The UKSAF has announced that the F-10 Procurement Competition has officially begun today. They have stated the following list of requirements for the aircraft designs: -Must be in 1.0.2 -Stock aerodynamics -All Mods allowed with the exception of tweakscale -Must be a completely custom aircraft(no stock planes, no downloaded from elsewhere planes, no copies of real life planes, etc... Build it yourself from the ground up) -Only one entry per person -Once you comment with your entry you cannot change it -Must use BD armory -This will be an air to air interdiction fighter -under 15 tons(15 tons includes only main gun ammunition and internal fuel storage, all other weapons such as missiles and also external fuel tanks if you wish to include them do not count towards the 15 tons) -under 45,000 dollars not including weapons -must have 6+ mounting hard points -must have at least 1 countermeasure pod -must have at least one main gun(any caliber) and at least 300 rounds of ammunition per gun(stored internally) -Must have at least 250 gallons of fuel per engine stored internally -Must have the ability to utilize detachable external fuel tanks that can be jettisoned while inflight without damaging the aircraft(must have the ability to attach a small decoupler, can take up one mounting hard point per fuel tank) -must be able to go 300m/s under 1,000 meters and 500m/s between 5,000 and 8,000 meters -Must be able to take off at speeds under 100 m/s and before passing the control tower on the KSC main runway -Must be able to roll and climb vertically immediately after liftoff(so it can perform combat take offs) -Must be able to perform short/unimproved runway takeoff and landing(island airstrip off the coast of main KSC) -Must be able to perform agile high speed and high G maneuvers -Must be sturdy so it doesn't break apart during high G flight or from barely being hit -If it isn't listed here as a requirement then assume it is not one -must look cool(this is a fighter jet after all) -From the time of this post the competition has started. You have until 2359 eastern standard time on May 24th to submit your entry. To enter comment here with a link to the craft file and whatever else you want to add but you don't have to add anything else if you don't want to. After the time limit is up I will judge the craft that are submitted and then announce the 3 finalists and say what I liked and did not like about each of their designs. After the finalists are chosen they will have 3 days from the time of my comment to make any changes that they feel are necessary to their aircraft.(minor tweaks only, fine tuning wings, gimbals, and adding or removing small parts. The final aircraft must still resemble the initially submitted aircraft.) After that period they must comment back with the new link to their new craft file and I will test their final design and announce a winner after I have decided. Good luck and thank you in advance for your submissions! This is the UKSAF's hanger containing all of their current and retired aircraft and equipment. Feel free to view and download for inspiration. The aircraft that is being replaced is the F9 Wasp family of jets(mini wasp, v-wasp, and super wasp) http://kerbalx.com/hangars/1703
You have to post a link to the craft file to enter the jet in the competition.