Cheetah
and the EB-52 designation is first used in Sky Masters. In reality, the EB-52H (or B-52J) was a planned upgrade to the USAF's current fleet of Stratofortresses, allowing them to act as "stand-off jammers", with jamming pods replacing the B-52's wing-mounted external fuel tank
s.
One final version, the AL-52 Dragon, was introduced in Wings of Fire. The Dragon is an airborne laser platform; the actual laser is a chemical system (a COIL, or chlorine-oxygen-iodine laser). One prototype, however, is refitted with a plasma-pumped solid-state laser (the technology is based on the plasma-yield warheads mentioned above). Both Dragon variants are devastating against aerial targets; however, the plasma-pumped laser's sheer power makes it effective against surface targets as well. Later on in the series, the plasma-pumped solid state laser replaces the COIL laser on all standard AL-52's.
and Russian equivalents to American weapons such as the AIM-120
and Stinger
missiles.
The Fi-170 is developed at the Fiskious institute in Lithuania
and is stolen by a team of commando
s led by pilot-hero Patrick McLanahan, who also rescue Dave Luger the same night. The Fi-170 is flown to an undisclosed location in Scotland
after destroying multiple enemy targets in Belarus
. The Fi-170 is analyzed and dismantled in Scotland having been found to be no better than a Russian copy of the EB-52.
The Fi-170 appears in the book Warrior Class as the Metyor Mt-179 with a forward-swept wing
and more advanced avionics.
, usually piloted by Suzanne "Daphne" Wagner and John "Wizard" Terrence with a five person crew of specialists aboard.
. It is armed with nuclear weapons, as well as heavy anti-air cannons. It is also capable of launching fighters such as the F-22.
. What differentiates this from other bombers is that the Vertigo uses high-powered active camouflage to get close to the target, drop its payload (a single high-powered bomb) then go into hiding again. In the event that it is spotted mid-flight, the Vertigo has significant armor and a tail gunner, though it still doesn't stand a chance against air superiority fighters, hence the camouflage. Dropping the bomb breaks the energy field and reveals the bomber until the crew can reactivate it; enemy AA buildings can see through the camouflage as well.
The Armageddon is a heavy bomber used for delivering heavier ordnance like cluster bombs loaded with landmines. Unlike the Vertigo, it doesn't use camouflage; rather, it relies on speed and armor to reach the target.
for Playstation
1 and SEGA Saturn
. The AH-69 could hold an absurd amount of weaponry including multi-purpose air-to-air/air-to-ground missiles that could lock onto and destroy any target the player was able to lock onto, and tactical nukes. The Mohawk resembles a UH-1 Iroquois
from the front. Its tail is some-what of a hybrid between a V-22 Osprey's and KA-31 Kamov's. For such a large helicopter, it is nimble and exceptionally quick. Its missions include search and destroy, collecting and hostage rescue. There doesn't seem to be a limit to the amount of passengers the AH-69 can hold.
released by Core design in 1991. The AH-73M seems to be based on the AH-64 Apache
, but with more weapons and more advanced technology. A typical loadout for the AH-73 in the game is 16 Hellfire
-like missiles, 76 unguided rockets, 8 Stinger
-like air-to-air missiles and a cannon with unlimited ammunition.
and Core
's Thunderstrike: Operation Phoenix game. It has weapons similar to that of the Apache, yet looks more in appearance to an RAH66 Commanche. The helicopter has fire control radar to distinguish friend from foe, and also gets data fed to it via AWACS. It is armed with a 30 mm cannon, missiles based on the Hellfire that allow it to attack both ground and air targets, and rockets.
, the Blackfoot is a fast, highly maneuverable helicopter used by the elite American
troops, the Joint Strike Force. It is armed with a 30 mm chain gun
and Hydra 70
unguided rockets, which can be augmented by AGM-169 Joint Common Missiles . Developed from the cancelled RAH-66 Comanche
, it can engage other helicopters in air-to-air combat, but is not very effective, and is extremely vulnerable to fighter aircraft
.
is the star of a 1984 TV series
of the same name. It is an attack helicopter that is capable of supersonic
flight, has stealth capabilities and carries multiple retractable anti-armor, personnel and aircraft weaponry. During the run of the series, a second prototype, codename Red Wolf was developed. Its capabilities rivaled Airwolf's but included a laser weapon as well.
The Airwolf helicopters used in the series were modified Bell 222
's.
and TV series
of the same name. The helicopter is armed with a powerful head-tracked gatling gun in the nose, a whisper mode which makes it quiet and surveillance equipment like sensitive microphones (capable of recording a conversation inside a building with the helicopter hovering outside) and an infrared camera. The helicopter used in the film is a Aérospatiale Gazelle
with a new nose section and faux canopy and wings bolted on. In the film it has a 2-man crew, but can still be effectively operated by a lone pilot. The helicopter was ultimately destroyed after its pilot succeeded in uncovering a group of subversive conspirators operating illegally within the United States Department of Justice
that would also have embroiled the Los Angeles Police Department
had it remained undetected.
enemy units. The effect is temporary. Frozen units are easily disintegrated with a single shot. Shrunken units are faster but more fragile; they take more damage and deal less damage.
missiles, and rockets. It is a hydrogen vehicle
that was developed from the Eurocopter Tiger
. Unlike its American counterpart, the AH-80, the PAH-6 isn't good for aerial warfare
, and it doesn't last very long.
, the PLA
can build a huge transport helicopter called Helix
, but it looks bigger than real Helix; it has a small cannon by default and later upgrade with gattling cannon, bunker, speaker tower, and napalm (Nuke General Tsing Si Tao can upgrade with tactical nuke, but Infantry General Shin Fai can only upgrade with bunker).
universe, the Soviets used Hind as the backbone of their air power, can fire cannon against enemy ground targets; in Red Alert 2, its successor Siege Chopper has an additional function that using with a long-range cannon while landing; in Red Alert 3; it renamed into Twinblade, keeping its ability of firing rocket pods and cannon, but it can also carry 5 infantry or a tank.
. It was armed with four nose-mounted guns and two missile pods. It was shot down by Airwolf during a dogfight. The HX-1 was based on the Sikorsky S-76
.
, the Consortium faction operates this dedicated stealth hunter-killer helicopter. Armed with deadly air-to-air missiles, the Ka-58 is used to establish local air superiority by destroying enemy helicopters and even fast-flying jet bombers. The Russian model manufacturer Zvezda also makes a model of the Black Ghost in 1/72 scale. Revell also makes a Ka-58 model in 1/72 scale.
Howler, the Ka-65 is an aggressive-looking, fearsome helicopter used by the Spetsnaz
. It is based on the Kamov Ka-50
. Shown in EndWar, it is armed with a 30 mm gun, rockets and guided missiles. It is often shown with a tiger face painted on the nose. Unlike its American and European counterparts, it can fight quite well air-to-air without getting shredded by enemy helicopters.
of unspecified origin that appears in the 1990 film Fire Birds
. At least one of the type was shown being used by a South American drug cartel
and piloted by highly skilled mercenaries, along with a pair of Saab Draken fighters
. The Scorpion has superior agility and speed compared to most other helicopters, notably the AH-1 Cobra
and the UH-60 Black Hawk, easily destroying the aforementioned helicopters. Armed with unguided rocket
s and machine guns, it is roughly equal in air combat capabilities to the AH-64 Apache
.
The real helicopter used for the film was a Hughes H-6
derivative, probably a Boeing
MD500 Defender
. It was fitted with weapon pods and a nose mounted scope.
, and first appears in the Strike
series of video games by Electronic Arts
, specifically Soviet Strike and Nuclear Strike. Designed for special operations, the Super Apache serves as the player's primary vehicle.
The Super Apache looks identical to its real-world counterpart apart from the tail, which looks like it was based on the RAH-66 Comanche
although the Super Apache has a tail in Soviet Strike and Nuclear Strike (this is slightly strange because the RAH-66 was built in 1995, three years after Desert Strike). It is a sophisticated two-seat attack helicopter armed with advanced electronics and air-ground weapons. However, to aid gameplay, there are some notable enhancements:
Remarkably, the Super Apache appears to lack the fire control Radar
seen on the AH-64D Longbow. Instead, it relies on sophisticated communications systems (called Strike-Net) and unseen assets such as AWACS and Satellite
imagery.
There is also a navalized variant called the Sea Apache, capable of carrying naval mines. It can be deployed from Sea Shadow-type warships.
has no individual air force, but using a bipedal walker merged with helicopter's appearance named Striker-VX, which is using missile SAM while landing or AGM while flying.
, the V-44 is the large, four rotors-propelled transport helicopter of the United States' Task Force Talon. Its cargo bay can transport up to eight infantry units or two vehicles ; it can also function as a limited gunship against enemy infantry, being equipped with nose-mounted twin Gatling machine-guns
. An stealth upgrade is available for the V-44, making the aircraft invisible until opening fire or being detected by an enemy recon unit.
, both military and civilian versions. They have the ability to function as helicopters or jets depending on the mission. Similar in function to the real life Sikorsky X-Wing or the more recent Eurocopter X3
, but similar in styling to the RAH-66 Comanche
.
of the Indiana Jones
saga. It is a flying wing
airplane with two pusher-propellor engines and armed with two forward-firing cannons and an aft machine gun turret. In the film it is utilized by the forces of Nazi Germany
for transporting the Ark of the Covenant
from Egypt
to Berlin
. However the airplane is destroyed during a fight between Indiana Jones and Nazi forces in Egypt. The company Blohm & Voss is a real aircraft company that produced aircraft for Nazi Germany.
portrayed in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
of the Indiana Jones
saga. It appears to be nearly visibly identical to the Hindenburg except it has a structure at the bottom for attaching and carrying a small airplane with it, similar to the American dirigibles Akron and Macon.
, two airborne weapons systems are used to counter meteorite clusters which threaten the survival of Earth.
The earlier "Stratos" series is a large aircraft, operated by the civilian Astro-crisis Management Organization. Manned by a flight crew of four, it carries a single anti-meteorite warhead, and is capable of ascending to the outer stratosphere after taking off from conventional runways. It is explained by one of the anime's main characters that the Stratos-series aircraft were retired due to their high cost and hazardous operating conditions. The only surviving example, "Stratos Zero", exists in a deteriorated state at Shimojijima Air Base in Japan.
The Stratos is almost identical in general appearance to the Convair B-58 Hustler strategic bomber of the late 1950s. However, instead of the Hustler's engine arrangement of two turbojets under each wing, mounted in separate nacelles, the Stratos uses two turbines mounted in the rear section of its fuselage. For upper stratospheric operations, the turbines are supplemented by an "RD 204" rocket motor, mounted at the base of the vertical rudder in the same manner as the Lockheed NF-104A
.
By the end of the first series, Stratos Zero is restored to operating condition, and re-designated "Stratos 4".
The TSR-2MS (for "Meteor Sweeper") is said to be a direct replacement for the Stratos series aircraft, acting as surface backup for Trident missile-carrying shuttles based aboard satellites in Earth orbit.
The TSR-2MS appears to be a fictional development of the TSR-2 tactical strike bomber developed by British Aircraft Corporation
in the early 1960s.
TSR-2MS is described as a Mach 3-capable light aircraft crewed by a pilot and navigator, powered by a similar engine arrangement and carrying similar armament to the Stratos series. For takeoff, the TSR is assisted by two RATO (Rocket-assisted takeoff) modules, and is launched in a ZeLL condition. ZeLL or Zero Length Launch, was tested by both NATO and the USSR during the cold War for a quick way to launch aircraft.
The TSR has a number of interesting technical features: the engine air intakes feature fixed shock cones which are supplemented by additional air-intake doors behind the intake lips and four-petal airbrakes similar to those on the Republic F-105 Thunderchief. The seating configuration is unusual for a high-performance aircraft, with the pilot and navigator lying on tandem "couches" in a semi-prone position (which seems designed more to showcase the shapeliness of its predominantly female pilots.)
In one episode, a TSR-2MS makes an emergency landing on Guam. An arrestor hook (typical of those equipping naval carrier-based fighter aircraft) is used to halt the plane. Many Western Combat aircraft have some sort of emergency arrestor hook, however neither the aircraft nor the hook are carrier capable and thus should not convince the viewer that the hook makes the aircraft carrier capable.
, the Cheyenne dropship is the transport vehicle used to ferry the marines and their APC from orbit to the planet's surface.
these unmanned vehicles (Aerial Hunter-Killer and Tank Hunter-Killer) are a family of combat robotics used by Skynet to wipe out survivors of a nuclear holocaust. In the Terminator franchise
, they have branched into multiple designs of varying sizes and purposes. What all Aerial HK share is that their jet engines are mounted on rotating pylons on the end of the center-mounted wing, allowing vertical takeoff and landing, hovering, and rotation in place while having the speed of a jet aircraft. The basic (as depicted in The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day) HK has a pair of engines (with a smaller third engine mounted on the tail in Terminator 3), a large plasma cannon mounted under the nose (variants in Terminator Salvation had twin cannons), and is used for air-to-ground combat (although a capable fighter too). Other variations include smaller models that can navigate inside buildings, large four-engine transport or heavy bomber models, early models armed with conventional guns, and the revised models seen in Terminator 3 and Terminator: Salvation. A nearly identical craft appears in the unrelated TV series Starhunter
(2000–2001) as a type of human-piloted gunship.
series of games. I is a ducted-fan hybrid craft which resembles the Moller Skycar. Most Orca models are armed with anti-tank missiles, though several variants, including a bomber, a tactical strike fighter, several dropships, and a large command vessel also exist. One of the later iterations also doubles as a scouting unit because its pulse scanners are capable of disrupting active camouflage technology. The latest Orcas are capable of acting as both air-to-ground strike gunships and fighters.
The design was partially used by the Brotherhod of Nod to create the Venom patrol craft, a VTOL with extremely sophisticated sensors, a machine gun and an underside mirror for directing long-range energy weapon fire. Unlike most Orcas, Venoms can also act as air superiority units if needed.
series of video games, set on an alternate Earth, is well-equipped with modern fighter jets of several nations (fully licensed by their actual manufacturers), as well as several aircraft designed specifically for the game series.
.
A Simoun requires two pilots to lift-off
and steer in the air and, moreover, both of them must have not yet chosen their permanent sex (refer to background for explanation), since having done so permanently disqualifies a person from further piloting. Because of its sacred status in Simulacrum, only young priestesses of the Tempus Spatium faith are recruited as Simoun pilots and granted the title .
Originally, Simouns were produced by Simuracrum nation's engineers and designers for ceremonial craft pray to Goddess "Temps-Spatium" (of their religion).
But, due to the main lift "Helical Motor", it was envied by other nations and a war broke out to obtain that technology. Thus, Simouns are armed with minigun
s and Ri Mājon
, and appear as enormous luminous glyph
s in the sky, which, once completed, conjure magical effects of tremendous power.
The Similes are scaled-down simple model versions of Simouns, which were mainly used for training. But with the war raging, Simile-Simouns were armed with machine guns or miniguns and had single and dual cockpit configurations. They have similar designs, but with only a single, and somewhat, simpler Helical Motor.
used by the X-Men is a modified SR-71 Blackbird. The Blackbird is depicted as having vertical takeoff
capability, which the actual SR-71 does not. It has also been modified to carry several passengers. After the original X-Men rejoined the team Professor Xavier commissioned Forge to build two new planes, still dubbed Blackbirds but no longer looking like the SR-71.
novel Poseidon's Shadow, published by Scribner
in 1979, Dell
and New English Library
in 1980 – amongst the earliest known instances of explicit reference to stealth technology.
, an aircraft designer by background, often included fictional aircraft in his novels. These include:
These were discussed at length in 2004 on the Nevil Shute Norway Foundation Discussion Board at:-
http://www.nevilshute.org/Discus/messages/15/46.html?1116799539
series. It could carry up to 10 troops inside, including a Mongoose ATV-like vehicle. The Pelican also can carry a Scorpion armored tank or a Warthog light scout vehicle or a troop carrying vehicle with a magnetic holder. It is armed with or without a 40mm gatling gun and 2 missile pods, all of which are operated by the pilot.
series. It is a single-seat VTOL
aircraft, armed with 2 gatling guns and 2 missile pods. It can carry 2 soldiers on its jumpseats, and is used for close air support and air to air roles.
series. It's a single-seat that carries up five troops. Normally (in multiplayer) armed with door-mounted machine guns, but in Campaign it always has a chin-mounted chaingun, and its doorguns can be absent or replaced with automatic grenade launchers and machine guns.
series. Although considered an average space interceptor within the franchise, it has the size (and shape) of a B-2 Spirit
. Armed with 105 and 120 mm cannons.
In Resistance: Retribution, it has shown to be used by the Maquis as well.
In the first cutscene, it was shown to be used for paratrooper insertion at a high altitude over Rotterdam.
developed a massive robotic vessel called Giga Fortress, can move on water or fly in the sky. Players must pay $6,300 to build a Giga Fortress Nanocore from Imperial Docks
then deploying on water, and it must take a bit of time to unpack into a fully assembled Giga Fortress. When deployed, the Giga Fortress on the sea can fire missiles and cannons; when it flies to the sky, it can launch a devastating laser cannon can cause lethal damages in a line.
MiG-37
Fiction
Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...
, in its various media, but do not exist in the real world. These aircraft may be conjectured variants of real-world aircraft or they may be completely fabricated by the author.
XF-18 Scavenger
The XF-18 Scavenger is a highly capable all-weather reconnaissance plane described in Michael CrichtonMichael Crichton
John Michael Crichton , best known as Michael Crichton, was an American best-selling author, producer, director, and screenwriter, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller genres. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and many have been adapted...
's novel The Andromeda Strain
The Andromeda Strain
The Andromeda Strain , by Michael Crichton, is a techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism that rapidly and fatally clots human blood, while in other people inducing insanity...
.
F-19 Stealth
In the 1980s, a gap appeared in the designation system1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system
The 1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system is a unified designation system introduced by the United States Department of Defense on 18 September 1962 for all the U.S. military aircraft. Prior to this date, each armed service used their own nomenclature system...
for U.S. military aircraft, between the F/A-18 Hornet
F/A-18 Hornet
The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is a supersonic, all-weather carrier-capable multirole fighter jet, designed to dogfight and attack ground targets . Designed by McDonnell Douglas and Northrop, the F/A-18 was derived from the latter's YF-17 in the 1970s for use by the United States Navy and...
and the F-20 Tigershark
F-20 Tigershark
The Northrop F-20 Tigershark was a privately-financed light fighter, designed and built by Northrop. Its development began in 1975 as a further evolution of Northrop's F-5E Tiger II, featuring a new engine that greatly improved overall performance, and a modern avionics suite including a powerful...
. This unseen F-19 was speculated to be a top-secret stealth fighter
Stealth aircraft
Stealth aircraft are aircraft that use stealth technology to avoid detection by employing a combination of features to interfere with radar as well as reduce visibility in the infrared, visual, audio, and radio frequency spectrum. Development of stealth technology likely began in Germany during...
in U.S. service. Various depictions of F-19s have since appeared in fictional works, as well as in the usually accurate Jane's
Jane's Information Group
Jane's Information Group is a publishing company specializing in transportation and military topics.-History:It was founded by Fred T...
All the World's Aircraft
Jane's All the World's Aircraft
Jane's All the World's Aircraft is an aviation annual publication founded by Fred T. Jane in 1909. It is published by Jane's Information Group....
publication (as the Lockheed
Lockheed Corporation
The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company. Lockheed was founded in 1912 and later merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995.-Origins:...
