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McMillan P.1071 Redcap

Abstract:
The McMillan Redcap is a twin-engined CC Canard-compound delta wing multi-role combat aircraft. The Redcap can trace its origins back to 1983 with a private venture to offer a home grown competitor to the F-16 / F-18 series of aircraft. Whilst the project did yield some results it was decided to start anew with an aircraft of comparable quality and capability to the new "eurocanard" designs. The first prototype flew on June 16th 1995.
The Redcap has yet to enter active service with any air arm around the world but several are used by the Atlantian equivalent to QinetiQ for DACT and as trials aircraft.

Design:
The Redcap like its European counterparts is an aerodynamically unstable agile design that uses a quadruplex fly by wire system to keep it in the air. Said FBW system also prevents any prospective pilot from over-stressing the airframe.
The design of the aircraft is that of a compound delta wing swept at 35° inboard and 53° outboard, the canards are of the close coupled variety and are all-moving. Swept at 45° with leading and trailing edge lift devices.
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 at least one substantial order other than the development airframes.

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Drawings are subject to change

General Characteristics:

Crew: 1 or 2
Length: 16.7m
Wingspan: 11.1m
Wing Area: 43.5m²
Height: 5.06m (landing gear retracted)
Empty Weight: 9950kg
Loaded Weight: 15955kg
Max. Takeoff Weight: 25550kg
Powerplant: 2x Babcock-Weisz Enfield BW-125 afterburning turbofans with 3D vectoring nozzles
Dry Thrust: 189.7kN (Combined)
Wet Thrust: 247.38kN (Combined)
Fuel Capacity:
- 5000kg (internal)
- 7451kg (internal + conformal tanks)
- 10719kg (as above with the addition of two 2000L droptanks)

Performance Characteristics:

Max. Speed (Hi): 2300km/h (@13716m)
Max. Speed (Lo):1629km/h (@ Sea Level)
Max. Sustainable speed: 2575km/h (@13716m)
Max. Supercruise speed: 1960km/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 ammuntion)
Wing Loading: 307.5kg/m²
T/W Ratio: 1.212 (@ normal loaded weight at full military power)
Rate of Climb: 315m/s

Avionics and Sensors:

Radar: AAe Daywalker (downscaled Nightstalker variant - 1350T/R nodes with 120° azimuth control via a swashplate arrangement)
EO/IRST: AAe FLEO (Similar arrangement to Thales' FSO/OSF - 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 (for both crew members in the two-seater)
- Martin Baker Mk.16a 0-0 ejection seat(s)

Armament:

Stations: 11(+2) (1x centreline (heavy), 2x centreline (flank), 2x inboard, 2x midboard, 2x outboard, 2x wing-tip rails - +2 sensor stations on the chin)
Payload: Up-to 10500kg
Fixed Weapons: 1 or 2 (Customer specified out of: BK-27, GIAT 30, Oerlikon KCA, Oerlikon KBA or Oerlikon KAA - with between 150 and 275rds per gun)
Air-to-Air Missiles
- AIM-9 Sidewinder
- AIM-120 AMRAAM
- AIM-132 ASRAAM
- AIM-2000 IRIS-T
- Rafael Python 3,4 and 5
- Rafael Derby
- Meteor BVRAAM
Air-to-Ground Missiles
- AGM-65 Maverick
- AGM-84 Harpoon
- AGM-84K SLAM-ER
- AGM-88 HARM
- AGM-154 JSOW
- MBDA Storm Shadow
- MBDA SPEAR
- MBDA Dual-Mode Brimstone
- Taurus KEPD350
- Taurus MP
- MBDA ALARM
- Kongsberg NSM
- Kongsberg JSM
- BAE Sea Eagle
- Saab RBS-15
Guided Bombs
- GBU-10,12 and 16 Paveway II
- GBU-22, 23 and 24 Paveway III
- GBU-31, 32 and 38 JDAM
- GBU-54, 55 and 56 L-JDAM
- GBU-39 and 53 SDB
- CBU-103, 104 and 105 WCMDs
Unguided Bombs
- Mk81, 82 and 83
- MBDA BANG 125, 250 and 1000
- CBU-87, 89 and 97
Rockets
- CRV7 in LAU-5002 / 5003 pods (Plus guided derivatives)
- Hydra 70 in LAU-61 / 68 pods (Plus guided derivatives)
- Zuni in LAU-10 pods (Plus guided derivatives)
- Thomson Brandt 100mm rockets in LR 100-4 or LR 100-6 pods
- SNEB 68mm rockets in Matra 155 or RL F2 pods
Other Stores
- IAI Elta EL/L-8222 EW Pod
- IAI Elta EL/M-20600 Radar Targeting Pod
- Rafael Lite Shield EW Pod
- Goodrich DB-110 RECCE Pod
- Various droptanks including 1250L, 1750,L 2000L and 2275L capacity models
Targeting Pods
- LANTIRN (Nav and Targeting Pods)
- Pantera / Sniper XR
- Litening III, G4 and SE
- Damocles

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Yes the design is styled somewhat after the J-10 though I've tried to include various ideas from other designs
I've put a lot of effort into all this as you might expect so please don't uneducatedly kitbash the hell out it like a certain someone did with one of my other designs
The above mentioned, I'd love to see people's takes on them in their own AUs so long as they know what they're doing...

~Mark

Shipbucket

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