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Jannie Ragone
This craft goes out to @Servo. Through your incredible craft you have helped to show me what is possible in this game. Every time you posted a craft that absolutely floored me (which was often) it motivated me to experiment and try new things, with the goal of one day becoming your equal.
Again, this is a beautiful craft - especially from a design perspective. You've distilled so many different design innovations into a single craft, that I'm impressed. The gold foiling on the cockpit is brilliant, the shaping of the nose from landing gear is dead on, and the use of radial intakes to make the flat texture looks really good. That's not to mention the all-flying tailplanes, combined large engines, and the smooth shaping using ramp intakes, mk0 tanks, and wing panels. This plane is an absolute masterclass in clever building techniques - everyone looking to get better at building should tear this thing apart to see how its built.
The design elements you mentioned are all things I just took from awesome craft made by other people, including you. I know it's kind of stupid to say but, it makes it feel like I can't really take credit for them, since very few are even my ideas. The fact that they were executed well on this craft just feels like a fluke to me.
Retired Lt. Gen. Charles G. Cleveland stands before a remake "Chris Craft" F-86A Sabre now a part of the air park at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. The "Chris Craft" named after General Cleveland's son, was the aircraft he used to shoot down five MiG-15s during the Korean War. General Cleveland was deployed to South Korea in March 1952, where he flew F-86s as a flight commander with the 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing at Kimpo Air Base. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III)
Retired Lt. Gen. Charles G. Cleveland shares stories of his time as a fighter pilot during the Korean War. General Cleveland has been recognized by the Air Force as a jet fighter ace 55 years after the end of the Korean War. Newly discovered documentation by the Russian air force as well as eyewitness accounts by General Cleveland's wingmen proved evidence to support converting two probable kills into confirmed kills from dog fights over "Mig Alley" during the Korean War. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III)
Retired Lt. Gen. Charles G. Cleveland searches his office computer for the official release provided by the Air Force confirming his jet fighter ace status during the Korean War. General Cleveland has been recognized by the Air Force as a jet fighter ace 55 years after the end of the Korean War. Newly discovered documentation by the Russian air force as well as eyewitness accounts by General Cleveland's wingmen proved evidence to support converting two probable kills into confirmed kills from dog fights over "Mig Alley" during the Korean War. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III)
A painting of the "Chris Craft" F-86A flown by retired Lt. Gen. Charles G. Cleveland hangs in his office. The "Chris Craft" named after General Cleveland's son, was the aircraft he used to shoot down five MiG-15s during the Korean War. General Cleveland was deployed to South Korea in March 1952, where he flew F-86s as a flight commander with the 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing at Kimpo Air Base. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III)
Retired Lt. Gen. Charles G. Cleveland stands in his backyard behind a director's chair presented to him as a gift for his time as the commander of the Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. General Cleveland has been recognized by the Air Force as a jet fighter ace 55 years after the end of the Korean War. Newly discovered documentation by the Russian air force as well as eyewitness accounts by General Cleveland's wingmen proved evidence to support converting two probable kills into confirmed kills from dog fights over "Mig Alley" during the Korean War. General Cleveland was deployed to South Korea in March 1952, where he flew F-86s as a flight commander with the 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing at Kimpo Air Base. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III)
Retired Lt. Gen. Cleveland (third from right) was deployed to South Korea in March 1952, where he flew F-86s as a flight commander with the 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing at Kimpo Air Base. Fifty-five years after the Korean War, the Air Force has recognized General Cleveland as a fighter ace for his accomplishments of five MiG-15s kills and one probable. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III)
Should take more than a small gang to kill a carrier. 27 fighters should be able to take out 10 frigates fairly easy.
Or 18 fighters and 9 support. However you handle your carrier pvp. I like high dmg, so max fighters for me.
Why even? A Domi has 15 drones. A carrier has 27 fighters mashed into 3 squads in space and then at least one refill. You can kill the 5 in space domi drones much faster than the fighters, you can outrun the drones of the Domi, too, while fighters MWD after you.
Fighter aircraft (early on also pursuit aircraft)[a] are military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat. In military conflict, the role of fighter aircraft is to establish air superiority of the battlespace. Domination of the airspace above a battlefield permits bombers and attack aircraft to engage in tactical and strategic bombing of enemy targets.
The key performance features of a fighter include not only its firepower but also its high speed and maneuverability relative to the target aircraft. The success or failure of a combatant's efforts to gain air superiority hinges on several factors including the skill of its pilots, the tactical soundness of its doctrine for deploying its fighters, and the numbers and performance of those fighters.
Many modern fighter aircraft also have secondary capabilities such as ground attack and some types, such as fighter-bombers, are designed from the outset for dual roles. Other fighter designs are highly specialized while still filling the main air superiority role, and these include the interceptor, heavy fighter, and night fighter.
Fighters continued to be developed throughout World War I, to deny enemy aircraft and dirigibles the ability to gather information by reconnaissance over the battlefield. Early fighters were very small and lightly armed by later standards, and most were biplanes built with a wooden frame covered with fabric, and a maximum airspeed of about 100 mph (160 km/h). As control of the airspace over armies became increasingly important, all of the major powers developed fighters to support their military operations. Between the wars, wood was largely replaced in part or whole by metal tubing, and finally aluminum stressed skin structures (monocoque) began to predominate.
By World War II, most fighters were all-metal monoplanes armed with batteries of machine guns or cannons and some were capable of speeds approaching 400 mph (640 km/h). Most fighters up to this point had one engine, but a number of twin-engine fighters were built; however they were found to be outmatched against single-engine fighters and were relegated to other tasks, such as night fighters equipped with primitive radar sets.
By the end of the war, turbojet engines were replacing piston engines as the means of propulsion, further increasing aircraft speed. Since the weight of the turbojet engine was far less than a piston engine, having two engines was no longer a handicap and one or two were used, depending on requirements. This in turn required the development of ejection seats so the pilot could escape, and G-suits to counter the much greater forces being applied to the pilot during maneuvers.
In the 1950s, radar was fitted to day fighters, since due to ever increasing air-to-air weapon ranges, pilots could no longer see far enough ahead to prepare for the opposition. Subsequently, radar capabilities grew enormously and are now the primary method of target acquisition.[citation needed] Wings were made thinner and swept back to reduce transonic drag, which required new manufacturing methods to obtain sufficient strength. Skins were no longer sheet metal riveted to a structure, but milled from large slabs of alloy. The sound barrier was broken, and after a few false starts due to required changes in controls, speeds quickly reached Mach 2, past which aircraft cannot maneuver sufficiently to avoid attack.
Air-to-air missiles largely replaced guns and rockets in the early 1960s since both were believed unusable at the speeds being attained, however the Vietnam War showed that guns still had a role to play, and most fighters built since then are fitted with cannon (typically between 20 and 30 mm (0.79 and 1.18 in) in caliber) in addition to missiles. Most modern combat aircraft can carry at least a pair of air-to-air missiles.
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