RF-19 and XST).
American model airplane manufacturers Testors and Monogram have both released hypothetical model kits of the F-19, the former quickly becoming the best-selling model airplane kit ever. Ironically, the Testors F-19 model bore no resemblance to the F-117, having a sweeping, streamlined appearance as opposed to the sharp, angular design of the Nighthawk.
The Testors design was also the basis for F-19 Stealth Fighter
F-19 Stealth Fighter
F-19 Stealth Fighter is a combat flight simulator released in 1988 and 1990 by MicroProse, featuring a fictional United States military aircraft...
, a flight simulation program released by Microprose
MicroProse
MicroProse was a video game publisher and developer, founded by Wild Bill Stealey and Sid Meier in 1982 as Microprose Software. In 1993, the company became a subsidiary of Spectrum HoloByte and has remained a subsidiary or brand name under several other corporations since...
in the late 1980s. Able to run on several different platforms, the game offered users both air-to-air and ground-attack missions in several theaters of operation – from Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
and Libya
Libya
Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
to the North Cape
North Cape
North Cape may refer to:*North Cape, Prince Edward Island*North Cape, New Zealand*North Cape, Norway, also known as Nordkapp*North Cape, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community...
of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
. Although based on a fictitious design, the game posed many challenges to players, including reduced stealth capability when banking or near radar sites, or when the payload bay doors were open. A sequel, Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0
Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0
Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0 is the 1991 sequel to the Cold War flight simulator video game F-19 Stealth Fighter.The original PC game was updated with a corrected aircraft model once the F-117 Nighthawk was declassified and with 256-color VGA graphics instead of the original's 16-color...
was released in 1991, after the F-117 was first publicly revealed. Consequently, it featured an aircraft much closer in appearance to the F-117. Users were offered a choice between 2 similar looking aircraft, one having fewer payload bays and being more realistic in handling.
The F-19A Ghostrider, which shares the same physical characteristics as the Revell
Revell
Revell is the brand name today of two manufacturers of scale plastic models. The original US company merged with another, Monogram, but now trades only under the Revell name. European Revell Germany separated from the US company in 2006.-Early history:...
model kit, appears in Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising
Red Storm Rising
Red Storm Rising is a 1986 techno-thriller novel by Tom Clancy and Larry Bond about a Third World War in Europe between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces, set around the mid-1980s...
, where an entire chapter is devoted to its exploits ('The Frisbees of Dreamland'). The stealth attack fighters, nicknamed 'Frisbees' by their pilots in reference to their smooth, curved shape, use AIM-9 Sidewinder infrared-guided air-to-air missiles to shoot down Russian IL-76 Mainstay
Beriev A-50
|-See also:Related development:Ilyushin Il-76, KJ-2000Comparable aircraft:E-3 Sentry-External links:* * * * * *...
airborne early warning aircraft, thus allowing NATO fighters to penetrate Russian-controlled areas of Germany and bomb the Soviet forces massing there. To further facilitate the attack, the F-19s use nose-mounted lasers to illuminate targets for other fighters and bombers dropping laser-guided bombs.
There are many theories as to why no publicly known aircraft has been designated F-19. One theory claims that Northrop
Northrop Corporation
Northrop Corporation was a leading United States aircraft manufacturer from its formation in 1939 until its merger with Grumman to form Northrop Grumman in 1994. The company is known for its development of the flying wing design, although only a few of these have entered service.-History:Jack...
requested to skip the number for their F-20 Tigershark in order to avoid confusion with the MiG-19 on the export market. Although there may be an actual F-19 aircraft still unknown to the general public, the designation may very well be an obsolete designation for the F-117 Nighthawk
F-117 Nighthawk
The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk was a single-seat, twin-engine stealth ground-attack aircraft formerly operated by the United States Air Force . The F-117A's first flight was in 1981, and it achieved initial operating capability status in October 1983...
.
XFA-24A Apalis
The XFA-24A Apalis is a single-seat, twin-engine, canardCanard (aeronautics)
In aeronautics, canard is an airframe configuration of fixed-wing aircraft in which the forward surface is smaller than the rearward, the former being known as the "canard", while the latter is the main wing...
-delta wing
Delta wing
The delta wing is a wing planform in the form of a triangle. It is named for its similarity in shape to the Greek uppercase letter delta .-Delta-shaped stabilizers:...
ed strike fighter
Strike fighter
In a current military parlance, a strike fighter is a multi-role combat aircraft designed to operate primarily in the air-to-surface attack role while also incorporating certain performance characteristics of a fighter aircraft. As a category, it is distinct from fighter-bombers...
in Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception
Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception
is a video game for the PlayStation Portable handheld console. It is the seventh installment of the Ace Combat video game series, the first for the PlayStation Portable system, and the second for a portable console. It was released for the United States on October 24, 2006.-Plot:Aurelia is a...
and Ace Combat: Joint Assault
Ace Combat: Joint Assault
Reception to the game has been mixed. GameSpot and IGN stated that the game's story was not as dramatic as those from previous titles, and its saving grace is the co-operative play options and the easy access to new rewards...
. It is capable of accelerating straight upward and carrying high payload. In an air to air configuration it carries AIM-9 Sidewinder
AIM-9 Sidewinder
The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a heat-seeking, short-range, air-to-air missile carried mostly by fighter aircraft and recently, certain gunship helicopters. The missile entered service with United States Air Force in the early 1950s, and variants and upgrades remain in active service with many air forces...
and AIM-120 AMRAAM
AIM-120 AMRAAM
The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM , is a modern beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. Designed with the same form-factor as the previous generation of semi-active guided Sparrow missiles, it is a fire-and-forget...
missiles. It may also carry Mark 82 bomb
Mark 82 bomb
The Mark 82 is an unguided, low-drag general-purpose bomb, part of the U.S. Mark 80 series. The explosive filling is tritonal.-Development and deployment:...
s and Maverick missiles. The plane takes its name from Apalis
Apalis
The apalises are small passerine birds belonging to the genus Apalis. They are found in forest, woodlands and scrub across most parts of sub-Saharan Africa. They are slender birds with long tails and have a slender bill for catching insects. They are typically brown, grey or green above and several...
, a genus of songbirds.
F/A-37 Talon
Stealth (film)
Stealth is a 2005 American science fiction action film starring Jessica Biel, Josh Lucas, Jamie Foxx, and Sam Shepard. The film was directed by Rob Cohen, director of The Fast and the Furious and xXx....
. In the film's fictional world, the only Talons are operating as a three-plane flight
Flight
Flight is the process by which an object moves either through an atmosphere or beyond it by generating lift or propulsive thrust, or aerostatically using buoyancy, or by simple ballistic movement....
for field evaluation, from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
USS Abraham Lincoln , is the fifth Nimitz-class supercarrier in the United States Navy. She is the second Navy ship named after former president Abraham Lincoln. Her home port is Everett, Washington.-Construction:...
(although actually filmed on the USS Carl Vinson
USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
The USS Carl Vinson is the third United States Navy Nimitz class supercarrier and is named after Carl Vinson, a Congressman from Georgia. Carl Vinson's callsign is "Gold Eagle". It played host to the first NCAA basketball game on an aircraft carrier on 11/11/11 between the University of North...
).
The Talon is capable of hypersonic flight with two combined Pulse Detonation/Scramjet engines. As the film's title suggests, the Talon has stealth capability, along with movable, forward sweep, switchblade wings, an internal cannon for close-in fights, and an internal rotary launcher with a wide variety of ordnance, including GAU-12 Equalizer
GAU-12 Equalizer
The General Dynamics GAU-12/U Equalizer is a five-barrel 25 mm Gatling gun-style rotary cannon. The GAU-12/U is used by the United States, Italy and Spain, which mount the weapon in their fighter jets such as the AV-8B Harrier II, airborne gunships such as the Lockheed AC-130, and land-based...
, AIM-9 Sidewinder
AIM-9 Sidewinder
The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a heat-seeking, short-range, air-to-air missile carried mostly by fighter aircraft and recently, certain gunship helicopters. The missile entered service with United States Air Force in the early 1950s, and variants and upgrades remain in active service with many air forces...
air-to-air missile
Air-to-air missile
An air-to-air missile is a missile fired from an aircraft for the purpose of destroying another aircraft. AAMs are typically powered by one or more rocket motors, usually solid fuelled but sometimes liquid fuelled...
s, AGM-88 HARM
AGM-88 HARM
The AGM-88 High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile is a tactical, air-to-surface missile designed to home in on electronic transmissions coming from surface-to-air radar systems. It was originally developed by Texas Instruments as a replacement for the AGM-45 Shrike and AGM-78 Standard ARM system...
anti-radiation missile
Anti-radiation missile
An anti-radiation missile is a missile which is designed to detect and home on an enemy radio emission source. Typically these are designed for use against an enemy radar, although jammers and even radios used for communication can also be targeted in this manner.- Air-to-Ground :Most ARM designs...
s, AGM-130
AGM-130
The AGM-130 is a missile developed by the United States of America.-Overview:The AGM-130 is a powered air-to-surface missile designed for strikes at long range against various targets...
C air-to-surface missiles (called "Blue Ferret" in the film), FAEs, or fuel air explosives, of an unknown variety, and Truncheon implosion bombs.
It has a Common Integrated Processor (CIP), a central "brain" capable of making damage assessments, not just on enemy forces, but on collateral and civilian casualties as well. The CIP can make complex calculations, like estimating nuclear fallout, or projecting odds of survival.
The Talon is capable of precise attacks with minimal destruction. Each pilot has a view-screen for each wingman. Controls are streamlined; the computer communicates through voice and projection displays. The Talons had transponders that directly linked with the pilots homebase or a carrier's advanced flight center. The Talon has a self-destruct
Self-destruct
A self-destruct is a mechanism which causes a device to destroy itself under a predefined set of circumstances.Self-destruct mechanisms are also found on devices and systems where malfunction could endanger large numbers of people...
system in case of system failure.
F/A-37 unique switch-wing design closely resembles patent #5,984,231 for "Aircraft with variable forward-sweep wing", issued to Northrop Grumman Corporation in 1999. This patent caused a wave of rumors about actual aircraft build with that design, with fictional name "Switchblade
Northrop Switchblade
The Northrop "Switchblade" is a concept fighter jet which is a potential development of a utility patent filed by Grumman in November 1999.-Design and development:...
", that was publicized in November 2000 issue of Popular Science magazine. Moreover, according to aerospace journalist Steve Douglass, Northrop Grumman was one of the technical advisors for the Stealth film. Yet another plane sharing design characteristics with the Talon is the VF-19 Excalibur
VF-19 Excalibur
The VF-19 Excalibur is a fictional spacecraft in the anime Macross. It is an Advanced Variable Fighter, the UN Spacy's latest frontline variable fighter to replace the already aging VF-11 Thunderbolt. In the year 2040, a contest was held for the design of the Advanced Variable Fighter. Two...
.
The cinema Talons also can perform a front-to-back flip-over (Pugachev Cobra) while in flight, per the Russian Su 37 Flanker-F. However, the Talon does it as a complete 360 roll, at high-G.
Technically, the F/A-37 should be called "Talon II", as the name "Talon" has already been assigned to the T-38
T-38 Talon
The Northrop T-38 Talon is a twin-engine supersonic jet trainer. It was the world's first supersonic trainer and is also the most produced. The T-38 remains in service as of 2011 in air forces throughout the world....
trainer aircraft.
The game Empire Earth
Empire Earth
Empire Earth, also known as EE, is a real-time strategy computer game developed by Stainless Steel Studios and released on November 23, 2001. It is the first game in the Empire Earth series...
features a fighter called the Talon in the "Digital Age Epoch". It is almost identical to the F/A-37, although it is a white land-based fighter instead of a black carrier-based one.
Specifications
- Crew: 1 pilot
- Powerplant: 2 × Pulse DetonationPulse detonation engineA pulse detonation engine, or "PDE", is a type of propulsion system that uses detonation waves to combust the fuel and oxidizer mixture. The engine is pulsed because the mixture must be renewed in the combustion chamber between each detonation wave initiated by an ignition source. Theoretically, a...
/ScramjetScramjetA scramjet is a variant of a ramjet airbreathing jet engine in which combustion takes place in supersonic airflow...
engines - range: 4,000 nmi
- Max Speed: MachMach numberMach number is the speed of an object moving through air, or any other fluid substance, divided by the speed of sound as it is in that substance for its particular physical conditions, including those of temperature and pressure...
4+ - Armament: 1 × General Electric M164 Vulcan cannon and a wide assortment of missiles and bombs
F302
The F302 is a fighter-intercepter featured in Stargate SG-1Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1 is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich...
, Stargate Atlantis
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate Atlantis is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. The show was created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper as a spin-off series of Stargate SG-1, which was created by Wright and Jonathan Glassner and was itself...
and other Stargate shows.
The F-302 fighter-interceptor is the production model of the X-302 hyperspace fighter, an air and space superiority vehicle operated by the United States Air Force, the Russian Federation and possibly the People's Republic of China.
Specifications
- Crew: 1 pilot, 1 navigator/co-pilot
- Powerplant: 2 × jet propulsion engines, 2 x aerospike boosters, 1 x rocket booster
- Armament: 2 nose-mounted railguns, 4 wing-mounted space-operable long range air-to-air missiles, tactical nuclear missile (optional)
EDI UCAV
Featured in the film StealthStealth (film)
Stealth is a 2005 American science fiction action film starring Jessica Biel, Josh Lucas, Jamie Foxx, and Sam Shepard. The film was directed by Rob Cohen, director of The Fast and the Furious and xXx....
, the EDI UCAV (Extreme Deep Invader Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle
Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle
An unmanned combat air vehicle or combat drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle that is designed to deliver weapons without an onboard pilot. Currently operational UCAVs are under real-time human control, but future version may enable autonomous operation, for example with pre-programmed route and...
) is a joint program in relation to the F/A-37 Talon. The UCAV EDI (call sign "Tinman") is smaller than the Talon and has a downward-canted delta platform. Despite its designation as a UCAV, it retains a cockpit for maintenance and emergencies. Among the new features are V/STOL
V/STOL
Vertical and/or short take-off and landing is a term used to describe aircraft that are able to take-off or land vertically or on short runways. Vertical takeoff and landing describes craft which do not require runways at all...
capability, a Kermit (metal ceramic) composite exoskeleton, and aeroelastic wings. The engine is described as a Pulse Detonation Engine
Pulse detonation engine
A pulse detonation engine, or "PDE", is a type of propulsion system that uses detonation waves to combust the fuel and oxidizer mixture. The engine is pulsed because the mixture must be renewed in the combustion chamber between each detonation wave initiated by an ignition source. Theoretically, a...
with twin Hybrid Scramjet Turbos fueled by catalyzed A1 methane
Methane
Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula . It is the simplest alkane, the principal component of natural gas, and probably the most abundant organic compound on earth. The relative abundance of methane makes it an attractive fuel...
.
Being unmanned, EDI has shown to disregard G-forces and perform a complete sharp angle, high speed turn. It carries 2 Throat Ripper AAMs, 2 Shock Hammer AGMs, 3 AGM-130
AGM-130
The AGM-130 is a missile developed by the United States of America.-Overview:The AGM-130 is a powered air-to-surface missile designed for strikes at long range against various targets...
s, known as Blue Ferrets, and 2 GAU-12 Equalizer
GAU-12 Equalizer
The General Dynamics GAU-12/U Equalizer is a five-barrel 25 mm Gatling gun-style rotary cannon. The GAU-12/U is used by the United States, Italy and Spain, which mount the weapon in their fighter jets such as the AV-8B Harrier II, airborne gunships such as the Lockheed AC-130, and land-based...
s. It is stated that with that load out EDI could kill 150,000 people or more if it attacks a city. EDI also carries 3 FAE, or fuel air explosives, missiles, though the designation of those missiles, and/or their power is unknown.
EDI's computer is more powerful than a standard Talon's at 10 tera-bits/second. It also has an Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
system with Quantum processing achieved by a neural net. EDI Uses a UNIX
Unix
Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
-Based Computing
Computing
Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and improving computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology...
. In the scene 23 of the film, it is seen that Dr. Orbit uses the command "su", and the terminal root user is "root@edicom". EDI's artificial intelligence goes even further by allowing it to speak freely without being influenced by a human controller. EDI is capable of identifying a target 5 miles (8 km) away or by using a satellite uplink. EDI can identify a human target by fingerprints, voice analysis, retina scan, or by face recognition. The most striking feature of the A.I. was its ability to learn at an exponential rate, and its ability to develop emotional feelings (this was not part of its original design, and developed after a lightning strike).
F-200 Efreet
The F-200 appears in the video game U.N. SquadronU.N. Squadron
U.N. Squadron is a 1989 side scrolling shooting game released for the CPS arcade hardware by Capcom. The game was released in Japan as and is based on the manga series of the same name, featuring the same main characters. Here, their mission is to stop a terrorist group known as Project 4...
. Its shape seems to have mostly been inspired by the – unreal – Mig-31 Firefox. Though this plane is fictional, it could have been misleading, because all the other available planes of the game are real ones, for example the F-20 Tigershark
F-20 Tigershark
The Northrop F-20 Tigershark was a privately-financed light fighter, designed and built by Northrop. Its development began in 1975 as a further evolution of Northrop's F-5E Tiger II, featuring a new engine that greatly improved overall performance, and a modern avionics suite including a powerful...
or the YF-23 Black Widow II
YF-23 Black Widow II
The Northrop YF-23 or Northrop–McDonnell Douglas YF-23 was an American single-seat, twin-engine fighter aircraft designed for the United States Air Force . The design was a finalist in the USAF's Advanced Tactical Fighter competition, battling the Lockheed YF-22 for a production contract...
.
The Efreet is the best playable fighter in this game, which can carry all of the weapons. It is also the most expensive one.
GDI Firehawk
The GDI Firehawk is a VTOL multi-role fighter jet that appears in Command & Conquer 3.The Firehawk uses forward-swept wings with rear-swept winglets and canards. It can be equipped at the airfield with either two anti-surface bombs or four air-to-air missiles (3 and 6 with an upgrade, respectively). It seats two crew, one pilot and one weapons officer. Firehawks can be refitted with special boosters that enable them to go sub-orbital, becoming impervious to anti-aircraft fire during the whole maneuver except reentry.
Black Eagle Jet
The Allied Nations' Black Eagles are high-speed VTOL jets used mostly by The Republic of KoreaKorea
Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is a 2.5D real-time strategy computer game by Westwood Studios, which was released for Microsoft Windows on October 23, 2000 as the follow-up to Command & Conquer: Red Alert. Set in the early 1970s, Red Alert 2 supposedly picks up at the conclusion of the Allied...
.
Black Eagles feature forward-swept wings but otherwise resemble a Harrier Jump Jet
Harrier Jump Jet
The Harrier, informally referred to as the Jump Jet, is a family of British-designed military jet aircraft capable of vertical/short takeoff and landing operations...
. They are loaded with powerful missiles used for engaging surface targets. Black Eagles are usually painted black in reference to their name. They most likely were inspired by the Russian Su-47 Berkut, which is Russian for Golden Eagle.
German fighter (Pilatus P-2) in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
In the film Indiana Jones and the Last CrusadeIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas. It is the third film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Harrison Ford reprises the title role and Sean Connery plays Indiana's father, Henry...
two German fighter planes attack Indiana Jones and is father. The aircraft has two forward-firing machine guns on its fuselage and is able to carry bombs. The aircraft existed at least by 1938, the timeline of the story. The actual aircraft used in the film to portray this aircraft was a post-World War II Swiss trainer aircraft, the Pilatus P-2
Pilatus P-2
|The armed P-2-06 version had similar specifications except for increased weights: empty 1522 kg ; loaded 1975 kg .-References:* Green, W & Pollinger, G, The World's Fighting Planes . London: MacDonald....
