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Grunder Industries releases a new Cat.


Aiden Ford

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Well, Tomcat to be honest. However, YES, the Tomcat has gotten a face lift for all of those Militaries who are looking for a new edge for their old birds. The F-14E Zipang has been released. Its Specifications are included in a pamphlet located below

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General characteristics

* Crew: 2 (Pilot and Radar Intercept Officer)

* Length: 62 ft 9 in (19.1 m)

* Wingspan:

o Spread: 64 ft (19.55 m)

o Swept: 38 ft (11.58 m)

* Height: 16 ft (4.88 m)

* Wing area: 565 ft² (54.5 m²)

* Airfoil: NACA 64A209.65 mod root, 64A208.91 mod tip

* Empty weight: 43,735 lb

* Loaded weight: 63,000 lb

* Max takeoff weight: 85,600 lb

* Powerplant: 2× Lyulka AL-31FP turbofans, 131 kN (29,449 lbf) each

Performance

* Maximum speed: Mach 2.35 (2,500 km/h) at 11,000 m (36,000 ft)

* Range: 1,270 km, 690 nautical miles

* Service ceiling: 17,300 m (56,800 ft)

* Rate of climb: >304 m/s (70,000 ft/min)

* Wing loading: 113.4 lb/ft² (553.9 kg/m²)

* Thrust/weight: 1.07 (at loaded weight)

Armament

* Guns: 1× 20 mm (0.787 in) M61 Vulcan Gatling Gun, with 675 rounds

* Hardpoints: 10 total: 6× under-fuselage, 2× under nacelles and 2× on wing gloves with a capacity of 14,500 lb (6,600 kg) of ordnance and fuel tanks,

* Missiles:

AIM-54 Phoenix, AIM-7 Sparrow, AIM-9 Sidewinder, AIM-120 AMRAAM, R-27R/AA-10A/Astra, R-27T (AA-10B), R-27P (AA-10C), R-77 (AA-12), R-73 (AA-11), Kh-59ME TV guided standoff Missile, Kh-59MK Laser guided standoff Missile, Kh-35Anti-Ship Missile, PJ-10 Bramhos Supersonic Cruise Missile,, Kh-31P/A anti-radar missile

, Kh-29T/L laser guided missile, 30 km

* Bombs:

o JDAM Precision-guided munition (PGMs)

o Paveway series of Laser guided bombs

o Mk 80 series of unguided iron bombs

o Mk 20 Rockeye II

* Others:

o LITENING targeting pod or

o 2× 267 Gallon drop tanks for extended range/loitering time

Avionics

* Hughes AN/APG-71 radar

* AN/ASN-130 INS, IRST, TCS

Included in the Pamphlet is a DVD of a Simulation that shows the Zipang in action. However, keep in mind, it was a Simulation, and we did give our Pilots the Liberty of Nearly Unlimited Ammunition for the sake of good shots.

OOC: God, I love that paint scheme.

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Grunder Industries has announced, that they wish to host a advanced aerial combat training exercise, known as Red Flag. This Exercise is open to All Naval Aircraft(F-14, F-18, F-35, Harrier, Yak-141, Yak-36, F-4, you get my drift.).

Each nation that participates shall have to supply their own Air Crews, Aircraft, and be prepared for Random Assignment to either Blue Team, or Red Team.

Grunder Industries shall be submitting

# VF-1 Wolfpack(F-4)

# VF-2 Bounty Hunters(F-4)

# VF-21 Freelancers(F-14A)

# VF-24 Fighting Renegades (F-14A)

# VF-51 Screaming Eagles (F-14A)

# VF-111 Sundowners (F-14E)

# VF-114 Aardvarks (F-14E)

# VF-154 Black Knights (F-14E)

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We question the 'naval' aircraft section of this fight, as we can and do launch planes larger than single seat fighters off our Carriers, up to our YF-45 supersonic strike bombers, would they be allowed to compete?

Your carriers must be massive, carry alot of fuel and bombs and must have massively powerful catapults. Naval planes are built for a reason. They are usually multi role and are small enough to fit many of them on the ship but also fast to do any mission. If you you feel the need to launch larger aircraft, you may need to evaluate how you operate with navy forces.

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All Orders are being processed, and the units will be shipped within the week.

Furthermore, could we get some statistics to these Fighters so that we may determine if they are really navalized, or if you decided to build a giant mobile island instead of a real Aircraft Carrier.

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Your carriers must be massive, carry alot of fuel and bombs and must have massively powerful catapults. Naval planes are built for a reason. They are usually multi role and are small enough to fit many of them on the ship but also fast to do any mission. If you you feel the need to launch larger aircraft, you may need to evaluate how you operate with navy forces.

You are obviously ignorant of matched speed take off and landing techniques and technology. How ever, you are right, we can only carry a limited number of these bombers and still we have to sacrifice space that is normally used for our Interceptor X or Weasel II models and their ordnance.

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