FD AU 2

No I haven't fallen off the face of the earth (yet), just back studying again. That said, hasn't stopped me musing over things. What follows is one of those things. Enjoy.

McMillan P.1100 Ishtar

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Abstract:
The Ishtar (East Semitic Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex), is the first fifth generation combat aircraft designed wholly in Atlantia to fly. Its origins can be traced back to the beginning of what would become the F-35 program of which Atlantia had been a member (up until 2000 when not having the Atlantian design shortlisted caused Atlantia to leave before further development continued). The proof of concept / technology demonstrator (P.1099) first flew in August 2001 and made numerous test flights to gather data to refine the design. By 2008 there were four prototype airframes flying (2X-MMZA, ZB, ZC and ZD) around about this time AAe got involved as a development partner rather than a contractor resulting in the construction of 2X-AAZZ to further develop the design. In 2009 2X-MMZC was performing high alpha tests when the pilot reported a dual flameout, despite efforts to recover into controlled flight the aircraft entered a flat spin at around 12,000ft and crashed into a forest resulting in the death of the test pilot. Despite the loss of one of the most experienced test pilots in Atlantia and the loss of an airframe, development continued until in 2012 McMillan declared that the aircraft was ready for full scale production.

Design:
The Ishtar is a twin engined, tailless, trapezoidal winged aircraft incorporating low-observability design features.
The Ishtar like the Redcap makes use of the now fully developed engine produced by Babcock-Weisz known as the Enfield. The engine is a development of their earlier Hippogriff.
Whilst no orders have yet been penned McMillan remain confident that the future will bring orders due to the fact that currently the only real competition it has is the F-22 with the F-35 still having problems.

Further Developments:

Improvements to ECM/EW system
Reduced RCS conformal fuel tanks and drop tanks
Integrate centreline weapon pod to wing hardpoints
Navalised Ishtar (P.1101S).

General Characteristics:

Crew: 1
Length: 16.5m
Wingspan: 14.5m
Wing Area: 83.99m²
Height: 3.9m (landing gear retracted) - 4.9m (landing gear down)
Empty Weight: 16050kg
Loaded Weight: 25550kg
Max. Takeoff Weight: 35000kg
Powerplant: 2x Babcock-Weisz Enfield BW-130 afterburning turbofans with 3D vectoring nozzles
Dry Thrust: 220.05kN (Combined)
Wet Thrust: 295.31kN (Combined)
Fuel Capacity:
- 9000kg (internal)
- 11450kg (internal + conformal tanks)
- 14720kg (as above with the addition of two 2270L droptanks)

Performance Characteristics:

Max. Speed (Hi): 2300km/h (@13716m)
Max. Speed (Lo):1629km/h (@ Sea Level)
Max. Sustainable speed: 2575km/h (@13716m)
Ferry Range: 3740km (with conformal tanks and two 2000l droptanks)
Combat Radius: 1850-1875km (hi-lo-hi - with conformal tanks and two 2000l droptanks)
A2A Combat Radius: 1350km (with 10m loitering time - 50% fuel, 4x MRAAMs and internal gun ammunition)
Wing Loading: 399.1kg/m²
T/W Ratio: 1.135 (@ normal loaded weight at full military power)
Rate of Climb: 335m/s

Avionics and Sensors:

Radar: AAe Daywalker-I - 1700T/R nodes with Lycanthrope L-band supplementary antennas with 120° azimuth control via a swashplate arrangement)[/i]
EO/IRST: AAe FLEO (Hybrid of ideas from Thales' FSO/OSF and F-35 EOTS - 4 target tracking at 150km, 50km effective ranged FLIR and LRF)
Electronic Warfare: AAe Phalanx (Multi-spectral system with a cacophony of receivers and emitters as well as integral chaff/flare dispensers and infra-red/laser jammers)
Cockpit Systems:
- Elbit Cockpit NG system (Not dissimilar to upgrades proposed for Rhino and F-15)
- Side mounted HOTAS
- Martin Baker Mk.16a 0-0 ejection seat

Armament:

Stations: 7(+internal carriage) (1x centreline (heavy), 2x inboard (wet), 2x midboard (wet) and 2x outboard
Notes: Internal bays can accommodate stores up to the size of a Mk84 or equivalent sized store. An example loadout is two GBU-31 2000lb GPS/INS guided bombs and two AIM-120Cs. The aircraft can also accommodate a conformal weapons pod under the fuselage (currently, wing pods are under development) capable of carrying a single Mk83 or Mk84 sized weapon, two Mk82 sized weapons or six SDBs as well as in the case of Mk82s and SDBs a pair of AIM-120s or similar weapons. The pod is also capable of deploying 4 AIM-120s in lieu of other stores.
Payload: Up-to 9450kg
Fixed Weapons: 1 (Customer specified out of: BK-27, GIAT 30 or M621 with between 150 and 275rds per gun)
Air-to-Air Missiles
- AIM-9 Sidewinder (External & Internal)
- AIM-120 AMRAAM (External & Internal)
- AIM-132 ASRAAM (External & Internal)
- AIM-2000 IRIS-T (External & Internal)
- Rafael Python 3,4 and 5 (External & Internal)
- Rafael Derby (External & Internal)
- Meteor BVRAAM (Currently External pending clipped fin version)
Air-to-Ground Missiles
- AGM-154 JSOW (External & Internal)
- MBDA Storm Shadow
- MBDA SPEAR (External & Internal)
- MBDA Dual-Mode Brimstone (External & Internal)
- Taurus KEPD350
- Taurus MP
- Kongsberg NSM
- Kongsberg JSM
Guided Bombs
- GBU-10,12 and 16 Paveway II (External) (GBU-12 Internal)
- GBU-22, 23 and 24 Paveway III (External) (GBU-22 Internal)
- GBU-31, 32 and 38 JDAM (External & Internal)
- GBU-54, 55 and 56 L-JDAM (External & Internal)
- GBU-39 and 53 SDB (External & Internal)
- CBU-103, 104 and 105 WCMDs (External)
Unguided Bombs
- Mk81, 82, 83 and 84 (External & Internal)
- MBDA BANG 125, 250 and 1000 (External & Internal)
- CBU-87, 89 and 97 (External)
Rockets
- CRV7 in LAU-5002 / 5003 pods (Plus guided derivatives)
- Hydra 70 in LAU-61 / 68 pods (Plus guided derivatives)
- Various droptanks including 1250L, 1750,L 2000L and 2275L capacity models (Yet to be cleared for flight except for the 1750L tanks)

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