.
Messerschmitt Me 263
In Aces: Iron Eagle IIIAces: Iron Eagle III
Aces: Iron Eagle III is a 1992 action film directed by John Glen and is the third installment of the Iron Eagle film series, with Louis Gossett, Jr. reprising his role as Col. Charles "Chappy" Sinclair. Also starring are Japanese actor Sonny Chiba and retired boxing champion Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini...
, the drug-dealing ex-Nazi
Nazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
villain flies this jet fighter aircraft, which was supposedly developed by the Germans towards the end of World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. It was in reality a Scaled Composites
Scaled Composites
Scaled Composites is an aerospace company founded by Burt Rutan and currently owned by Northrop Grumman that is located at the Mojave Spaceport, Mojave, California, United States...
ARES
Scaled Composites ARES
The Scaled Composites ARES is a demonstrator aircraft built by the company Scaled Composites. ARES is an acronym for Agile Responsive Effective Support.-Development:In 1981, the U.S...
. Outside the film, the Me 263
Messerschmitt Me 263
-See also:http://www.aviastar.org/air/germany/me-263.php-References:* David Myhra, "Messerschmitt Me 263", Schiffer Publishing, 1999...
was a prototype advanced version of the rocket-powered Me 163.
Metyor Mt-179
The Metyor Mt-179 is an advanced fighter-bomber version of the Fiskious Fi-170 found in Dale BrownDale Brown
Dale Brown is an American author and aviator, most famous for his aviation techno-thriller novels, with thirteen New York Times best sellers to his name.Brown was born in Buffalo, New York...
's novel Warrior Class. The aircraft is designed with a forward swept wing and an extremely thin fuselage
Fuselage
The fuselage is an aircraft's main body section that holds crew and passengers or cargo. In single-engine aircraft it will usually contain an engine, although in some amphibious aircraft the single engine is mounted on a pylon attached to the fuselage which in turn is used as a floating hull...
section.
The aircraft uses an internal bomb bay to carry laser-guided bombs and R-27 missiles. It houses four R-60
Molniya R-60
The Molniya R-60 is a lightweight air-to-air missile designed for use by Soviet fighter aircraft. It has been widely exported, and remains in service with the CIS and many other nations....
missiles in the leading edge
Leading edge
The leading edge is the part of the wing that first contacts the air; alternatively it is the foremost edge of an airfoil section. The first is an aerodynamic definition, the second a structural one....
of the wings; however, these are omitted due to corrosion of the wing. The crew of two consists of a pilot and a weapons operator.
Bought by oil broker Pavel Kazakov, the aircraft is used to influence his East European neighbors, almost starting a number of conflicts. The aircraft finally turned in on USAF forces in Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
. Fortunately, the chief designer sent the aircraft's heat signature to the USAF in Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
allowing Patrick McLanahan and his team of EB-1C Vampire II to destroy it.
The aircraft resembles a VF-9 Cutlass
VF-9 Cutlass
The General Galaxy VF-9 Cutlass is a fictional variable fighter in alternate stories and video games based on the Macross japanese animated series...
MiG-27 (Fictional)
A fictional MiG-27 appears in the novel Wingborn by Martin CaidinMartin Caidin
Martin Caidin was an American author and an authority on aeronautics and aviation.Caidin wrote more than 50 books, including Samurai!, Black Thursday, Thunderbolt!, Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38, Zero!, The Ragged, Rugged Warriors, A Torch to the Enemy and many other works of military history...
, where a pair of them escort the first commercial flight between Alaska
Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
and the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
. It is described as a large swing-wing fighter capable of 2736 km/H (1700 m/H) with a maximum altitude of one hundred thousand feet.
MiG-28
Fictional aircraft codenamed MiG-28 (МиГ-28 in CyrillicCyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
script) have appeared in several different unrelated works. These fictional aircraft have been independently created and the aircraft share nothing but a name, although it has also often even been given the NATO reporting name
NATO reporting name
NATO reporting names are classified code names for military equipment of the Eastern Bloc...
Finback. In reality this codename has now been assigned to the Shenyang J-8
Shenyang J-8
The Shenyang J-8 is a high-speed, high-altitude Chinese-built single-seat interceptor fighter aircraft.-J-8:...
, a Chinese
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
interceptor-fighter. The designation "MiG-28" is inconsistent with the practice of aircraft designed by the Mikoyan
Mikoyan
Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG , or RSK MiG, is a Russian joint stock company. Formerly Mikoyan-and-Gurevich Design Bureau , then simply Mikoyan, it is a military aircraft design bureau, primarily designing fighter aircraft...
design bureau (but see the Mig-8 "Utka"), and unusual but not otherwise inconsistent with that of the Soviet military. (Even number fighters include the Su-24, a strike-fighter, and the Tu-28 interceptor.)
The first instance of a "MiG-28" was in the 1978 Quiller
Quiller
Quiller is the alias of a fictional spy created by English novelist Elleston Trevor and featured in a series of Cold War thrillers written under the pseudonym "Adam Hall".The series focuses on a solitary, highly capable spy...
novel The Sinkiang Executive written by Adam Hall
Elleston Trevor
Elleston Trevor was the pseudonym, and eventually legal name, of the British novelist Trevor Dudley-Smith , who also wrote as Adam Hall, Simon Rattray, Howard North, Roger Fitzalan, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith and Lesley Stone...
. Referred to in the work as the MiG-28D (NATO code
NATO reporting name
NATO reporting names are classified code names for military equipment of the Eastern Bloc...
"Finback"), it was an aircraft that resembled a somewhat modified MiG-25
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 is a supersonic interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft that was among the fastest military aircraft to enter service. Designed by the Soviet Union's Mikoyan-Gurevich bureau the first prototype flew in 1964 with entry into service in 1970...
, but with sharper air intakes and swept wings.
In the 1986 film Top Gun
Top Gun
Top Gun may refer to:* Top Gun is a 1986 film starring Tom Cruise.**Top Gun , soundtrack to the movie**Top Gun , a number of games based on the movie...
, Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known as Tom Cruise, is an American film actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and he has won three Golden Globe Awards....
) squared off against MiG-28s with no NATO reporting name and of unspecified nationality. These were nothing more than American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Northrop F-5s, which at the time were being used as aggressor aircraft
Aggressor squadron
An aggressor squadron or adversary squadron is a squadron that is trained to act as an opposing force in military wargames. Aggressor squadrons use enemy tactics, techniques, and procedures to give a realistic simulation of air combat...
for dissimilar air combat training
Dissimilar air combat training
Dissimilar air combat training was introduced as a formal part of US air combat training after disappointing aerial combat exchange rates in the Vietnam War.Traditionally, pilots would undertake air combat training against similar aircraft...
at the real TOPGUN seminar (now known as the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School
United States Navy Fighter Weapons School
The United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program , more popularly known as TOPGUN, is the modern-day evolution of the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School which was originally established on March 3, 1969 at the former Naval Air Station Miramar in California...
). The F-5s "acting" as MiG-28s were painted flat black to indicate their villainous status, and retained those paint jobs after production closed. The paint also increased the aircraft's visibility, a plus for filmmaking. The nation flying these MiG-28s is not specified whatsoever in the film but assumed to be the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
or another Communist state; audio commentary on the film's Special-Edition DVD release states that they were originally intended to be North Korea
North Korea
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...
n. In the script, American pilots are warned that the MiG-28 is armed with the Exocet
Exocet
The Exocet is a French-built anti-ship missile whose various versions can be launched from surface vessels, submarines, helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. Hundreds were fired in combat during the 1980s.-Etymology:...
, a French-made anti-ship missile
Anti-ship missile
Anti-ship missiles are guided missiles that are designed for use against ships and large boats. Most anti-ship missiles are of the sea-skimming type, many use a combination of inertial guidance and radar homing...
not found in the inventory of Soviet forces. In video games
Top Gun (video game)
The popularity of the 1986 film Top Gun resulted in a number of licensed video games that have been released since the film's theatrical debut:-Top Gun:...
licensed from the films, the enemy planes are replaced with real Soviet aircraft, the MiG-29 "Fulcrum".
Another MiG-28 is "seen" in the 1988 ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
television series Supercarrier
Supercarrier (TV series)
Supercarrier was a 1988 ABC television series aired during the Top Gun trend of the late 1980s. It featured US Navy Pilots aboard the fictional aircraft carrier USS Georgetown, and ran for eight episodes before being cancelled.-Cast:...
. This MiG-28 was a fictional Soviet stealth
Stealth aircraft
Stealth aircraft are aircraft that use stealth technology to avoid detection by employing a combination of features to interfere with radar as well as reduce visibility in the infrared, visual, audio, and radio frequency spectrum. Development of stealth technology likely began in Germany during...
fighter. An F-16 fighter in Soviet-style markings was used to "simulate" the Soviet fighter.
LA-6
A fictional Soviet interceptor featured as a traditional April 1 joke in the Russian edition of Popular MechanicsPopular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics is an American magazine first published January 11, 1902 by H. H. Windsor, and has been owned since 1958 by the Hearst Corporation...
; at different times, these hoaxes ranged from nuclear bullets to badgers with naturally formed wheels. As usual, it was denounced in the May issue.
LA-6, developed from captured Nazi technology, "was" a "flying saucer" with jet engine-based thrust vectoring, S/VTOL and high subsonic capability. It was purpose-built at the height of Cold War to combat American B-29 Superfortresses approaching from the North Pole. Its wide dorsal area was armored against any defensive armaments, and carried four twin 37-mm autocannons, allowing it to unleash a deadly barrage from above.
Only a single squadron existed, based on Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen is the largest and only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Constituting the western-most bulk of the archipelago, it borders the Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea and the Greenland Sea...
. All the work was allegedly stopped after Khruschev began to promote ICBMs and SAMs as all the weapons USSR needed, and all the craft were scuttled into the sea.
Mikoyan MiG-31 (fictional)
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
script), NATO reporting name
NATO reporting name
NATO reporting names are classified code names for military equipment of the Eastern Bloc...
"Firefox", is a fictional aircraft appearing in Craig Thomas
Craig Thomas (author)
David Craig Owen Thomas was a Welsh author of thrillers, most notably the Mitchell Gant series.-Background:...
' novels Firefox
Firefox (novel)
Firefox is a thriller novel written by Craig Thomas and published in 1977. The Cold War plot involves an attempt by the CIA and MI5 to steal a highly advanced experimental Soviet fighter aircraft. The chief protagonist is fighter pilot turned spy Mitchell Gant...
and Firefox Down
Firefox Down
Firefox Down is a 1983 novel by author Craig Thomas. It is a sequel to his novel Firefox. Craig Thomas dedicated the first edition of the novel to actor/director/producer Clint Eastwood, who starred as Mitchell Gant in the film adaptation of the first novel, stating, "For Clint Eastwood — pilot of...
, as well as the Clint Eastwood film
Firefox (film)
Firefox is a 1982 American action film produced, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. It is based upon the 1977 novel of the same name written by Craig Thomas....
based on the former. Scenes from the cockpit used shots from a F-4 Phantom II and T-38 Talon.
The Firefox is an interceptor aircraft
Interceptor aircraft
An interceptor aircraft is a type of fighter aircraft designed specifically to prevent missions of enemy aircraft, particularly bombers and reconnaissance aircraft. Interceptors generally rely on high speed and powerful armament in order to complete their mission as quickly as possible and set up...
with stealth
Stealth aircraft
Stealth aircraft are aircraft that use stealth technology to avoid detection by employing a combination of features to interfere with radar as well as reduce visibility in the infrared, visual, audio, and radio frequency spectrum. Development of stealth technology likely began in Germany during...
capabilities, to the point that it is invisible to radar. It is powered by two incredibly powerful "Turmansky" (a probable misspelling of Tumansky) turbo-ramjet
Ramjet
A ramjet, sometimes referred to as a stovepipe jet, or an athodyd, is a form of airbreathing jet engine using the engine's forward motion to compress incoming air, without a rotary compressor. Ramjets cannot produce thrust at zero airspeed and thus cannot move an aircraft from a standstill...
engines that permit flight at hypersonic
Hypersonic
In aerodynamics, a hypersonic speed is one that is highly supersonic. Since the 1970s, the term has generally been assumed to refer to speeds of Mach 5 and above...
speeds, but their exhaust gives the Firefox a prominent infrared
Infrared
Infrared light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength longer than that of visible light, measured from the nominal edge of visible red light at 0.74 micrometres , and extending conventionally to 300 µm...
signature. The Firefox's most famous feature is its Thought-Controlled
Brain-computer interface
A brain–computer interface , sometimes called a direct neural interface or a brain–machine interface , is a direct communication pathway between the brain and an external device...
Weapons System, which uses signals from the pilot's brain to target enemies and fire weapons; however, it only responds to commands thought in Russian
Russian language
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
. The Firefox's weapons consist of up to four AA-6 Acrid
Bisnovat R-40
The Bisnovat R-40 was a long-range air-to-air missile developed in the 1960s by the Soviet Union specifically for the MiG-25 interceptor, but can also be carried by the later MiG-31...
air-to-air missile
Air-to-air missile
An air-to-air missile is a missile fired from an aircraft for the purpose of destroying another aircraft. AAMs are typically powered by one or more rocket motors, usually solid fuelled but sometimes liquid fuelled...
s (modified for thought guidance), two 23 mm cannons, and four Rear Defense Pods on the wings, which fire explosive charges at a pursuing aircraft or missile.
Other capabilities of the Firefox include a 3000 miles (4,828 km) range
Range (aircraft)
The maximal total range is the distance an aircraft can fly between takeoff and landing, as limited by fuel capacity in powered aircraft, or cross-country speed and environmental conditions in unpowered aircraft....
and a flight ceiling over 120000 feet (36,576 m). To give the pilot full situational awareness the aircraft also includes a camera system that allows the pilot to see images ahead of, below, and directly behind the aircraft on his console. Mitchell Gant uses this system several times during his flight to keep track of missiles, and other aircraft pursuing him.
Two production prototypes were built before it was to be deployed into active service for the Soviet Air Force
Soviet Air Force
The Soviet Air Force, officially known in Russian as Военно-воздушные силы or Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily and often abbreviated VVS was the official designation of one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces...
. The first prototype
Prototype
A prototype is an early sample or model built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from.The word prototype derives from the Greek πρωτότυπον , "primitive form", neutral of πρωτότυπος , "original, primitive", from πρῶτος , "first" and τύπος ,...
was stolen by Mitchell Gant
Mitchell Gant
Mitchell Gant is a fictional character in a series of books written by Craig Thomas. His first appearance occurs in the 1977 novel Firefox as a US Air Force major that steals a Russian MiG-31 Firefox fighter aircraft prototype.-Character biography:Gant grew up in Clarksville, a small town in rural...
operating on behalf of the Western intelligence community
Intelligence community
Intelligence community may refer to* Bangladeshi intelligence community* Croatian intelligence community * Israeli intelligence community* Italian intelligence community, see SISMI...
. The second prototype intercepted Gant and the two aircraft entered into combat with Gant destroying his adversary.
In the novel Firefox Down
Firefox Down
Firefox Down is a 1983 novel by author Craig Thomas. It is a sequel to his novel Firefox. Craig Thomas dedicated the first edition of the novel to actor/director/producer Clint Eastwood, who starred as Mitchell Gant in the film adaptation of the first novel, stating, "For Clint Eastwood — pilot of...
, it is revealed the remaining prototype's fuel lines were ruptured in the dogfight that concluded the previous novel and the aircraft crash-lands in Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
. One of the plot lines of Firefox Down is the race between the Soviets and Western Intelligence to recover the aircraft submerged in a frozen Finnish lake.
The Firefox's appearance differs between the first novel and film. The version in the novel resembles a MiG-25 "Foxbat"
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 is a supersonic interceptor and reconnaissance aircraft that was among the fastest military aircraft to enter service. Designed by the Soviet Union's Mikoyan-Gurevich bureau the first prototype flew in 1964 with entry into service in 1970...
, much like the real Mikoyan MiG-31
Mikoyan MiG-31
The Mikoyan MiG-31 is a supersonic interceptor aircraft developed to replace the MiG-25 "Foxbat". The MiG-31 was designed by the Mikoyan design bureau based on the MiG-25.-Development:...
"Foxhound". The Firefox's distinctive appearance also appears to have been the inspiration for the F-200 Efreet fighter in the video game U.N. Squadron
U.N. Squadron
U.N. Squadron is a 1989 side scrolling shooting game released for the CPS arcade hardware by Capcom. The game was released in Japan as and is based on the manga series of the same name, featuring the same main characters. Here, their mission is to stop a terrorist group known as Project 4...
.
In the Battlefield 2 Mod, Allied Intent Xtended 2 (AIX2), the The MiG-31 is available on map "Operation Greasy Mullet". The Middle East Coalition forces (MEC) have the MiG-31 Firefox as their aircraft. U.S. Forces have the F-12A (Interceptor prototype of the SR-71 Blackbird). Because of the extreme speeds of the aircraft in game, the normal view distance of the graphics is increased from 600 meters to 2,500 meters. This can cause some "lag" on older systems without newer graphic cards for rendering.
MiG-37
The MiG-37 (fictional NATO reporting nameNATO reporting name
NATO reporting names are classified code names for military equipment of the Eastern Bloc...
Ferret E) is a fictional stealth aircraft produced in kit form by Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
model
Model aircraft
Model aircraft are flying or non-flying models of existing or imaginary aircraft using a variety of materials including plastic, diecast metal, polystyrene, balsa wood, foam and fibreglass...
manufacturer Italeri
Italeri
Italeri Incorporated is an Italian manufacturer of plastic scale models of airplanes, military vehicles, helicopters, ships, trucks, cars and figures...
, in co-operation with American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
model company Testors. The kit was a follow-up to Testors' highly successful (and fictional) "F-19
F-19
F-19 is a designation for a hypothetical United States fighter aircraft that has never been officially acknowledged, and has engendered much speculation that it might refer to a type of aircraft whose existence is still classified.-History:...
Stealth
Stealth aircraft
Stealth aircraft are aircraft that use stealth technology to avoid detection by employing a combination of features to interfere with radar as well as reduce visibility in the infrared, visual, audio, and radio frequency spectrum. Development of stealth technology likely began in Germany during...
" model kit.
The MiG-37 is a stealth fighter designed using advances in technology from the Soviet Union's space and aviation programs as a reaction to the American F-19
F-19
F-19 is a designation for a hypothetical United States fighter aircraft that has never been officially acknowledged, and has engendered much speculation that it might refer to a type of aircraft whose existence is still classified.-History:...
stealth project.
MiG-242
The Mikoyan MiG-242 appears in the pilot episode of the Gerry AndersonGerry Anderson
Gerry Anderson MBE is a British publisher, producer, director and writer, famous for his futuristic television programmes, particularly those involving specially modified marionettes, a process called "Supermarionation"....
production of Joe 90
Joe 90
Joe 90 is a late-1960s British science-fiction television series documenting the exploits of a nine-year-old boy, Joe McClaine, who embarks on a double life as a schoolboy turned spy when his scientist father invents a pioneering machine capable of duplicating and transferring expert knowledge and...
