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My first drawing using FD scale
A-13
Crew: 1
Length: 11.32 m
Wingspan: 11.12 m
Height: 3.35 m
Wing area: 32.06 m
Powerplant: 1 × Rolls-Royce RB.44 Tay turbojet engine
Armament
Guns: 2× 30 mm cannons with 120 rounds per gun
Rockets: 40 air-to-air rockets in retractable pack
Bombs: 1,000 kg of payload on four external hardpoints, including a variety of bombs, rockets or Drop tanks
History:
In the early 50s, while the world was recovering from World War II, the Mexican State developed the first transonic aircraft named the FA-137 and they had been spotted routinely to be flown in to official Pacific airspace. In response Boeing was tasked with the creation of a counter to the FA-137. 3 designs had been proposed, but only one had been made into a working prototype; that being the YA-13. In a desire to fast-track the process from testing to implementation, Boeing Chairman Clairmont L. Egtvedt was bribed by the official government to skip over "non-important tests" in order for production to begin quickly. Produced from 1953-1958 over 350 of the A-13s were produced with exports including: Republic of New England, Saudi Arabia, and the Australian Empire. Use of these fighter-bombers in the "Pacific intervention in Panama" allowed the Air Corp to destroy 32 imported MiG-15s as well as 46 armored vehicles in return for only 5 shot down out of the 50 total sent. By 1965 a majority had been taken out of front line duty with the more specialized A-15 coming into service. The last of the A-13s were officially taken out of service by 1982 were they had been used as trainers, however at least 5 have been spotted to be in use in the 1992 Irani Civil War.