B-75 Silver Talon Combat Aircraft (with Bahamut Dynamics Armory) (Design Update)

[Coga19000]

I have had many tries at making space-cpable attack craft, but (as with peaceful SSTOs) I didn't really have quite a success -some of them actually had a good performance, but yeah, not enough payload for me and godawful on aesthetics (I really care about aesthetics)

So, I just decided to scrap this idea and just go all in for an atmospheric attack aircraft. However, having much easier-to-accomplish requirements to fullfil, I found a good lot of things it "could still handle", and it wasn't hard for me to sidetrack.

And well, behold to the behemoth I ended up with when I was done:

Well, I know I for one second sounded like it was awful.

Anyways, this, is the B-75 Silver Talon (ignore the B-130 APB shown at the first picture), an all-purpose atmospheric attack aircraft. Its armament includes:

• 2 Mk.20 Cluster Bombs (in Cargo Bay)
  
• 2 .50cal turrets (on top of the wings, 2 ammo boxes in Cargo Bay)
  
• 1 USAF Airborne Laser (on top of the fuselage, Bateries and RTGs in Cargo Bay)
  
• 2 Hidden Vulcans (under the wings, 2 Ammo Boxes in Cargo Bay)
  
• 4 AGM-114 Hellfires (under the wings)
  
• 6 Hydra-70 Rocket Pods (under the wings)
  
• 2 AGM-65 Mavericks (under the wings)
  
• 2 AIM-120 AMRAAMs (under the wings)
  
• 2 AIM-9X Sidewinders (at the tips of the wings)
  
• 2 Mk.82 SnakeEye Bomb (under the wings)
  
• 4 Countermeasue Pods (under the wings)
  

(nothing is assigned to Action Groups)

See? Long-Range Heavy Anti-Air, Short-Range Anti-Air, Aerial Self-Defense, Missile Defense, (mild) Dogfight, Ground Attack, Bombing, Long-Range Strike... it has everything. It is an all-around vehicle.

Performance Tests show those capabilities (all performed with full armament):

• Effective Service Ceiling: 14-15 kilometers
  
• Maximum Servive Ceiling (very difficult to accomplish because of lack of intake air): 16.840 meters
  
• Effective Maximum Speed (at service ceiling): 500m/s (sonic flight)
  
• Maximum Speed (at service ceiling) (impossibly hard to maintain for lack of intake air): 700m/s (supersonic flight)
  
• Maximum Glide Time (from service ceiling): 16 minutes 48 seconds
  
• Range: Not fully tested, suspectedly able of circling the globe
  
• Mediocre Maneuverability, flies better with SAS (may just be because of my awful flying skillz)
  
• Easy landing (it would be if I did ntot try to land it turned 45 degrees from its prograde heading )
  
• Easy takeoff (almost STOL -compared to its size- if at full thrust)
  
• Able for emergency water landing (the craft is unlikely to survive, but the intakes are at the sides of the cockpit, which will therefore float beautifully!)
  
• Able for emergency landing with one intact wing (once again, only the cockpit will survive; and even that is not guaranteed)
  
• Remote Control Capability (Mk.2 Drone Core included)(well, not that big of a deal I quess
  

Well, that's more or less it. Hope you enjoy flying this thing around, and if you have any advice on how to improve this design, I'll be happy to hear them.

Craft file:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/81tzfv18y1x6uz1/B-130%20APB.craft?dl=0

Edited December 8, 2014 by Coga19000

[Coga19000]

Actually, I decicded that this design was underworked upon, and I decided to give it some more love: After another Vulcan, 6 more intakes (MOAR INTAKES is for me the plane equivalent of MOAR BOOSTER), and 2 RAPIERs (just found out how awesome those really are), we got the XB-75a!

It is still not fully SSTO, as I had to compromise between having enough Oxidizer to get into orbit and havign enough Liquid Fuel for atmospheric operation afterwards without stretching the fuselage, but testing with the Oxidizer in the Adapter let me conduct the current tests:

• Effective Service Ceiling: around 21 kilometers (lack of Intake Air, without counting for Closed Cycle mode)
  
• Maximum Service Ceiling: 34.201 meters (achievable with Jet Mode after accelerating with CLosed Cycle once, descending and ascending again)(may actually be easier, I am not sure)
  
• Maximum Safe Operational Speed (at Effectine Servive Ceiling): 883 m/s (supersonic)
  

• Maximum Operational Speed (at Maximum Service Ceiling): 1440 m/s (suborbital speeds) (can be sustained up down to 12 kilometers height)*
  
• Maximum Glide Time (from Effective Service Ceiling): 16 minutes 30 seconds
  
• Similar Maneuverability to B-75
  
• Landing and Take-off: Well, everything that can land on a 55 degree hillside and take off from it takes my seal of approval
  

• Can follow a rocket-style launch profile (nose straight up), and recover after engine flameout at the end of said maneuver
  
• As the previous version, it can perform an emergency landing in water, and emergency *landing* with one intact wing.
  

*I got the disturbing temperature of 683C on my Cockpit while at maximum speed and using Deadly Reentry, which it endured, but restricted me from pushing it further. I can only quess FAR users will not have the most stable plane under the reentry effects I encountered (picture lost for some reason, and too lazy to replicate the effect )

Craft Link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pjj5dmf1ame39b6/B-75a.craft?dl=0

[Coga19000]

Anyone knows how I can check the downloads number at Dropbox?

[Hodo]

Anyone knows how I can check the downloads number at Dropbox?

You cant, I would use kerbalX.

[Coga19000]

You cant, I would use kerbalX.

What is that, and hope do I use it?

[gmpd2000]

This: http://kerbalx.com/

[Hodo]

What is that, and hope do I use it?

I can say I love that site now that I use it. It is pretty cool, one of the best ideas in a long long while, if any website were to become stock this should be one of them.

[Coga19000]

Hmmm, does seem interesting. I'll get up a new link as soon as I get my hands on a computer.

[Guest]

Anyone knows how I can check the downloads number at Dropbox?

As far as I know, it will send you an E-mail weekly saying "Your shared link got ... views this week" or so.