. It is a 21st century Russian air-superiority fighter, and the most advanced of its time. The MiG-242 could be launched from a special zero-zero launch ramp. This ramp could be deployed on Russian air bases and would elevate 45 degrees and catapult the aircraft via the use of an electromagnetic rail catapult, while the fighter engaged full afterburners.
The aircraft was discovered to have variable wing geometry and when swept, the wings met up with the tail to form a delta. This offered the MiG-242 both excellent low speed maneuverability and high Mach speed. Maximum speed was 3,600 km/h (Mach 3) at 11,500 metres and was powered by two variable-cycle turbine/ram jet engines. These operated as jet turbines up to Mach 2.5, and as ramjets from Mach 2.1 and up.
The key to its versatility was the weapons system, two pods mounted ventrally under the fuselage. These pods could be configured with a variety of weapons, from air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles plus sensor equipment, free-fall bombs and other ordnance. These could be quickly removed and replaced to give the MiG-242 exceptional turn-around times. In the nose were mounted two 30 mm cannon for close range fighting and two ECM pods were mounted in the twin tails.
The models that were actually used for filming the episodes were modified Angel Interceptors, from Anderson's previous series, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill...
.
Turbo Kat
The Turbo Kat was the primary vehicle for the two protagonists T-Bone and Razor in the animated hit series Swat Kats: The Radical SquadronSWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron is an animated series for television created by Christian and Yvon Tremblay and produced by Hanna-Barbera and Turner Program Services. Every episode of the series was directed by Robert Alvarez. The bulk of the series was written by either Glenn Leopold or Lance Falk...
. It was based on the Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American global aerospace and defense technology company formed by the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company was the fourth-largest defense contractor in the world as of 2010, and the largest builder of naval vessels. Northrop Grumman employs over...
F-14 Tomcat
F-14 Tomcat
The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy's Naval Fighter Experimental program following the collapse of the F-111B project...
with three jet engines and V/STOL
V/STOL
Vertical and/or short take-off and landing is a term used to describe aircraft that are able to take-off or land vertically or on short runways. Vertical takeoff and landing describes craft which do not require runways at all...
capabilities.
Savoia S.21
The Savoia S.21 is a fictional seaplaneSeaplane
A seaplane is a fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing on water. Seaplanes that can also take off and land on airfields are a subclass called amphibian aircraft...
fighter that appears in the anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
film Porco Rosso
Porco Rosso
Porco Rosso, known in Japan as is the sixth anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki, produced by Studio Ghibli and released in 1992, of an Italian World War I fighter ace, now living as a freelance bounty hunter chasing "air pirates" in the Adriatic Sea. The man has been cursed and transformed into...
, directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki
is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of animated feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli,...
.
While the plane depicted in the film never existed, Savoia
Savoia-Marchetti
-History:The original company was founded in 1915 as SIAI . After World War I gained the name Savoia, when it acquired the Società Anonima Costruzioni Aeronautiche Savoia, an Italian aircraft company founded by Umberto Savoia in 1915.The name Marchetti was added when chief designer Alessandro...
was an actual Italian aircraft maker which produced a considerable number of flying boats in the 1920s, during which the film is set. An actual Savoia S.21 even existed, though the fictional one does not closely resemble it—the Cant.Z 501 "Seagull"
CANT Z.501
The CANT Z.501 Gabbiano was a single engine flying boat that served with the Italian Regia Aeronautica during World War II. It had a crew of four or five and was used mainly for reconnaissance. Initially a successful aircraft, it was obsolete by 1940, but was still used throughout World War II,...
is probably the closest real-life match. As a matter of fact, Hayao Miyazaki is said to have drawn his Savoia S.21 from his childhood memories of Macchi M.33
Macchi M.33
|-See also:...
.
The S.21 was a custom-built fighter seaplane with a single parasol wing, above which was mounted a single engine nacelle. It had a flying-boat hull and outrigger floats, and carried two machine guns in the nose. In the film, there are two versions of the S.21. The initial version was powered by an Isotta-Fraschini Asso liquid-cooled V-12 engine; the later version mounted a Fiat A.S.2 "Folgore" V-12 with a modified radiator configuration. In addition to the engine, the new version had a tiny forward cockpit.
In The Age of the Flying Boat, the book on which the film is based, the modified version takes a Rolls-Royce Kestrel
Rolls-Royce Kestrel
|-See also:-Bibliography:* Erfurth, Helmut. Junkers Ju 87 . Bonn, Germany: Bernard & Graefe Verlag, 2004. ISBN 1-85780-186-5....
engine. The aircraft was painted bright red with Italian tricolor stripes on the wings and tail.
Specifications
- Crew: initial version, 1 pilot; second version, additional 1 passenger
- Length: 7.92 m
- Wingspan: 10 m
- Powerplant: 430 HP
- Maximum Speed: 330 km/h
- Armament: 2 × 7.92 mm SpandauMaschinengewehr 08The Maschinengewehr 08, or MG08, was the German Army's standard machine gun in World War I and is an adoption of Hiram S. Maxim's original 1884 Maxim Gun. It was produced in a number of variants during the war. The MG 08 remained in service until the outbreak of World War II due to shortages of...
machine-guns
YF-19 Alpha One
In Japanese anime Macross PlusMacross Plus
is a four-episode anime OVA and theatrical movie in the Macross series. It was the first sequel to the original Macross television series that took place in the official timeline...
. YF-19 Alpha One is an advanced variable fighter prototype developed by Shinsei Industries as part of Project Super Nova. It led to the development of the VF-19 Excalibur
VF-19 Excalibur
The VF-19 Excalibur is a fictional spacecraft in the anime Macross. It is an Advanced Variable Fighter, the UN Spacy's latest frontline variable fighter to replace the already aging VF-11 Thunderbolt. In the year 2040, a contest was held for the design of the Advanced Variable Fighter. Two...
. The aircraft features a turreted anti-air laser cannon, internal missile launchers, hardpoints, gun pod
Gun pod
A gun pod is a detachable pod or pack containing machine guns or automatic cannon and ancillaries, mounted externally on a vehicle such as a military aircraft which may or may not also have its own guns....
, sensor baffling active-stealth system, virtual-environment cockpit, pin-point barrier system, vectored maneuvering thrusters, and swing-wing
Swing-wing
A variable-sweep wing is an aeroplane wing that may be swept back and then returned to its original position during flight. It allows the aircraft's planform to be modified in flight, and is therefore an example of a variable-geometry aircraft....
design, and is able to reach escape velocity from an Earth-sized planet. It is also one of the few variable fighters developed to use the Hyperspace Fold FAST Packs.
YF-21 Omega One
In Japanese anime Macross PlusMacross Plus
is a four-episode anime OVA and theatrical movie in the Macross series. It was the first sequel to the original Macross television series that took place in the official timeline...
. YF-21 Omega One is an advanced variable fighter prototype developed by General Galaxy as part of Project Super Nova. It led to the development of the VF-22 Sturmvogel II
VF-22 Sturmvogel II
The VF-22 Sturmvogel is a fictional variable fighter from the anime Macross 7. It is based on the YF-21 from the OVA series Macross Plus.-Backstory:...
. The aircraft features laser cannons, internal missile launchers, hardpoints, gun pod
Gun pod
A gun pod is a detachable pod or pack containing machine guns or automatic cannon and ancillaries, mounted externally on a vehicle such as a military aircraft which may or may not also have its own guns....
, sensor baffling active-stealth system, brain control system, pin-point barrier system, vectored maneuvering thrusters, and Intelligent Flight Control System
Intelligent Flight Control System
The Intelligent Flight Control System is a next-generation flight control system designed to provide increased safety for the crew and passengers of aircraft as well as to optimize the aircraft performance under normal conditions. The main benefit of this system is that it will allow a pilot to...
, and is able to reach escape velocity from an Earth-sized planet. It is also one of the few variable fighters developed to use the Hyperspace Fold FAST Packs. It closely resembles to the YF-23 Black Widow II
YF-23 Black Widow II
The Northrop YF-23 or Northrop–McDonnell Douglas YF-23 was an American single-seat, twin-engine fighter aircraft designed for the United States Air Force . The design was a finalist in the USAF's Advanced Tactical Fighter competition, battling the Lockheed YF-22 for a production contract...
.
The Ghost Unmanned Drone
In the Japanese Macross PlusMacross Plus
is a four-episode anime OVA and theatrical movie in the Macross series. It was the first sequel to the original Macross television series that took place in the official timeline...
. The Ghost is an advanced unmanned drone that supposed to be the replacement of both the YF-19 & YF-21. But, the artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
singing diva Sharon Apple possessed the Ghost just to attack both Isamu Alva Dyson and Guld Goa Bowman. It was destroyed by Guld by sacrificing himself in an aerial combat.
F/A-40
In the game Frontlines: Fuel of WarFrontlines: Fuel of War
Frontlines: Fuel of War is a first-person shooter game for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360. It was released February 25, 2008 in North America. It was produced by Kaos Studios...
which released in Spring 2008, the fictional F/A-40 representing the main combat aircraft of the Western Coalition, and in fact it appears to be a modified F-22 Raptor in actual environment.
King Raptor
The King Raptor is an upgraded version of the F-22 Raptor, featured in Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour. When playing as the United States Air Force General, the King Raptor automatically replaces the Raptor in the build menu. This fighter carries 6 air-to-air/air-to-ground missiles and uses a Point Defense Laser to destroy hostile missiles. Its upgraded radar enables it to detect stealth units.Gilbert XF-120
Fictional experimental jet in the 1956 film Toward the UnknownToward the Unknown
Toward the Unknown is a 1956 movie about the dawn of supersonic flight filmed on location at Edwards Air Force Base. Starring William Holden, Lloyd Nolan and Virginia Leith, the film features the screen debut of James Garner. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and written by Beirne Lay, Jr...
starring William Holden
William Holden
William Holden was an American actor. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1954 and the Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1974...
. The Martin XB-51
Martin XB-51
|-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Andrade, John M. U.S. Military Aircraft Designations and Serials since 1909. Earl Shilton, Leicester, UK: Midland Counties Publications, 1979. ISBN 0-904597-22-9....
starred as the XF-120 in the film.
Willis JA-3
Fictional experimental hybrid rocket/jet 1400 mph X-plane, built by a small, under pressure aircraft builder, relentless Leland Willis (Raymond Massey). Newly hired test pilot, retired Matt Brennan (Humphrey Bogart) conducts strenuous tests on the plane's top speed capability, plus an experimental pilot escape pod – featured in the 1950 film Chain LightningChain Lightning (film)
Chain Lightning is a 1950 American aviation film based on the story "These Many Years" by black-listed writer Lester Cole ; the screenplay was written by Liam O'Brien and Vincent B. Evans. During World War II, Evans had been the bombardier on the B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle...
, starring Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon.The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema....
Yak-12
A fictional Soviet jet in the 1960 Howard HughesHoward Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. was an American business magnate, investor, aviator, engineer, film producer, director, and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest people in the world...
film Jet Pilot
Jet Pilot (film)
Jet Pilot is a 1957 Cold War romantic comedy film starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh. Written by Jules Furthman, the Technicolor movie went through several directorial changes. Josef von Sternberg directed between October, 1949 and February, 1950...
starring John Wayne
John Wayne
Marion Mitchell Morrison , better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and became an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height...
. The plane used was actually a T-33
T-33 Shooting Star
The Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star is an American-built jet trainer aircraft. It was produced by Lockheed and made its first flight in 1948, piloted by Tony LeVier. The T-33 was developed from the Lockheed P-80/F-80 starting as TP-80C/TF-80C in development, then designated T-33A. It was used by the...
.
Tempest GR Mk. 7
Tempest appeared as a Royal Air ForceRoyal Air Force
The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...
fighter-bomber in several novels by John Nichol
John Nichol (RAF officer)
Flight Lieutenant Adrian John Nichol is a retired Royal Air Force navigator who was shot down and captured during the first Gulf War.-Early life:...
, who served as a navigator on the real-world Panavia Tornado
Panavia Tornado
The Panavia Tornado is a family of twin-engine, variable-sweep wing combat aircraft, which was jointly developed and manufactured by the United Kingdom, West Germany and Italy...
around the time of the first Gulf War. Tempest is a clear proxy for Tornado, following the meteorological naming scheme, with both being twin-engined, tandem cockpit aircraft carrying the RAF's designation for a ground-attack type. Both rotate at around 170 knots, have the same emergency checks in response to an engine fire, and have thrust reversers (which are unusual on a fast jet). Although Tempest appears to combine the capabilities of both the fighter and ground-attack variants of Tornado, it carries a GR designation, the RAF's terminology for a ground-attack aircraft. Tempests are described firing (real-world) Skyflash missiles, as in the air-defence variant Tornado F.3, but also flying ground-attack profiles which would not be possible without the GR.4's ground-mapping radar. One novel was concerned with problems, alluded to in at least one other book, with the Tempest's computerised flight control system.
A-20 Razorback
The A-20 Razorback is a very fast jet fighter in two of Tom ClancyTom Clancy
Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. is an American author, best known for his technically detailed espionage, military science, and techno thriller storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War, along with video games on which he did not work, but which bear his name for licensing and...
's video games. It was first seen in Tom Clancy's EndWar
Tom Clancy's EndWar
Tom Clancy's EndWar is a real-time tactics game designed by Ubisoft Shanghai for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows platforms. The Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable versions feature turn-based tactics instead of the real-time tactics of their console counterparts...
, then later in Tom Clancy's HAWX. It was probably developed for the 2018 Bomber
2018 Bomber
The Next-Generation Bomber program is a medium bomber under development by the United States Air Force. It was originally projected to enter service around 2018 as a super stealthy, subsonic, medium range, medium payload "B-3" type system to augment and possibly to a limited degree replace the U.S...
, beating the B-1R, YF-23 and FB-22
FB-22
|-See also:-References:* Miller, Jay. Lockheed Martin F/A-22 Raptor, Stealth Fighter. Aerofax, 2005. ISBN 1-85780-158-X.-External links:* on Air-Attack.com* on GlobalSecurity.org*. Aviation Week, 24 February 2003....
. It is a stealthy replacement for the famous A-10 Thunderbolt II
A-10 Thunderbolt II
The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is an American single-seat, twin-engine, straight-wing jet aircraft developed by Fairchild-Republic in the early 1970s. The A-10 was designed for a United States Air Force requirement to provide close air support for ground forces by attacking tanks,...
and is armed with ground munitions and 2 GAU-8 Avenger
GAU-8 Avenger
The General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger is a 30 mm, hydraulically-driven seven-barrel Gatling-type rotary cannon that is mounted on the United States Air Force's Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II. It is among the largest, heaviest and most powerful aircraft cannons in the United States military...
for close air support.
Eurofighter Hailstorm
The Hailstorm is a fighter that is also seen in EndWarEndwar
-Media:*Tom Clancy's EndWar, a video game based on a futuristic global war, in the Tom Clancy series of games*Tom Clancy's EndWar , the novel written by David Michaels which ties in with the game...
, but is armed with a laser cannon. It was developed from the Eurofighter Typhoon
Eurofighter Typhoon
The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine, canard-delta wing, multirole combat aircraft, designed and built by a consortium of three companies: EADS, Alenia Aeronautica and BAE Systems; working through a holding company, Eurofighter GmbH, which was formed in 1986...
, Gripen, and Rafale.
Sukhoi Su-38 Slamhound
Should not be confused with the real Sukhoi Su-38Sukhoi Su-38
|-See also:-References:*Karnozov, Vladimir and Stewart Penny. ". Flight International, 3–9 July 2001, p. 24.* Jackson, Paul. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 2003–2004. Coulsdon, UK: Jane's Information Group, 2003. ISBN 0-7106-2537-5....
agricultural aircraft.
This product of Sukhoi
Sukhoi
Sukhoi Company is a major Russian aircraft manufacturer, headquartered in Begovoy District, Northern Administrative Okrug, Moscow, famous for its fighters...
is also in EndWar. Like the Razorback, it has missiles, bombs, and a gun, but was developed from the Sukhoi Su-47
Sukhoi Su-47
The Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut , also designated S-32 and S-37 during initial development, was an experimental supersonic jet fighter developed by Sukhoi Aviation Corporation...
.
Angel Interceptor
A catapult launched jet fighter aircraft from the 1967 TV series Captain Scarlet and the MysteronsCaptain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill...
. The aircraft which are flown by women pilots operate from an airborne aircraft carrier named Cloudbase
Cloudbase
Cloudbase is the fictional skyborne headquarters of international security organisation Spectrum, from Gerry Anderson's science fiction television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons .-Appearance in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons:...
. The Angel Interceptor is powered by twin, turbo-jet compressors feeding a single ramjet. It is armed with a cannon firing heat seeking and armor piercing shells and with air-to-air and air-to-ground rocket launchers. It lands by swooping up into a vertical attitude and 'hooks' on to the carrier similarly to the Ryan Vertijet .
Apollo Fighter
In EAElectronic Arts
Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...
's RTS game Red Alert 3, the Allies used Apollo Fighter as an air-superiorty fighter which can fire Vulcan Cannon
M61 Vulcan
The M61 Vulcan is a hydraulically or pneumatically driven, six-barreled, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style rotary cannon which fires 20 mm rounds at an extremely high rate. The M61 and its derivatives have been the principal cannon armament of United States military fixed-wing aircraft...
at aerial threats. According to the official data, it is originated from Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
, and its appearance is identical to Swedish Saab 35 Draken, except for its V/STOL
V/STOL
Vertical and/or short take-off and landing is a term used to describe aircraft that are able to take-off or land vertically or on short runways. Vertical takeoff and landing describes craft which do not require runways at all...
capabilities.
Banshee
In WestwoodWestwood Studios
Westwood Studios was a computer and video game developer, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was founded by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle in as Westwood Associates, and renamed to Westwood Studios when it merged with Virgin Interactive in...
's Tiberian Sun, Nod can build a kind of advanced fighter called Banshee, which can fire plasma cannons (3 shots per plane) at ground targets.
In Blizzard
Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded on February 8, 1991 under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of UCLA, Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce and currently owned by French company Activision Blizzard...
's StarCraft II
StarCraft II
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and released by Blizzard Entertainment for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. A sequel to the award-winning 1998 video game StarCraft and its expansions, the game was released worldwide on July 27, 2010...
, Terran can build Banshee fighters, which can temporarily conceal themselves from enemy's naked eyes (inherited from their predecessors Wraith) and fire a volley of rockets at ground enemies also used in halo.
Mecha/Jet Tengu
In Red Alert 3, due to Empire of the Rising SunJapan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
having no conventional air force, the Japanese used Mecha/Jet Tengu as a light air-superiority interceptor and hover amphibious assault walker; its airplane form looks like the F-86 Sabre
F-86 Sabre
The North American F-86 Sabre was a transonic jet fighter aircraft. Produced by North American Aviation, the Sabre is best known as America's first swept wing fighter which could counter the similarly-winged Soviet MiG-15 in high speed dogfights over the skies of the Korean War...
, and uses twin cannons against ground and aerial targets.
XF-15F Cheetah
The XF-15F Cheetah is a fictional aircraft from the Dale BrownDale Brown
Dale Brown is an American author and aviator, most famous for his aviation techno-thriller novels, with thirteen New York Times best sellers to his name.Brown was born in Buffalo, New York...
novel Day of the Cheetah
Day of the Cheetah
Day of the Cheetah is a 1989 technothriller novel written by former US Air Force officer Dale Brown. It is part of Brown's Patrick McLanahan series of novels. A number of key characters were killed in Day of the Cheetah, only to reappear in later books, as when DotC was first written, Brown did not...
. It is a heavily modified F-15E Strike Eagle
F-15E Strike Eagle
The McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle is an all-weather multirole fighter, derived from the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. The F-15E was designed in the 1980s for long-range, high speed interdiction without relying on escort or electronic warfare aircraft. United States Air Force F-15E Strike...
, bearing a distinct resemblance to the F-15S/MTD
F-15S/MTD
|-F-15 ACTIVE:-See also:- External links :* * *...
.
XF-34A DreamStar
The XF-34A DreamStar is a fictional aircraft from the Dale BrownDale Brown
Dale Brown is an American author and aviator, most famous for his aviation techno-thriller novels, with thirteen New York Times best sellers to his name.Brown was born in Buffalo, New York...
novel Day of the Cheetah
Day of the Cheetah
Day of the Cheetah is a 1989 technothriller novel written by former US Air Force officer Dale Brown. It is part of Brown's Patrick McLanahan series of novels. A number of key characters were killed in Day of the Cheetah, only to reappear in later books, as when DotC was first written, Brown did not...
. It is a single-engine forward-swept wing fighter similar to the Grumman X-29
Grumman X-29
|-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Thruelsen, Richard. The Grumman Story. New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1976. ISBN 0-275-54260-2....
; however, it is completely thought-controlled by its pilot through a semi-artificially intelligent
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
computer called the Advanced Neural Transfer And Response System, or ANTAReS
Antares
Antares is a red supergiant star in the Milky Way galaxy and the sixteenth brightest star in the nighttime sky . Along with Aldebaran, Spica, and Regulus it is one of the four brightest stars near the ecliptic...
. It was stolen by its pilot, who had been a KGB
KGB
The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the...
deep cover agent planted into the United States Air Force years earlier; his handlers wished to reverse-engineer the plane and redesignate it the MiG
Mikoyan
Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG , or RSK MiG, is a Russian joint stock company. Formerly Mikoyan-and-Gurevich Design Bureau , then simply Mikoyan, it is a military aircraft design bureau, primarily designing fighter aircraft...
-39 Zavtra (Russian for "tomorrow.")
X-97 Sabre III
The X-97 Sabre III is a fictional artificially intelligentArtificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
unmanned combat air vehicle
Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle
An unmanned combat air vehicle or combat drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle that is designed to deliver weapons without an onboard pilot. Currently operational UCAVs are under real-time human control, but future version may enable autonomous operation, for example with pre-programmed route and...
featured in the film Green Lantern
Green Lantern (film)
Green Lantern is a 2011 superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Angela Bassett and Tim Robbins, with Martin Campbell directing a script by Greg Berlanti and comic book writers Michael Green and Marc...
. Developed by Ferris Aircraft and presumably named after the F-86 Sabre
F-86 Sabre
The North American F-86 Sabre was a transonic jet fighter aircraft. Produced by North American Aviation, the Sabre is best known as America's first swept wing fighter which could counter the similarly-winged Soviet MiG-15 in high speed dogfights over the skies of the Korean War...
and F-100 Super Sabre
F-100 Super Sabre
The North American F-100 Super Sabre was a supersonic jet fighter aircraft that served with the United States Air Force from 1954 to 1971 and with the Air National Guard until 1979. The first of the Century Series collection of USAF jet fighters, it was the first USAF fighter capable of...
, it is nearly undefeatable in aerial combat against human pilots. Initial versions would flame out at altitudes above 50,000 feet.
G.I. Joe series
- Cobra Condor Z-25: The Condor has two different component parts that are detachable; an attack "wing", and a high-speed aircraft. Other special features include a bomb dropping mechanism, bomb-bay doors, retractable landing gear, and dual-laser support cannons.
- Cobra Night Raven S3P: The Night Raven is a fictional version of the SR-71 BlackbirdSR-71 BlackbirdThe Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" was an advanced, long-range, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft. It was developed as a black project from the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft in the 1960s by the Lockheed Skunk Works. Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was responsible for many of the...
. It features two twin missile pods, twin 20mm cannons, and dual Viper Mach 3.5 turbojet engines. It is also equipped with a small single person "Drone" recon jet that detaches from the main jet, similar to the way in which an early version of the SR-71 was able to carry a Lockheed D-21 piloted drone. Also, the G.I. Joe subgroup Sky Patrol has an aircraft called the "Sky Raven", in which the aircraft was captured by the Joes, and in one story by Devil's Due PublishingDevil's Due PublishingDevil's Due Publishing is an independent comic book publishers in the United States. Based in Chicago, Illinois, DDP is best known for its wide selection of genres, including licensed and original creator-owned properties that populate its monthly comic book series and graphic novels.Though...
the Decepticon StarscreamStarscream (Transformers)Starscream is a fictional character in the Transformers franchise. He is one of the most prolific characters in the Transformers fictional work, appearing in almost all incarnations of the story. Starscream is usually portrayed with the same characterization...
was reformatted to turn into a Night Raven. - Cobra Rattler: The Rattler is a fictional VTOLVTOLA vertical take-off and landing aircraft is one that can hover, take off and land vertically. This classification includes fixed-wing aircraft as well as helicopters and other aircraft with powered rotors, such as cyclogyros/cyclocopters and tiltrotors...
(Vertical Take Off and Landing) fighter aircraft, which was intended as Cobra's counterpart to the SkystrikerSkystrikerIn the fictional world of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Skystriker refers to two things: a jet fighter and a character.-Toys:The Skystriker XP-14F is a variable wing fighter aircraft, which first appeared in the 1983 edition of the hit cartoon series and toyline...
. It is inspired by the USAF A-10 Thunderbolt IIA-10 Thunderbolt IIThe Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is an American single-seat, twin-engine, straight-wing jet aircraft developed by Fairchild-Republic in the early 1970s. The A-10 was designed for a United States Air Force requirement to provide close air support for ground forces by attacking tanks,...
, but with three engines. Two of them are on the wings and one at the rear between the fins. Unlike the Thunderbolt, it also has a gunner behind the pilot, however it still retains the Gatling GunGatling gunThe Gatling gun is one of the best known early rapid-fire weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun. It is well known for its use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was employed in combat...
at the bottom of the nose. - Conquest X-30: The Conquest X-30 is a fictional aircraft from the G.I. Joe: A Real American HeroG.I. Joe: A Real American HeroG.I. Joe: A Real American Hero is a military-themed line of action figures and toys in Hasbro's G.I. Joe franchise. The toyline lasted from 1982 to 1994, producing well over 500 figures and 250 vehicles and playsets. The line reappeared in 1997 and has continued in one form or another to the...
line of toys, comic books and cartoon series. It is a single-seat, twin-engined forward-swept wingForward-swept wingA forward-swept wing is an aircraft wing configuration in which the quarter-chord line of the wing has a forward sweep. The configuration was first proposed in 1936 by German aircraft designers.Perceived benefits of a forward-swept wing design include...
air superiority fighterAir superiority fighterAn air superiority fighter is a type of fighter aircraft intended to gain air superiority in a war, by entering and seizing control of enemy airspace. Air superiority fighters are designed to effectively engage enemy fighters, more than other types of aircraft...
, based on the real-life experimental Grumman X-29Grumman X-29|-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Thruelsen, Richard. The Grumman Story. New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1976. ISBN 0-275-54260-2....
aircraft. The Conquest is designed as the Joe team’s counterpart to Cobra’s Night Raven S3P. It is armed with four "AIM-12 Light Sparrow" missiles, carries "11k" (presumably 11,000 pounds) internal fuel and two 350 gal. external fuel tanks. Its gun armament consists of two 25 mm revolver cannonRevolver cannonA revolver cannon is a type of autocannon commonly used as an aircraft gun. It uses a cylinder with multiple chambers, like those of a revolver handgun, to speed up the loading-firing-ejection cycle. Some examples are also power-driven, to further speed the loading process, but this is by no means...
s. It uses square jet engine nozzles that, curiously, do not appear to be thrust-vectoring. It was also released in a red and black cross "Snake Skin" camouflage, and used by the Cobra Command subgroup Python PatrolPython PatrolThe Python Patrol is an elite unit within the fictional Cobra Organization. They have special uniforms that masks their presence to electronic detection systems...
. - Ghoststriker X-16: The X-16 is a fictional version of the F-16 that is used by the G.I. Joe TeamG.I. Joe TeamG.I. Joe is the code name of an elite covert special forces unit operating under the control of the United States Military in the fictional G.I. Joe universe....
. It features two Sidewinder missiles, four Phoenix missiles, and retractable landing gear. The jet was introduced in 1993, as the latest in the G.I. Joe Team's high-tech flight technology. - Skystriker XP-14F: The SkystrikerSkystrikerIn the fictional world of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Skystriker refers to two things: a jet fighter and a character.-Toys:The Skystriker XP-14F is a variable wing fighter aircraft, which first appeared in the 1983 edition of the hit cartoon series and toyline...
XP-14F is a fictional variable-sweep wing fighter aircraftFighter aircraftA fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat with other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed primarily to attack ground targets...
used by the G.I. Joe Team. When the G.I. Joe animated series was launched in 1985, the Skystriker was the team's only fighter aircraft, until the second season when the Conquest X-30 took over, in conjunction with the release of that toy. Although the Northrop GrummanNorthrop GrummanNorthrop Grumman Corporation is an American global aerospace and defense technology company formed by the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company was the fourth-largest defense contractor in the world as of 2010, and the largest builder of naval vessels. Northrop Grumman employs over...
F-14 TomcatF-14 TomcatThe Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy's Naval Fighter Experimental program following the collapse of the F-111B project...
fighter it was based upon was a twin-seat design, it was rarely portrayed as such in the associated comic books and cartoons. - Phantom X-19: The Phantom X-19 is a fictional aircraft from the G.I. Joe: A Real American HeroG.I. Joe: A Real American HeroG.I. Joe: A Real American Hero is a military-themed line of action figures and toys in Hasbro's G.I. Joe franchise. The toyline lasted from 1982 to 1994, producing well over 500 figures and 250 vehicles and playsets. The line reappeared in 1997 and has continued in one form or another to the...
line of toys, comic books and cartoon series. It is a twin-seat, twin-engine stealthStealth aircraftStealth aircraft are aircraft that use stealth technology to avoid detection by employing a combination of features to interfere with radar as well as reduce visibility in the infrared, visual, audio, and radio frequency spectrum. Development of stealth technology likely began in Germany during...
strike fighterStrike fighterIn a current military parlance, a strike fighter is a multi-role combat aircraft designed to operate primarily in the air-to-surface attack role while also incorporating certain performance characteristics of a fighter aircraft. As a category, it is distinct from fighter-bombers...
aircraft, and is the preferred aircraft of the G.I. Joe pilot known as "Ghostrider". It features two "Bullseye" computer-aided low-altitude missiles, two BY-106 "Little Guy" long range air-to-air missiles, two opening wings with flip out machine guns, and retractable landing gear. Not to be confused with the real Curtiss-Wright X-19Curtiss-Wright X-19|-See also:-External links:*...
, which is an experimental VTOL tilt rotor airplane.
Archeopterix
The Archeopterix is a massive super-weapon bomber appearing in the Naval Ops: Warship GunnerNaval Ops: Warship Gunner
Naval Ops: Warship Gunner is a vehicle simulation game released in 2003 for the PlayStation 2.The game is a one-player simulation of naval combat, in which the player commands an individual ship...
series of games on the PlayStation 2
PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...
console. It is armed with massive bombs, as well as large battleship cannons, however it is vulnerable due to its slow speed.
Aurora
The Aurora is a hypersonic bomber aircraft in the video game Command & Conquer: GeneralsCommand & Conquer: Generals
Command & Conquer: Generals is a real-time strategy game in the Command & Conquer series. Generals utilizes SAGE...
. The Aurora supercruise
Supercruise
Supercruise is sustained supersonic flight of an aircraft with a useful cargo, passenger, or weapons load performed efficiently and without the use of afterburners ....
s when attacking, making it immune to ground fire and missiles. Immediately after attacking, the Aurora loses 50% of its speed and is vulnerable to attack. The Aurora carries one very strong bomb. The Aurora Alpha in the expansion pack Zero Hour, usable by the USA Superweapon General and replacing the common Aurora, is loaded with thermobaric munitions instead. The third-party New Tech Mod for Zero Hour equips the Aurora Alpha with tactical nukes. Auroras can be recognized from their white color and ogee delta wings.
In the PC computer game "Jane's fighters anthology", the Aurora represents a Mach 4+ delta-wing reconnaissance aircraft, the successor of the SR-71 Blackbird.
B-3
The B-3 is a fictional advanced stealth bomber modelled after the B-2 SpiritB-2 Spirit
The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit is an American heavy bomber with low observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses and deploy both conventional and nuclear weapons. The bomber has a crew of two and can drop up to eighty -class JDAM GPS-guided bombs, or sixteen ...
in the film Broken Arrow
Broken Arrow (1996 film)
Broken Arrow is a 1996 American action film directed by John Woo, written by Graham Yost, and starring John Travolta and Christian Slater. The original music score was composed by Hans Zimmer, and features guitarist Duane Eddy. It deals with the theft of an American nuclear weapon.The film received...
. It is more streamlined than the B-2 Spirit and has supersonic capability.
A B-3 is also implemented in the game Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour. If one looks closely at an awkward angle at the plane's model in the World Builder tool, "B-3" is clearly visible.
The B3 is also humorously referred to repeatedly in the film Wag the Dog
Wag the Dog
Wag the Dog is a 1997 black comedy film starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro, co-starring Anne Heche, Denis Leary and William H. Macy about a Washington spin doctor who, merely days before a presidential election, distracts the electorate from a sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood film producer...
, when the President of the United States
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
fakes a war to get re-elected.
B-7A Silhouette
The B-7A Silhouette is a fictional prototype United States Air Force fighter-bomber in the book Ice Station by Matthew ReillyMatthew Reilly
Matthew John Reilly is an Australian action thriller writer. His novels are noted for their fast pace, twisting plots and intense action.- Biography :...
. It is said to be powered by a plutonium
Plutonium
Plutonium is a transuranic radioactive chemical element with the chemical symbol Pu and atomic number 94. It is an actinide metal of silvery-gray appearance that tarnishes when exposed to air, forming a dull coating when oxidized. The element normally exhibits six allotropes and four oxidation...
core. The plutonium core powers its stealth
Stealth aircraft
Stealth aircraft are aircraft that use stealth technology to avoid detection by employing a combination of features to interfere with radar as well as reduce visibility in the infrared, visual, audio, and radio frequency spectrum. Development of stealth technology likely began in Germany during...
mechanism. The Silhouette is able to become invisible not only to radar, but to the human eye. The stealth mechanism on the Silhouette is said to work by distorting the air around the aircraft. All other features of the Silhouette run on normal jet fuel.
The Silhouette also has VTOL
VTOL
A vertical take-off and landing aircraft is one that can hover, take off and land vertically. This classification includes fixed-wing aircraft as well as helicopters and other aircraft with powered rotors, such as cyclogyros/cyclocopters and tiltrotors...
capability thanks to retro-firing jets on its underside, as well as multiple-launch BVR
Beyond Visual Range missile
A beyond-visual-range missile usually refers to an air-to-air missile that is capable of engaging at ranges beyond . This range has been achieved using dual pulse rocket motors or booster rocket motor and ramjet sustainer motor....
air-to-air and air-to-ground missile
Missile
Though a missile may be any thrown or launched object, it colloquially almost always refers to a self-propelled guided weapon system.-Etymology:The word missile comes from the Latin verb mittere, meaning "to send"...
capability, with a range of 2000 nautical miles (3,704 km). In the book a code was needed to open the door to get inside the aircraft.
As well as missiles the Silhouette has wing-mounted machine-guns controlled by the gunner for armament. The plane has a two-person cockpit – the pilot, who sits in a seat forward and to the right of the cockpit, and the gunner/radar operator, who sits above and to the left of the pilot. In the book, people entering the plane are required to open the main door using a code and step inside the missile bay, before going forward into the cockpit.
It is said to have been built in 1979, and was apparently the losing competitor in the B-2
B-2 Spirit
The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit is an American heavy bomber with low observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses and deploy both conventional and nuclear weapons. The bomber has a crew of two and can drop up to eighty -class JDAM GPS-guided bombs, or sixteen ...
stealth bomber project.
B-10
The B-10 is a fictional hypersonicHypersonic
In aerodynamics, a hypersonic speed is one that is highly supersonic. Since the 1970s, the term has generally been assumed to refer to speeds of Mach 5 and above...
long range bomber aircraft in John Grisham
John Grisham
John Ray Grisham, Jr. is an American lawyer and author, best known for his popular legal thrillers.John Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University before attending the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981 and practiced criminal law for about a decade...
's novel The Associate (novel)
The Associate (novel)
The Associate is a legal thriller by John Grisham. His twenty-first novel, it was published by Doubleday and released in the United States on January 27, 2009.-Plot summary:...
. It is designed to skip
Skip reentry
Skip reentry is a reentry technique involving one or more successive "skips" off the atmosphere to achieve greater entry range or to slow the spacecraft before final entry, which helps to dissipate the huge amount of heat that is usually generated on faster descents...
on the edge of the atmosphere at Mach
Mach number
Mach number is the speed of an object moving through air, or any other fluid substance, divided by the speed of sound as it is in that substance for its particular physical conditions, including those of temperature and pressure...
10 and reach the opposite side of the Earth within one hour.
EB-1C Vampire
First appearing in Dale BrownDale Brown
Dale Brown is an American author and aviator, most famous for his aviation techno-thriller novels, with thirteen New York Times best sellers to his name.Brown was born in Buffalo, New York...
's novel Battle Born, the EB-1C is an advanced variant of the B-1 Lancer
B-1 Lancer
The Rockwell B-1 LancerThe name "Lancer" is only applied to the B-1B version, after the program was revived. is a four-engine variable-sweep wing strategic bomber used by the United States Air Force...
. Originally named after the Megafortress, it was renamed the Vampire in Air Battle Force. It differs from the real B-1 in that its wings are always swept all the way back, the tail is smaller and lacks the horizontal stabilizer, and it utilizes new "Mission Adaptive Skin" that works off of micro-hydraulics to affect the shape of the Vampire's wings in-flight. This allows to create lift and drag much more smoothly than harder control flaps.
Unlike the Megafortress
Megafortress
Megafortress is a flight simulation video game developed by Artech Digital Entertainment and released by Three-Sixty Pacific Inc in 1991. The player takes command of the fictional EB-52 Megafortress created by the military and espionage novelist Dale Brown....
, the Vampire can be run via remote control, from pilots and engineers on the ground. These are referred to as Virtual Aircraft Commanders and Mission Commanders. However, both real and virtual pilots, both on the ground and in the cockpit, can run the plane at the same time. Virtual pilots can take off, land, even refuel from their virtual consoles. The Vampire is also used as a "mothership" for FlightHawk or StealthHawk drones. The drones can be both launched and recovered by the Vampire, and even refuel and reload while inside the weapons bay.
EB-52 Megafortress
Dale BrownDale Brown
Dale Brown is an American author and aviator, most famous for his aviation techno-thriller novels, with thirteen New York Times best sellers to his name.Brown was born in Buffalo, New York...
has used various modified variants of the B-52 Stratofortress
B-52 Stratofortress
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber operated by the United States Air Force since the 1950s. The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, who have continued to provide maintainence and upgrades to the aircraft in service...
, which in reality is used by the United States Air Force as their heavy strategic bomber. These variants are usually referred to as the B-52 Megafortress. The Megafortress first appears in Dale Brown's Flight of the Old Dog
Flight of the Old Dog
Flight of the Old Dog is a 1987 thriller novel written by Dale Brown. The novel's descriptions of B-52 controls and operations are based on Brown's knowledge of the systems as a USAF navigator...
and is expanded and upgraded in all his later books. It has all the latest technology (such as an advanced on-board computer and detailed HUD
Head-Up Display
A head-up display or heads-up display is any transparent display that presents data without requiring users to look away from their usual viewpoints...
) and carries all the latest weapons, such as the AIM-7 Sparrow
AIM-7 Sparrow
The AIM-7 Sparrow is an American, medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile operated by the United States Air Force, United States Navy and United States Marine Corps, as well as various allied air forces and navies. Sparrow and its derivatives were the West's principal beyond visual...
, AIM-9 Sidewinder
AIM-9 Sidewinder
The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a heat-seeking, short-range, air-to-air missile carried mostly by fighter aircraft and recently, certain gunship helicopters. The missile entered service with United States Air Force in the early 1950s, and variants and upgrades remain in active service with many air forces...
, AIM-120 AMRAAM
AIM-120 AMRAAM
The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM , is a modern beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. Designed with the same form-factor as the previous generation of semi-active guided Sparrow missiles, it is a fire-and-forget...
, along with various anti-ship missile
Anti-ship missile
Anti-ship missiles are guided missiles that are designed for use against ships and large boats. Most anti-ship missiles are of the sea-skimming type, many use a combination of inertial guidance and radar homing...
s, anti-tank guided missile
Anti-tank guided missile
An anti-tank missile , anti-tank guided missile , anti-tank guided weapon or anti-armor guided weapon is a guided missile primarily designed to hit and destroy heavily-armored military vehicles....
s and even more fanciful weapons such as plasma-yield warheads
Plasma (physics)
In physics and chemistry, plasma is a state of matter similar to gas in which a certain portion of the particles are ionized. Heating a gas may ionize its molecules or atoms , thus turning it into a plasma, which contains charged particles: positive ions and negative electrons or ions...
. It also uses an advanced layout, having a long SST
Supersonic transport
A supersonic transport is a civilian supersonic aircraft designed to transport passengers at speeds greater than the speed of sound. The only SSTs to see regular service to date have been Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144. The last passenger flight of the Tu-144 was in June 1978 with its last ever...
nose and twin V-type tails. In later books, the eight engines of the B-52A-H are replaced by four larger and more powerful turbofans. Coincidentally, this is an upgrade that has been considered for the real-world B-52H fleet.
In Flight of the Old Dog, the first book in the series, the aircraft is designated the B-52I Megafortress. B-52M Megafortress Plus is later introduced in Day of the Cheetah
Day of the Cheetah
Day of the Cheetah is a 1989 technothriller novel written by former US Air Force officer Dale Brown. It is part of Brown's Patrick McLanahan series of novels. A number of key characters were killed in Day of the Cheetah, only to reappear in later books, as when DotC was first written, Brown did not...
and the EB-52 designation is first used in Sky Masters. In reality, the EB-52H (or B-52J) was a planned upgrade to the USAF's current fleet of Stratofortresses, allowing them to act as "stand-off jammers", with jamming pods replacing the B-52's wing-mounted external fuel tank
Fuel tank
A fuel tank is safe container for flammable fluids. Though any storage tank for fuel may be so called, the term is typically applied to part of an engine system in which the fuel is stored and propelled or released into an engine...
s.
One final version, the AL-52 Dragon, was introduced in Wings of Fire. The Dragon is an airborne laser platform; the actual laser is a chemical system (a COIL, or chlorine-oxygen-iodine laser). One prototype, however, is refitted with a plasma-pumped solid-state laser (the technology is based on the plasma-yield warheads mentioned above). Both Dragon variants are devastating against aerial targets; however, the plasma-pumped laser's sheer power makes it effective against surface targets as well. Later on in the series, the plasma-pumped solid state laser replaces the COIL laser on all standard AL-52's.
Fiskious Fi-170
The Fiskious Fi-170 Tuman is a fictional Russian Stealth bomber prototype in military thriller author Dale Brown's book Night of the Hawk. The Fi-170 is the Russian equivalent to the EB-52 Megafortress, developed by captured and brainwashed American engineer Dave Luger. The aircraft is notable in having a super-critical wingSupercritical airfoil
A supercritical airfoil is an airfoil designed, primarily, to delay the onset of wave drag in the transonic speed range. Supercritical airfoils are characterized by their flattened upper surface, highly cambered aft section, and greater leading edge radius compared with traditional airfoil shapes...
and Russian equivalents to American weapons such as the AIM-120
AIM-120 AMRAAM
The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM , is a modern beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. Designed with the same form-factor as the previous generation of semi-active guided Sparrow missiles, it is a fire-and-forget...
and Stinger
AIM-92 Stinger
The AIM-92 Stinger or ATAS is an air-to-air missile developed from the shoulder-launched FIM-92 Stinger system, for use on helicopters such as the AH-64 Apache, Eurocopter Tiger and also UAVs such as the MQ-1 Predator...
missiles.
The Fi-170 is developed at the Fiskious institute in Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
and is stolen by a team of commando
Commando
In English, the term commando means a specific kind of individual soldier or military unit. In contemporary usage, commando usually means elite light infantry and/or special operations forces units, specializing in amphibious landings, parachuting, rappelling and similar techniques, to conduct and...
s led by pilot-hero Patrick McLanahan, who also rescue Dave Luger the same night. The Fi-170 is flown to an undisclosed location in Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
after destroying multiple enemy targets in Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
. The Fi-170 is analyzed and dismantled in Scotland having been found to be no better than a Russian copy of the EB-52.
The Fi-170 appears in the book Warrior Class as the Metyor Mt-179 with a forward-swept wing
Forward-swept wing
A forward-swept wing is an aircraft wing configuration in which the quarter-chord line of the wing has a forward sweep. The configuration was first proposed in 1936 by German aircraft designers.Perceived benefits of a forward-swept wing design include...
and more advanced avionics.
REB-36D Peacemaker II NAWCC
The REB-36D Peacemaker II NAWCC is a heavily modified and upgraded version of the Korean-War Era B-36 Peacemaker, and is a fictional aircraft that plays heavily in the storyline of Brian R. Kupfer's "Metamorphosis: Story of the 137SOW" novel, published in 2001. The NAWCC is an airborne communications and recon platform that acts as a flying headquarters for the 137th Wing Eagle Task Force. The initial concept for the aircraft was come up with by Matt "ElTito" Bendix, Aaron "Valder" Fieldman, and Wahren "Wolf" Morast, and later assembled in the bowels of the highly secret Gorilla Mountain Complex. With the help of the Raytheon group, the REB-36D was first flown days before Desert Storm and has been in action in the skies around the world ever since. The REB-36D is a one-off aircraft and is only ever used by the ETFETF
ETF may refer to:* Exchange-traded fund, an investment vehicle* European Training Foundation, a vocational training organization* European Transport Workers' Federation* Emergency Task Force, a tactical unit of the Toronto Police* Enriched text format...
, usually piloted by Suzanne "Daphne" Wagner and John "Wizard" Terrence with a five person crew of specialists aboard.
Spriggan
The Spriggan is a massive super-bomber appearing in the game Aerofighters AssaultAeroFighters Assault
Aero Fighters Assault, known in Japan as , is a combat flight simulator developed by Paradigm Entertainment and published by Video System for the Nintendo 64. It was first released in North America on November 1, 1997, then in Japan on March 19, 1998, and finally in Europe on April 15, 1998...
. It is armed with nuclear weapons, as well as heavy anti-air cannons. It is also capable of launching fighters such as the F-22.
Vertigo & Armageddon
The Vertigo is a batwing VTOL bomber in Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium WarsCommand & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed and published by Electronic Arts for the Windows, Mac OS X and Xbox 360 platforms, and released internationally in March 2007...
. What differentiates this from other bombers is that the Vertigo uses high-powered active camouflage to get close to the target, drop its payload (a single high-powered bomb) then go into hiding again. In the event that it is spotted mid-flight, the Vertigo has significant armor and a tail gunner, though it still doesn't stand a chance against air superiority fighters, hence the camouflage. Dropping the bomb breaks the energy field and reveals the bomber until the crew can reactivate it; enemy AA buildings can see through the camouflage as well.
The Armageddon is a heavy bomber used for delivering heavier ordnance like cluster bombs loaded with landmines. Unlike the Vertigo, it doesn't use camouflage; rather, it relies on speed and armor to reach the target.
Vindicator
- The Vindicator is a supersonic strategic bomber featured in both the novel Fail-SafeFail-Safe (novel)Fail-Safe is a novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, published in 1962.The popular and critically acclaimed novel was first adapted into a 1964 film of the same name directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, and Walter Matthau. In 2000, the novel was adapted again for...
and the 1964 film Fail-SafeFail-Safe (1964 film)Fail-Safe is a 1964 film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. It tells the story of a fictional Cold War nuclear crisis...
. United States Air Force footage of B-58B-58 HustlerThe Convair B-58 Hustler was the first operational supersonic jet bomber capable of Mach 2 flight. The aircraft was designed by Convair engineer Robert H. Widmer and developed for the United States Air Force for service in the Strategic Air Command during the 1960s...
bombers was used to represent the Vindicators in the film. - The Villiers Vindicator is a fictional V bomberV bomberThe term V bomber was used for the Royal Air Force aircraft during the 1950s and 1960s that comprised the United Kingdom's strategic nuclear strike force known officially as the V-force or Bomber Command Main Force...
from the James BondJames BondJames Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
novel Thunderball by Ian FlemingIan FlemingIan Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer.Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character, one of the biggest-selling series of fictional books of...
. It is hijacked by SPECTRESPECTRESPECTRE is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games...
in order to steal two tactical nuclear weapons and hold NATO governments to ransom. A play on the real-life Vickers ValiantVickers ValiantThe Vickers-Armstrongs Valiant was a British four-jet bomber, once part of the Royal Air Force's V bomber nuclear force in the 1950s and 1960s...
, its part in the EON film adaptationThunderball (film)Thunderball is the fourth spy film in the James Bond series starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham...
was taken by the Royal Air ForceRoyal Air ForceThe Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...
Avro VulcanAvro VulcanThe Avro Vulcan, sometimes referred to as the Hawker Siddeley Vulcan, was a jet-powered delta wing strategic bomber, operated by the Royal Air Force from 1956 until 1984. Aircraft manufacturer A V Roe & Co designed the Vulcan in response to Specification B.35/46. Of the three V bombers produced,...
. - The Vindicator appears in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is a 2008 real-time strategy video game developed by EA Los Angeles and published by Electronic Arts. Announced on February 14, 2008, it was released on October 28, 2008 in the United States for Microsoft Windows-based PCs and three days later in Europe. A version for...
, where it is the perfect anti-tank weapon using B-11 tactical laser guided bombs. It features a VTOL design to be quickly deployable in the battlefield. According to the official data, it is originated from SpainSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
; but its appearance looks like American S-3 VikingS-3 VikingThe Lockheed S-3 Viking is a four-seat twin-engine jet aircraft that was used by the U.S. Navy to identify, track, and destroy enemy submarines. In the late 1990s, the S-3B's mission focus shifted to surface warfare and aerial refueling. The Viking also provided electronic warfare and surface...
and British BAe Harrier mixture.
AH-69 Mohawk
A fictional multi-role attack and transport helicopter from the 1996 Virgin Interactive game Black DawnBlack Dawn
Black Dawn may refer to:*Black Dawn , a 2005 film starring Steven Seagal*Black Dawn , a PlayStation and Sega Saturn video game*Black Dawn, the seventh novel in a young-adult series by L.J. Smith...
for Playstation
PlayStation
The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...
1 and SEGA Saturn
Sega Saturn
The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console that was first released by Sega on November 22, 1994 in Japan, May 11, 1995 in North America, and July 8, 1995 in Europe...
. The AH-69 could hold an absurd amount of weaponry including multi-purpose air-to-air/air-to-ground missiles that could lock onto and destroy any target the player was able to lock onto, and tactical nukes. The Mohawk resembles a UH-1 Iroquois
UH-1 Iroquois
The Bell UH-1 Iroquois is a military helicopter powered by a single, turboshaft engine, with a two-bladed main rotor and tail rotor. The helicopter was developed by Bell Helicopter to meet the United States Army's requirement for a medical evacuation and utility helicopter in 1952, and first flew...
from the front. Its tail is some-what of a hybrid between a V-22 Osprey's and KA-31 Kamov's. For such a large helicopter, it is nimble and exceptionally quick. Its missions include search and destroy, collecting and hostage rescue. There doesn't seem to be a limit to the amount of passengers the AH-69 can hold.
AH-73M Thunderhawk
The playable attack helicopter in the eponymous futuristic video gameThunderhawk (Video Game)
Thunderhawk is a helicopter combat simulator game released by Core Design for the Amiga, Atari ST and IBM PC in 1991, and for the Sega Mega-CD in 1993. The game was renamed to AH-3 ThunderStrike for its USA release.In the game the player is part of the "MERLIN" helicopter combat assault team,...
released by Core design in 1991. The AH-73M seems to be based on the AH-64 Apache
AH-64 Apache
The Boeing AH-64 Apache is a four-blade, twin-engine attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement, and a tandem cockpit for a two-man crew. The Apache was developed as Model 77 by Hughes Helicopters for the United States Army's Advanced Attack Helicopter program to replace the...
, but with more weapons and more advanced technology. A typical loadout for the AH-73 in the game is 16 Hellfire
AGM-114 Hellfire
The AGM-114 Hellfire is an air-to-surface missile developed primarily for anti-armor use. It has multi-mission, multi-target precision-strike capability, and can be launched from multiple air, sea, and ground platforms. The Hellfire missile is the primary 100 lb-class air-to-ground precision...
-like missiles, 76 unguided rockets, 8 Stinger
AIM-92 Stinger
The AIM-92 Stinger or ATAS is an air-to-air missile developed from the shoulder-launched FIM-92 Stinger system, for use on helicopters such as the AH-64 Apache, Eurocopter Tiger and also UAVs such as the MQ-1 Predator...
-like air-to-air missiles and a cannon with unlimited ammunition.
AH-74
A helicopter developed by EidosEidos Interactive
Eidos Interactive Ltd. is a British video game publisher and is a label of Square Enix Europe. As an independent company Eidos plc was headquartered in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton....
and Core
Core
- Science and Academics :* Core , in mathematics, an object in group theory* Core , in mathematics, a subset of the domain of a closable operator* Core , in mathematics, the homomorphically minimal subgraph of a graph...
's Thunderstrike: Operation Phoenix game. It has weapons similar to that of the Apache, yet looks more in appearance to an RAH66 Commanche. The helicopter has fire control radar to distinguish friend from foe, and also gets data fed to it via AWACS. It is armed with a 30 mm cannon, missiles based on the Hellfire that allow it to attack both ground and air targets, and rockets.
AH-80 Blackfoot
In the game Tom Clancy's EndWarTom Clancy's EndWar
Tom Clancy's EndWar is a real-time tactics game designed by Ubisoft Shanghai for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows platforms. The Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable versions feature turn-based tactics instead of the real-time tactics of their console counterparts...
, the Blackfoot is a fast, highly maneuverable helicopter used by the elite American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
troops, the Joint Strike Force. It is armed with a 30 mm chain gun
Chain gun
A chain gun is a type of machine gun or autocannon that uses an external source of power, rather than diverting energy from the cartridge, to cycle the weapon, and does so via a continuous loop of chain similar to that used on a motorcycle or bicycle. "Chain gun" is a registered trademark of...
and Hydra 70
Hydra 70
The Hydra 70 rocket is a weapon derived from the 70 mm Mk 4/Mk 40 Folding-Fin Aerial Rocket developed by the United States Navy for use as a free-flight aerial rocket in the late 1940s.-Overview:...
unguided rockets, which can be augmented by AGM-169 Joint Common Missiles . Developed from the cancelled RAH-66 Comanche
RAH-66 Comanche
The Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche was an advanced five-blade armed reconnaissance and attack helicopter designed for the United States Army. The RAH-66 program was canceled in 2004, before mass production began, after nearly $7 billion was spent on the program.During the early 1980s, the U.S...
, it can engage other helicopters in air-to-air combat, but is not very effective, and is extremely vulnerable to fighter aircraft
Fighter aircraft
A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat with other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed primarily to attack ground targets...
.
Airwolf
AirwolfAirwolf (helicopter)
Airwolf is the helicopter from the 1980s American television series of the same name. The aircraft itself was a modified Bell 222 twin-engined light helicopter built by Bell Helicopter and owned by JetCopters Inc.-Bell 222:...
is the star of a 1984 TV series
Airwolf
Airwolf is an American television series that ran from 1984 until 1987. The program centers on a high-tech military helicopter, code named Airwolf, and its crew as they undertake various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme....
of the same name. It is an attack helicopter that is capable of supersonic
Supersonic
Supersonic speed is a rate of travel of an object that exceeds the speed of sound . For objects traveling in dry air of a temperature of 20 °C this speed is approximately 343 m/s, 1,125 ft/s, 768 mph or 1,235 km/h. Speeds greater than five times the speed of sound are often...
flight, has stealth capabilities and carries multiple retractable anti-armor, personnel and aircraft weaponry. During the run of the series, a second prototype, codename Red Wolf was developed. Its capabilities rivaled Airwolf's but included a laser weapon as well.
The Airwolf helicopters used in the series were modified Bell 222
Bell 222
The Bell 222 is a twin-engined light helicopter built by Bell Helicopter. The Bell 230 is an improved development with different engines and other minor changes. A cosmetically modified version of the 222 was used as the titular aircraft in the US television series Airwolf.-Development:In the late...
's.
Blue Thunder
A fictional police helicopter from the filmBlue Thunder
Blue Thunder is a 1983 feature film that features a high-tech helicopter of the same name. The movie was directed by John Badham and stars Roy Scheider...
and TV series
Blue Thunder (TV series)
Blue Thunder is a 1984 ABC TV series based on the movie of the same title featuring the Blue Thunder helicopter.The series used the converted Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopter and large portions of stock footage from the 1983 film. A ground unit named "Rolling Thunder" backed up the helicopter in...
of the same name. The helicopter is armed with a powerful head-tracked gatling gun in the nose, a whisper mode which makes it quiet and surveillance equipment like sensitive microphones (capable of recording a conversation inside a building with the helicopter hovering outside) and an infrared camera. The helicopter used in the film is a Aérospatiale Gazelle
Aérospatiale Gazelle
The Aérospatiale Gazelle is a five-seat light helicopter, powered by a single turbine engine. It was designed and manufactured in France by Sud Aviation . It was also manufactured under licence by Westland Aircraft in the United Kingdom , by SOKO in Yugoslavia and ABHCO in Egypt...
with a new nose section and faux canopy and wings bolted on. In the film it has a 2-man crew, but can still be effectively operated by a lone pilot. The helicopter was ultimately destroyed after its pilot succeeded in uncovering a group of subversive conspirators operating illegally within the United States Department of Justice
United States Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice , is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.The Department is led by the Attorney General, who is nominated...
that would also have embroiled the Los Angeles Police Department
Los Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California. With just under 10,000 officers and more than 3,000 civilian staff, covering an area of with a population of more than 4.1 million people, it is the third largest local law enforcement agency in...
had it remained undetected.
Cryocopter
In Red Alert 3, the Allies used Cryocopters made by Futuretech Corporation, which can either freeze or shrinkResizing (fiction)
Resizing , is a theme in fiction, in particular in fairy tales, fantasy, and science fiction.- Early instances in fiction :...
enemy units. The effect is temporary. Frozen units are easily disintegrated with a single shot. Shrunken units are faster but more fragile; they take more damage and deal less damage.
Eurocopter PAH-6 Cheetah
Also featured in EndWar, the PAH-6 is a speedy helicopter operated by the European Federation Enforcer Corps . It has a 30mm gun, Euromissile HOTEuromissile HOT
The HOT is a second-generation long-range anti-tank missile system developed originally as an effort to meet a joint German-French Army requirement, by the then German firm Bolkow and the French firm Nord, to replace the older SS.11 wire guided...
missiles, and rockets. It is a hydrogen vehicle
Hydrogen vehicle
A hydrogen vehicle is a vehicle that uses hydrogen as its onboard fuel for motive power. Hydrogen vehicles include hydrogen fueled space rockets, as well as automobiles and other transportation vehicles...
that was developed from the Eurocopter Tiger
Eurocopter Tiger
The Eurocopter Tiger is an attack helicopter manufactured by Eurocopter. In Germany it is known as the Tiger; in France and Spain it is called the Tigre.-Origins:...
. Unlike its American counterpart, the AH-80, the PAH-6 isn't good for aerial warfare
Aerial warfare
Aerial warfare is the use of military aircraft and other flying machines in warfare, including military airlift of cargo to further the national interests as was demonstrated in the Berlin Airlift...
, and it doesn't last very long.
G.I. Joe helicopters
- Cobra F.A.N.G.: The F.A.N.G. (Fully Armed Negator Gyrocopter) is a series of one man short range light-attack helicopters. It is equipped with four air-to-air heat-seeking rockets, and is designed for quick Cobra raids. The F.A.N.G. figured prominently in the comics and the first season of the G.I. Joe animated series. The F.A.N.G. was also featured in the 1985 G.I. Joe computer game. The F.A.N.G. II is an updated version of the original F.A.N.G. helicopter. It features rotating wings, a 20mm long range cannon, and six "AIMZ-33" air-to-air missiles.
- Cobra Mamba: Created during Serpentor's rule of Cobra, the Mamba is a dual blade supersonic attack helicopter. It features two detachable "MOLT" assault pods (Mamba Offensive Light Tactical), six missiles, and a NT-58 turbo-shaft engine. The Mamba maintains a crew of three, as the left and right pods are capable of independent flight.
- Desert Apache: The Desert Apache AH-74 helicopter was part of the G.I. Joe Sonic Fighters line. The toy featured electronic sounds, spring-loaded missile launchers, a 30mm chin gun, and a turbo-shaft thruster.
- Dragonfly XH-1: The Dragonfly is a fictional G.I. Joe attack helicopter. Similar in proportion to the Bell AH-1 Cobra gunship with tandem seating, the Dragonfly XH-1 features a chin-mounted gatling gun and flamethrower. Armed with four Sidewinder air-to-ground missiles, two Sidewinder H.E. missiles, and a dual M-34 grenade launcher/2mm Vulcan nose cannon mounted on the landing skids, it became a trademark for the G.I. Joe Team. Other features of interest are the winch system mounted on the bottom, as well as a non-rotor tail rudder design. The Dragonfly is featured in the 1985 G.I. Joe computer game.
- Locust: The Locust is a G.I. Joe attack copter/bomber. It features four air-to-air missiles, and a tinted blast-proof windscreen canopy.
- Retaliator: The Retaliator is a fictional helicopter for the G.I. Joe Team. It features a capture claw with built in winch hook, super-speed rotor blades, four missiles, and a bomb ramp with nine bombs.
- Skystorm: The Skystorm X-wing chopper is a hybrid G.I. Joe aircraft, based partially on the Sikorsky S-72Sikorsky S-72|-See also:-External links:* * *...
. It features a turbo-shaft engine, and is armed with two large bombs and four missiles. - Tomahawk: The TomahawkTomahawk (G.I. Joe)The G.I. Joe Tomahawk is a fictional all-weather, twin-engine, twin-rotor heavy lift/assault as well as troop carrier helicopter from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series of toys, comics and animated series produced by Hasbro. It has a top speed of 175 mph when fully loaded. Its...
is a multi-role twin rotor troop transit helicopter for the G.I. Joe Team. While not identical, the Tomahawk is similar in design to the MarineUnited States Marine CorpsThe United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...
CH-46 Sea KnightCH-46 Sea KnightThe Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight is a medium-lift tandem rotor transport helicopter, used by the United States Marine Corps to provide all-weather, day-or-night assault transport of combat troops, supplies and equipment. Assault Support is its primary function, and the movement of supplies and...
and the ArmyUnited States ArmyThe United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
CH-47 ChinookCH-47 ChinookThe Boeing CH-47 Chinook is an American twin-engine, tandem rotor heavy-lift helicopter. Its top speed of 170 knots is faster than contemporary utility and attack helicopters of the 1960s...
. It features twin 5-blade rotors set in tandem similar to a Chinook, but unlike the Chinook, the Tomahawk also has a large pitch tail rotor. The Tomahawk is armed with a large multi-barrel gatling gun system that is interlinked with a camera/ targeting system, 6 small externally mounted rockets, and two very large externally mounted missiles. Aside from the pilot and co-pilot, the Tomahawk has seating for 5 troops, with two laser-enhanced NVS .50 caliber machine guns mounted on either side of the door-less aft area. There is also a rear cargo ramp and large winch system.
Helix (fictional)
In Command & Conquer Generals: Zero HourCommand & Conquer: Generals
Command & Conquer: Generals is a real-time strategy game in the Command & Conquer series. Generals utilizes SAGE...
, the PLA
People's Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army is the unified military organization of all land, sea, strategic missile and air forces of the People's Republic of China. The PLA was established on August 1, 1927 — celebrated annually as "PLA Day" — as the military arm of the Communist Party of China...
can build a huge transport helicopter called Helix
Kamov Ka-27
|-See also:-External links:*...
, but it looks bigger than real Helix; it has a small cannon by default and later upgrade with gattling cannon, bunker, speaker tower, and napalm (Nuke General Tsing Si Tao can upgrade with tactical nuke, but Infantry General Shin Fai can only upgrade with bunker).
Hind (fictional)
In Red AlertCommand & Conquer: Red Alert
Command & Conquer: Red Alert is a real-time strategy computer game of the Command & Conquer franchise, produced by Westwood Studios and released by Virgin Interactive in...
universe, the Soviets used Hind as the backbone of their air power, can fire cannon against enemy ground targets; in Red Alert 2, its successor Siege Chopper has an additional function that using with a long-range cannon while landing; in Red Alert 3; it renamed into Twinblade, keeping its ability of firing rocket pods and cannon, but it can also carry 5 infantry or a tank.
HX-1
The HX-1 was an attack helicopter that was flown by Stringfellow Hawke's former army buddy in AirwolfAirwolf
Airwolf is an American television series that ran from 1984 until 1987. The program centers on a high-tech military helicopter, code named Airwolf, and its crew as they undertake various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme....
. It was armed with four nose-mounted guns and two missile pods. It was shot down by Airwolf during a dogfight. The HX-1 was based on the Sikorsky S-76
Sikorsky S-76
The Sikorsky S-76 is an American medium-size commercial utility helicopter. The S-76 is powered by two turboshaft engines, which drive both the main and tail rotors, each with four blades...
.
Kamov Ka-58 Black Ghost
In the computer game Act of War: High TreasonAct of War: High Treason
Act of War: High Treason is an expansion pack for Act of War: Direct Action. It is developed by Eugen Systems and published by Atari.-Plot:...
, the Consortium faction operates this dedicated stealth hunter-killer helicopter. Armed with deadly air-to-air missiles, the Ka-58 is used to establish local air superiority by destroying enemy helicopters and even fast-flying jet bombers. The Russian model manufacturer Zvezda also makes a model of the Black Ghost in 1/72 scale. Revell also makes a Ka-58 model in 1/72 scale.
Kamov Ka-65
With the NATO reporting nameNATO reporting name
NATO reporting names are classified code names for military equipment of the Eastern Bloc...
Howler, the Ka-65 is an aggressive-looking, fearsome helicopter used by the Spetsnaz
Spetsnaz
Spetsnaz, Specnaz tr: Voyska specialnogo naznacheniya; ) is an umbrella term for any special forces in Russian, literally "force of special purpose"...
. It is based on the Kamov Ka-50
Kamov Ka-50
The Kamov Ka-50 "Black Shark" is a single-seat Russian attack helicopter with the distinctive coaxial rotor system of the Kamov design bureau. It was designed in the 1980s and adopted for service in the Russian army in 1995...
. Shown in EndWar, it is armed with a 30 mm gun, rockets and guided missiles. It is often shown with a tiger face painted on the nose. Unlike its American and European counterparts, it can fight quite well air-to-air without getting shredded by enemy helicopters.
Scorpion Attack Helicopter
The Scorpion Attack Helicopter is a fictional attack helicopterHelicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by one or more engine-driven rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forwards, backwards, and laterally...
of unspecified origin that appears in the 1990 film Fire Birds
Fire Birds
Fire Birds is a 1990 action-thriller film directed by David Green and produced by William Badalato, Keith Barish and Arnold Kopelson. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Paul F. Edwards, Nick Thiel and David Taylor. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones and Sean Young...
. At least one of the type was shown being used by a South American drug cartel
Drug cartel
Drug cartels are criminal organizations developed with the primary purpose of promoting and controlling drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized commercial enterprises. The term was applied when the largest trafficking...
and piloted by highly skilled mercenaries, along with a pair of Saab Draken fighters
Fighter aircraft
A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat with other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed primarily to attack ground targets...
. The Scorpion has superior agility and speed compared to most other helicopters, notably the AH-1 Cobra
AH-1 Cobra
The Bell AH-1 Cobra is a two-bladed, single engine attack helicopter manufactured by Bell Helicopter. It shares a common engine, transmission and rotor system with the older UH-1 Iroquois...
and the UH-60 Black Hawk, easily destroying the aforementioned helicopters. Armed with unguided rocket
Rocket
A rocket is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle which obtains thrust from a rocket engine. In all rockets, the exhaust is formed entirely from propellants carried within the rocket before use. Rocket engines work by action and reaction...
s and machine guns, it is roughly equal in air combat capabilities to the AH-64 Apache
AH-64 Apache
The Boeing AH-64 Apache is a four-blade, twin-engine attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement, and a tandem cockpit for a two-man crew. The Apache was developed as Model 77 by Hughes Helicopters for the United States Army's Advanced Attack Helicopter program to replace the...
.
The real helicopter used for the film was a Hughes H-6
Hughes H-6
The Hughes OH-6 Cayuse is a single-engine light helicopter with a four-bladed main rotor used for personnel transport, escort and attack missions, and observation...
derivative, probably a Boeing
Boeing
The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...
MD500 Defender
Hughes H-6
The Hughes OH-6 Cayuse is a single-engine light helicopter with a four-bladed main rotor used for personnel transport, escort and attack missions, and observation...
. It was fitted with weapon pods and a nose mounted scope.
Strike Super Apache
The Super Apache is a fictional attack helicopter derived from the AH-64 ApacheAH-64 Apache
The Boeing AH-64 Apache is a four-blade, twin-engine attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement, and a tandem cockpit for a two-man crew. The Apache was developed as Model 77 by Hughes Helicopters for the United States Army's Advanced Attack Helicopter program to replace the...
, and first appears in the Strike
Strike series
Strike is the common name of a series of video games created by Mike Posehn, John Patrick Manley and Tony Barnes released between 1991 and 1997 by Electronic Arts for a number of video game systems. The games are multi-directional shooters shown from an isometric perspective...
series of video games by Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...
, specifically Soviet Strike and Nuclear Strike. Designed for special operations, the Super Apache serves as the player's primary vehicle.
The Super Apache looks identical to its real-world counterpart apart from the tail, which looks like it was based on the RAH-66 Comanche
RAH-66 Comanche
The Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche was an advanced five-blade armed reconnaissance and attack helicopter designed for the United States Army. The RAH-66 program was canceled in 2004, before mass production began, after nearly $7 billion was spent on the program.During the early 1980s, the U.S...
although the Super Apache has a tail in Soviet Strike and Nuclear Strike (this is slightly strange because the RAH-66 was built in 1995, three years after Desert Strike). It is a sophisticated two-seat attack helicopter armed with advanced electronics and air-ground weapons. However, to aid gameplay, there are some notable enhancements:
- Self-repairing "smart armor" that repairs and re-aligns damaged portions of the helicopter.
- A passenger compartment capable of carrying up to six people. It is also accessible from the cockpitCockpitA cockpit or flight deck is the area, usually near the front of an aircraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft. Most modern cockpits are enclosed, except on some small aircraft, and cockpits on large airliners are also physically separated from the cabin...
. In order to have room for the passengers the Super Apache must be significantly larger than the real-world Apache, since it looks identical externally. This makes the Super Apache similar to the real Mil Mi-28Mil Mi-28The Mil Mi-28 is a Russian all-weather day-night military tandem two-seat anti-armour attack helicopter. It is a dedicated attack helicopter with no intended secondary transport capability, better optimized than the Mil Mi-24 for the role...
Havoc, which has a small cargo compartment, intended to be used for rescue. - A cargo winchWinchA winch is a mechanical device that is used to pull in or let out or otherwise adjust the "tension" of a rope or wire rope . In its simplest form it consists of a spool and attached hand crank. In larger forms, winches stand at the heart of machines as diverse as tow trucks, steam shovels and...
to load passengers, fuelFuelFuel is any material that stores energy that can later be extracted to perform mechanical work in a controlled manner. Most fuels used by humans undergo combustion, a redox reaction in which a combustible substance releases energy after it ignites and reacts with the oxygen in the air...
, and ammunitionAmmunitionAmmunition is a generic term derived from the French language la munition which embraced all material used for war , but which in time came to refer specifically to gunpowder and artillery. The collective term for all types of ammunition is munitions...
. The Super Apache also has significant load-carrying abilities, capable of carrying loads as heavy as multiple ICBMs- a feat far beyond any modern aircraft, even the C-17C-17 Globemaster IIIThe Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft. Developed for the United States Air Force from the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas, the C-17 is used for rapid strategic airlift of troops and cargo to main operating bases or forward operating bases throughout...
. - Unlike the "normal" AH-64, the Super Apache does not need a separate gunner. It only requires one pilot to operate and engage the enemy effectively. The second crew member seems to simply be a co-pilot.
Remarkably, the Super Apache appears to lack the fire control Radar
Radar
Radar is an object-detection system which uses radio waves to determine the range, altitude, direction, or speed of objects. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain. The radar dish or antenna transmits pulses of radio...
seen on the AH-64D Longbow. Instead, it relies on sophisticated communications systems (called Strike-Net) and unseen assets such as AWACS and Satellite
Satellite
In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
imagery.
There is also a navalized variant called the Sea Apache, capable of carrying naval mines. It can be deployed from Sea Shadow-type warships.
Striker-VX
In Red Alert 3, Empire of the Rising SunJapan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
has no individual air force, but using a bipedal walker merged with helicopter's appearance named Striker-VX, which is using missile SAM while landing or AGM while flying.
Unidentified British Stealth Helicopter
In D.C. Alden's 2006 novel "Invasion" an advanced stealth helicopter (Dark Eagle) is deployed by retreating British forces to rescue the British Prime Minister from a London overrun by an "Arabian" military invasion. The helicopter is virtually invisible at night and to those standing under it the helicopter is almost silent except for nearby objects such as trees effected by the rushing air from the rotor blades.V-44
In Act of War: Direct ActionAct of War: Direct Action
Act of War: Direct Action is a real-time strategy game developed by Eugen Systems and published by Atari, Inc. The game was released in March 2005 and features a detailed story written by Dale Brown, a retired captain of the US Air Force and a bestselling author. An expansion pack called Act of...
, the V-44 is the large, four rotors-propelled transport helicopter of the United States' Task Force Talon. Its cargo bay can transport up to eight infantry units or two vehicles ; it can also function as a limited gunship against enemy infantry, being equipped with nose-mounted twin Gatling machine-guns
Gatling gun
The Gatling gun is one of the best known early rapid-fire weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun. It is well known for its use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was employed in combat...
. An stealth upgrade is available for the V-44, making the aircraft invisible until opening fire or being detected by an enemy recon unit.
Whispercraft
These Helicopter Jets are seen in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film The 6th DayThe 6th Day
The 6th Day is a 2000 American science fiction action thriller film directed by Roger Spottiswoode, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as family man Adam Gibson, who is cloned against his will in the future of 2015...
, both military and civilian versions. They have the ability to function as helicopters or jets depending on the mission. Similar in function to the real life Sikorsky X-Wing or the more recent Eurocopter X3
Eurocopter X3
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, but similar in styling to the RAH-66 Comanche
RAH-66 Comanche
The Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche was an advanced five-blade armed reconnaissance and attack helicopter designed for the United States Army. The RAH-66 program was canceled in 2004, before mass production began, after nearly $7 billion was spent on the program.During the early 1980s, the U.S...
.
Blohm & Voss BV 38
The Blohm & Voss BV 38 is a fictional aircraft portrayed in the film Raiders of the Lost ArkRaiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first film in the Indiana Jones franchise...
of the Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones
Colonel Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., Ph.D. is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg created the character in homage to the action heroes of 1930s film serials...
saga. It is a flying wing
Flying wing
A flying wing is a tailless fixed-wing aircraft which has no definite fuselage, with most of the crew, payload and equipment being housed inside the main wing structure....
airplane with two pusher-propellor engines and armed with two forward-firing cannons and an aft machine gun turret. In the film it is utilized by the forces of Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
for transporting the Ark of the Covenant
Ark of the Covenant
The Ark of the Covenant , also known as the Ark of the Testimony, is a chest described in Book of Exodus as solely containing the Tablets of Stone on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed...
from Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
to Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
. However the airplane is destroyed during a fight between Indiana Jones and Nazi forces in Egypt. The company Blohm & Voss is a real aircraft company that produced aircraft for Nazi Germany.
LZ-138
The LZ-138 is a zeppelinZeppelin
A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century. It was based on designs he had outlined in 1874 and detailed in 1893. His plans were reviewed by committee in 1894 and patented in the United States on 14 March 1899...
portrayed in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas. It is the third film in the Indiana Jones franchise. Harrison Ford reprises the title role and Sean Connery plays Indiana's father, Henry...
of the Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones
Colonel Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr., Ph.D. is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg created the character in homage to the action heroes of 1930s film serials...
saga. It appears to be nearly visibly identical to the Hindenburg except it has a structure at the bottom for attaching and carrying a small airplane with it, similar to the American dirigibles Akron and Macon.
'Stratos' series and TSR-2MS
In the anime/manga series Stratos 4Stratos 4
is an anime series by Studio Fantasia and Bandai Visual, and directed by Takeshi Mori. Originally spanning a 13-episode anime TV series, which premiered across Japan between January 5, 2003 to March 30, 2003, the series was continued onto three OVA-series sequels, the first of which was released on...
, two airborne weapons systems are used to counter meteorite clusters which threaten the survival of Earth.
The earlier "Stratos" series is a large aircraft, operated by the civilian Astro-crisis Management Organization. Manned by a flight crew of four, it carries a single anti-meteorite warhead, and is capable of ascending to the outer stratosphere after taking off from conventional runways. It is explained by one of the anime's main characters that the Stratos-series aircraft were retired due to their high cost and hazardous operating conditions. The only surviving example, "Stratos Zero", exists in a deteriorated state at Shimojijima Air Base in Japan.
The Stratos is almost identical in general appearance to the Convair B-58 Hustler strategic bomber of the late 1950s. However, instead of the Hustler's engine arrangement of two turbojets under each wing, mounted in separate nacelles, the Stratos uses two turbines mounted in the rear section of its fuselage. For upper stratospheric operations, the turbines are supplemented by an "RD 204" rocket motor, mounted at the base of the vertical rudder in the same manner as the Lockheed NF-104A
Lockheed NF-104A
The Lockheed NF-104A was an American mixed power, high-performance, supersonic aerospace trainer that served as a low cost astronaut training vehicle for the X-15 and projected X-20 Dyna-Soar programs....
.
By the end of the first series, Stratos Zero is restored to operating condition, and re-designated "Stratos 4".
The TSR-2MS (for "Meteor Sweeper") is said to be a direct replacement for the Stratos series aircraft, acting as surface backup for Trident missile-carrying shuttles based aboard satellites in Earth orbit.
The TSR-2MS appears to be a fictional development of the TSR-2 tactical strike bomber developed by British Aircraft Corporation
British Aircraft Corporation
The British Aircraft Corporation was a British aircraft manufacturer formed from the government-pressured merger of English Electric Aviation Ltd., Vickers-Armstrongs , the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Hunting Aircraft in 1960. Bristol, English Electric and Vickers became "parents" of BAC with...
in the early 1960s.
TSR-2MS is described as a Mach 3-capable light aircraft crewed by a pilot and navigator, powered by a similar engine arrangement and carrying similar armament to the Stratos series. For takeoff, the TSR is assisted by two RATO (Rocket-assisted takeoff) modules, and is launched in a ZeLL condition. ZeLL or Zero Length Launch, was tested by both NATO and the USSR during the cold War for a quick way to launch aircraft.
The TSR has a number of interesting technical features: the engine air intakes feature fixed shock cones which are supplemented by additional air-intake doors behind the intake lips and four-petal airbrakes similar to those on the Republic F-105 Thunderchief. The seating configuration is unusual for a high-performance aircraft, with the pilot and navigator lying on tandem "couches" in a semi-prone position (which seems designed more to showcase the shapeliness of its predominantly female pilots.)
In one episode, a TSR-2MS makes an emergency landing on Guam. An arrestor hook (typical of those equipping naval carrier-based fighter aircraft) is used to halt the plane. Many Western Combat aircraft have some sort of emergency arrestor hook, however neither the aircraft nor the hook are carrier capable and thus should not convince the viewer that the hook makes the aircraft carrier capable.
UD4L Cheyenne
Found in AliensAliens (film)
Aliens is a 1986 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron and starring Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, William Hope, and Bill Paxton...
, the Cheyenne dropship is the transport vehicle used to ferry the marines and their APC from orbit to the planet's surface.
Hunter-Killer robotic vehicles
First seen in The TerminatorThe Terminator
The Terminator is a 1984 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, co-written by Cameron and William Wisher Jr., and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton. The film was produced by Hemdale Film Corporation and distributed by Orion Pictures, and filmed in Los...
these unmanned vehicles (Aerial Hunter-Killer and Tank Hunter-Killer) are a family of combat robotics used by Skynet to wipe out survivors of a nuclear holocaust. In the Terminator franchise
Terminator (franchise)
The Terminator series is a science fiction franchise encompassing a series of films and other media concerning battles between Skynet's artificially intelligent machine network, and John Connor's Resistance forces and the rest of the human race....
, they have branched into multiple designs of varying sizes and purposes. What all Aerial HK share is that their jet engines are mounted on rotating pylons on the end of the center-mounted wing, allowing vertical takeoff and landing, hovering, and rotation in place while having the speed of a jet aircraft. The basic (as depicted in The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day) HK has a pair of engines (with a smaller third engine mounted on the tail in Terminator 3), a large plasma cannon mounted under the nose (variants in Terminator Salvation had twin cannons), and is used for air-to-ground combat (although a capable fighter too). Other variations include smaller models that can navigate inside buildings, large four-engine transport or heavy bomber models, early models armed with conventional guns, and the revised models seen in Terminator 3 and Terminator: Salvation. A nearly identical craft appears in the unrelated TV series Starhunter
Starhunter
Starhunter is a Canadian science fiction television series that aired for two seasons. The series was produced in Canada by The Danforth Studios Ltd. in association with Alliance Atlantis with some photography in the United Kingdom. Grosvenor Park Productions UK Ltd...
(2000–2001) as a type of human-piloted gunship.
GDI Orca VTOL series
The Orca is a series of VTOL aircraft appearing in the Command & ConquerCommand & Conquer
Command & Conquer, abbreviated to C&C and also known as Tiberian Dawn, is a 1995 real-time strategy computer game developed by Westwood Studios for MS-DOS and published by Virgin Interactive. It was the first of twelve games to date to be released under the Command & Conquer label, including a...
series of games. I is a ducted-fan hybrid craft which resembles the Moller Skycar. Most Orca models are armed with anti-tank missiles, though several variants, including a bomber, a tactical strike fighter, several dropships, and a large command vessel also exist. One of the later iterations also doubles as a scouting unit because its pulse scanners are capable of disrupting active camouflage technology. The latest Orcas are capable of acting as both air-to-ground strike gunships and fighters.
The design was partially used by the Brotherhod of Nod to create the Venom patrol craft, a VTOL with extremely sophisticated sensors, a machine gun and an underside mirror for directing long-range energy weapon fire. Unlike most Orcas, Venoms can also act as air superiority units if needed.
Ace Combat series
The Ace CombatAce Combat
Ace Combat is a hybrid arcade-simulation flight action video game series featuring 12 games, published by the Japanese company Namco Bandai Games...
series of video games, set on an alternate Earth, is well-equipped with modern fighter jets of several nations (fully licensed by their actual manufacturers), as well as several aircraft designed specifically for the game series.
- X-02 Wyvern: Multi-role fighter with "switchblade wings".
- ADF-01 Falken: Can be equipped with a Tactical Laser System, and has forward swept wings.
- ADFX-01 Morgan: Prototype of the ADF-01, which also has forward swept wings.
- XB-0 Hresvelgr: Massive flying wing bomber that also acts as a mobile airfield.
- Arkbird: A large Spacecraft build by Osea and Yuktobania, equipped with a high accuracy pinpoint laser
- CFA-44 Nosferatu: Estovakian superfighter that can be armed with a pair of small railguns or cluster missiles.
- P-1112 Aigaion: Flying wing airborne fortress and aircraft carrierAircraft carrierAn aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations...
armed with cruise missiles. - SSTO: Single-stage-to-orbit platform carrying a modular laser cannon for the Arkbird
- SOLG: Strategic Orbital Linear Gun, Built Partially by Osea and Yuktobania, and is secretly Finished By Belka, and is used by Belka to cause a nuclear war, believed to be controlled by Grunder Industries, an Military weapons supplier in the game.
- YR-302 Fregata: Ground attack aircraft with four powerful engines.
- XB- 337 Gleipnir: Leasaths secret flying fortress, equipped with: LRAAA (Long Range Air-to-Air Airburst) cannon, AO-ALBM (Airburst-Only Aircraft Launched ballistic missile) and optical camouflage.
- Fenrir: Leasaths superfighter, equipped with optical camouflage
- X49 Nightraven: extremely agile flying wing, equipped with a tactical laser and OSL (Orbital Satellite Laser)
- XR900 Geopelia: Arch like version of the X49 Nightraven with improved agility.
- R-10X (Delphinus)Series: Futuristic mind-controlled Dolphin-shaped fighters. The series consists of the R-101 Delphinus I, R-102 (II) and R-103 (III).
- R-201 Asterozoa: A heavy armored, air to ground catamaran shaped aircraft.
- UI4053: A large heavily defended blimp like flying fortress, capable of storing and launcing aircraft from its hangar inside.
- UI4054 Aurora: futuristic fighterplane with scramjet engine.
- GAF 1 Vacolac: Developed as a top secret project for the GA plan and has extreme maneuver capabilities.
- Orgoi: A giant highly maneuverable B2 bomber with several modifications.
- Spiridus: A bi-level, Enormous "aireal base" crammed with "Hi-TASIMS," "Electrolaser cannons" a railgun. It's covered with anti-aircraft weaponry.
- P-1112 Aigaion: An large aerial aicraft carrier used by the Estrovakian Military.
Simoun and Simile-Simoun series
The Simoun and Simile-Simoun series are fictional fighters that appears in the anime-film SimounSimoun (anime)
is a Japanese anime television series that was broadcast in Japan in 2006. It ran for 26 weekly episodes from 3 April to 25 September.A manga adaptation was published in three issues of Comic Yuri Hime. The manga shared the same characters and setting as the anime, but presented a different storyline...
.
A Simoun requires two pilots to lift-off
Takeoff
Takeoff is the phase of flight in which an aerospace vehicle goes from the ground to flying in the air.For horizontal takeoff aircraft this usually involves starting with a transition from moving along the ground on a runway. For balloons, helicopters and some specialized fixed-wing aircraft , no...
and steer in the air and, moreover, both of them must have not yet chosen their permanent sex (refer to background for explanation), since having done so permanently disqualifies a person from further piloting. Because of its sacred status in Simulacrum, only young priestesses of the Tempus Spatium faith are recruited as Simoun pilots and granted the title .
Originally, Simouns were produced by Simuracrum nation's engineers and designers for ceremonial craft pray to Goddess "Temps-Spatium" (of their religion).
But, due to the main lift "Helical Motor", it was envied by other nations and a war broke out to obtain that technology. Thus, Simouns are armed with minigun
Minigun
The Minigun is a 7.62 mm, multi-barrel heavy machine gun with a high rate of fire , employing Gatling-style rotating barrels with an external power source...
s and Ri Mājon
Simoun (mecha)
are fictional aircraft featured in the eponymous anime series by Studio Deen and its manga adaptations. The Simoun are considered sacred objects in the Tempus Spatium faith because of their ability to conjure powerful magical spells known as Ri Mājons by flying in predefined patterns in the...
, and appear as enormous luminous glyph
Glyph
A glyph is an element of writing: an individual mark on a written medium that contributes to the meaning of what is written. A glyph is made up of one or more graphemes....
s in the sky, which, once completed, conjure magical effects of tremendous power.
The Similes are scaled-down simple model versions of Simouns, which were mainly used for training. But with the war raging, Simile-Simouns were armed with machine guns or miniguns and had single and dual cockpit configurations. They have similar designs, but with only a single, and somewhat, simpler Helical Motor.
The Blackbird
The original BlackbirdBlackbird (comics)
The Blackbird is the aircraft used by the fictional superhero team the X-Men. There have been several incarnations of this craft over the years, with Cyclops and Storm as the main pilots.-History:...
used by the X-Men is a modified SR-71 Blackbird. The Blackbird is depicted as having vertical takeoff
VTOL
A vertical take-off and landing aircraft is one that can hover, take off and land vertically. This classification includes fixed-wing aircraft as well as helicopters and other aircraft with powered rotors, such as cyclogyros/cyclocopters and tiltrotors...
capability, which the actual SR-71 does not. It has also been modified to carry several passengers. After the original X-Men rejoined the team Professor Xavier commissioned Forge to build two new planes, still dubbed Blackbirds but no longer looking like the SR-71.
Stealth F
Fictional reconnaissance aircraft, appears in poet Alen Pol Kobryn'sAlen Pol Kobryn
Alen Pol Kobryn, is an American poet, novelist, and voice actor.Kobryn was educated at Johns Hopkins and New York University, and studied with John Ashbery at the City University of New York....
novel Poseidon's Shadow, published by Scribner
Charles Scribner's Sons
Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing a number of American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon...
in 1979, Dell
Dell Publishing
Dell Publishing, an American publisher of books, magazines and comic books, was founded in 1921 by George T. Delacorte, Jr.During the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, Dell was one of the largest publishers of magazines, including pulp magazines. Their line of humor magazines included 1000 Jokes, launched in...
and New English Library
New English Library
The New English Library was a United Kingdom book publishing company, which became an imprint of Hodder Headline.- History :New English Library was created in 1961 by the Times Mirror Company of Los Angeles, with the takeover of two small British paperback companies, Ace Books Ltd and Four Square...
in 1980 – amongst the earliest known instances of explicit reference to stealth technology.
Aircraft in Nevil Shute novels
Nevil ShuteNevil Shute
Nevil Shute Norway was a popular British-Australian novelist and a successful aeronautical engineer. He used his full name in his engineering career, and 'Nevil Shute' as his pen name, in order to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels.-...
, an aircraft designer by background, often included fictional aircraft in his novels. These include:
- Rutland Reindeer – an airliner at the center of the plot of No Highway (filmed as No Highway in the SkyNo Highway in the SkyNo Highway in the Sky is a 1951 British disaster film directed by Henry Koster and starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich...
). It was a six-engine, low-wing monoplane with a structural weakness (fatigue) in the tail. - Assegai – the first supersonic fighter, also in No Highway.
- Plymouth Tramp (British), Cornell Carrier (U.S.) – both high-wing, twin-engine cargo transports appearing in Round the Bend.
- De Havilland Ceres – a luxurious jet transport used to transport the Queen and her family in In the Wet (though De HavillandDe HavillandThe de Havilland Aircraft Company was a British aviation manufacturer founded in 1920 when Airco, of which Geoffrey de Havilland had been chief designer, was sold to BSA by the owner George Holt Thomas. De Havilland then set up a company under his name in September of that year at Stag Lane...
was a real company). - Rawdon Rat, Robin, Ratcatcher, Rabbit and Runt (proposed!) all World War I fighters and Reindeer (World War I bomber) in Stephen MorrisStephen Morris (novel)Stephen Morris and Pilotage are two short novels by Nevile Shute; the first novels he wrote after writing poetry and short stories. Stephen Morris was finished in 1923 while Shute was working at Stag Lane for de Havillands, and Pilotage was written in 1924...
. - Cosmos – a seaplane in "An Old CaptivityAn Old CaptivityAn Old Captivity is a novel by British author Nevil Shute. It was first published in the UK in 1940 by William Heinemann.-Plot summary:The principal character is a young Scottish pilot with bush-flying experience in Canada, Donald Ross, who is hired by an Oxford don, Cyril Lockwood, to pilot an air...
".
These were discussed at length in 2004 on the Nevil Shute Norway Foundation Discussion Board at:-
http://www.nevilshute.org/Discus/messages/15/46.html?1116799539
Sentō Yōsei Yukikaze
An anime depicting future warfare against an alien race, this short series is noted for featuring futuristic aircraft designs and technology that cannot be built with current aircraft fabrication techniques, nor fly with the computational power of today's fly-by-wire computers.- Super Sylph B-503 "Yukikaze" – An air-suvelliance/air-superiority military aircraft, and the title machine of the series, piloted by the main character, Lieutenant Rei Fukai. The reason for its naming as "Yukikaze" is to identify the A.I. installed in the machine; for all purposes, the A.I. is smart enough to arm and fire the jet's weapons itself and can even control the aircraft independent of the pilot, though it seldom exercises its abilities to do so, except in times of need.
- FRX-00 Mave – An improved version of the Super Sylph.
- FRX-99 Rafe – Unmanned version of the Mave.
- JAM Fighter – Air-superiority jets used by the JAM, the alien race in question. Highly effective against older models of human aircraft.
- JAM Electronics Warfare Fighter – A JAM fighter with an added radome. It was first seen in use disrupting A.I.-controlled units and was highly instrumental in the ensuing incidents of friendly fire.
D77-TC Pelican
Fictional two-seater cargo ship from the HaloHalo (series)
Halo is a multi-million dollar science fiction video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant...
series. It could carry up to 10 troops inside, including a Mongoose ATV-like vehicle. The Pelican also can carry a Scorpion armored tank or a Warthog light scout vehicle or a troop carrying vehicle with a magnetic holder. It is armed with or without a 40mm gatling gun and 2 missile pods, all of which are operated by the pilot.
AV-14 Hornet
Fictional aircraft from the HaloHalo (series)
Halo is a multi-million dollar science fiction video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant...
series. It is a single-seat VTOL
VTOL
A vertical take-off and landing aircraft is one that can hover, take off and land vertically. This classification includes fixed-wing aircraft as well as helicopters and other aircraft with powered rotors, such as cyclogyros/cyclocopters and tiltrotors...
aircraft, armed with 2 gatling guns and 2 missile pods. It can carry 2 soldiers on its jumpseats, and is used for close air support and air to air roles.
UH-144 Falcon
Fictional tilt-rotor aircraft from the HaloHalo (series)
Halo is a multi-million dollar science fiction video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant...
series. It's a single-seat that carries up five troops. Normally (in multiplayer) armed with door-mounted machine guns, but in Campaign it always has a chin-mounted chaingun, and its doorguns can be absent or replaced with automatic grenade launchers and machine guns.
GA-TL1 Longsword
Fictional A/X strike fighter from the HaloHalo (series)
Halo is a multi-million dollar science fiction video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant...
series. Although considered an average space interceptor within the franchise, it has the size (and shape) of a B-2 Spirit
B-2 Spirit
The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit is an American heavy bomber with low observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses and deploy both conventional and nuclear weapons. The bomber has a crew of two and can drop up to eighty -class JDAM GPS-guided bombs, or sixteen ...
. Armed with 105 and 120 mm cannons.
U/AV-17 Hawk
The main aircraft from the Resistance series. The U/AV-17 Hawk is a U.S. VTOL combat transport and light armor. When delivering soldiers, the Hawk swivels its rotors to direct downwash away from the jump doors. This allows soldiers to fast-rope down while under cover of the .30 caliber door guns. Once its cargo is away, the Hawk's versatility means it can loiter to offer tactical support or quickly return to be loaded for another deployment. It has the ability to carry a M12 Sabretooth light tank for a short distance for quick armour support. Its armermant is usually either two .30 calibre door guns, or two .50 calibre guns. It also makes use of a twin 20mm gatling gun underneath the cockpit for gun runs. The basis of this aircraft comes from the V-22 in use with the United States Marine Corps and USAF.P-1117 Kingfisher
The British P-1117 Kingfisher is derived from early designs of the American U/AV-17. The Kingfisher is exceedingly able at inserting soldiers into combat situations. At present, all remaining Kingfishers are in the service of British Intelligence. They have been largely regulated to the role of aerial reconnaissance and combat coordination.In Resistance: Retribution, it has shown to be used by the Maquis as well.
In the first cutscene, it was shown to be used for paratrooper insertion at a high altitude over Rotterdam.
Unidentified cargo transport
In Resistance 2, a cargo plane is seen in us and appears to be derived from the C-130 Hercules family.Giga Fortress
In the PC game Red Alert 3: Uprising, Empire of the Rising SunJapan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
developed a massive robotic vessel called Giga Fortress, can move on water or fly in the sky. Players must pay $6,300 to build a Giga Fortress Nanocore from Imperial Docks
Shipyard
Shipyards and dockyards are places which repair and build ships. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance and basing activities than shipyards, which are sometimes associated more with initial...
then deploying on water, and it must take a bit of time to unpack into a fully assembled Giga Fortress. When deployed, the Giga Fortress on the sea can fire missiles and cannons; when it flies to the sky, it can launch a devastating laser cannon can cause lethal damages in a line.
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