Rainier Aerospace is proud to present the long-anticipated F-36 Broadsword! The F-36 is the latest 5th generation strike fighter design that incorporates advanced technologies such as a majority carbon-fiber air-frame with some composite components, a powerful "adaptive/variable-cycle" afterburning turbofan co-developed by GE and Rainier; derived from the GE F136; capable of super-cruise and low-IR emissions, an innovative internal weapons bay that is capable of slinging 8x missiles or bombs, a relatively stealthy design, a clean, ergonomic cockpit which incorporates technology from Rainier's S.L.I.M. cockpit design, and a bleeding edge avionics, electronics, and sensors suite. Which it's powerful electronics and avionics suite, the F-36 incorporates a highly advanced AI system dubbed "Talisman System" which is capable of flying the F-36 all on it's own, meaning the F-36 is semi-autonomous, or "optionally manned". More on the F-36's tech will be discussed in the official post.
The Broadsword spawned out of a collab with me and @JED to improve or do a "remaster" of his F-36A Thorny Devil for Tessemi's now-cancelled 6th Generation Fighter Challenge, but the collab eventually fell through, and the challenge obviously got cancelled. So I decided to continue the project on my own (with JED's approval) and renamed it the F-36 Broadsword. The Broadsword will now be submitted for @BaconRoll's Challenge / Vanadia's Air Force fighter contract.
Vanadia will be the launch customer for the F-36 Broadsword with their specific "BNRV-36" variant, under the condition the F-36 wins at least 3rd place in the competition, or at the very least, Vanadia accepts the fighter into their Air Force.
Scheduled to be publicly released on Thursday or Friday. In the mean time, here are some teasers! :)
CREDITS:
@JED : Created the original design and tagged me up on the original collab, as well as approved of me using his F-36 Thorny Devil as a base for a vastly improved fighter. ORIGINAL F-36A THORNY DEVIL.
@Greasytortle : Gave some minor but useful suggestions and improvements on the design.
@Texasfam04: Game useful feedback during beta/testing.
@BaconRoll
Hey I just spent mostly all day creating the images for the description of the official post (using an unlisted post as a template) and I prefer releasing my builds in the morning when more users are on, and it's fairly late on my end, so I'm going to be releasing the BNRV-36 first thing in the morning (on my end at least, so if it's already the 30th on your end it may show up as late). But it's 100% done so no more delays or waiting.
Ok so this is gonna be released a little late then planned because I'm making the description using images and pictures instead of just typing out in the descriptions, but I'm almost done. I just have to finish the last couple of slides for the back-story and then it will be released.
@marcox43
Thanks!
Looks really amazing, also it seems like the competition for the BNRV contract seems tougher every week hahaha
@JED
Oh it's no worry. I'm currently on winter break. I'm most likely going to release it on Friday.
Sorry I haven’t gotten to you sooner (I have been busy with school and all). But no problem with linking you the first plane, same with you, you took the F-36 to levels that I probably wouldn’t have gone :-) :-) @JohnnyBoythePilot
@JohnnyBoythePilot it's ok, still looks great regardless!
Oh nice @JohnnyBoythePilot
@BaconRoll
Thanks, although the info you see on the displays is purely a render/edit, not part of the actual aircraft. Aside from using instrument mods (which are removed on your version), I can't add any custom made gauges because the cockpit is too cramped to add anything else without the parts latching on to each other and breaking key features like the opening canopy, flight stick, or HOTAS throttle (and rudder pedals).
@aplayer
No mods at all. Well, the original F-36 uses Gestour's instrument mods but I removed them on the BNRV-36 variant since BaconRoll's challenge doesn't allow mods. The instruments your seeing in the cockpit image is a "render" or "concept" of what would be on the flight displays.
OOOOOOOOOH
I love everything about this so far
D a t c o c k p i t
This thing probably have many mods right? @JohnnyBoythePilot
Haven’t seen anything from BRNV since the challenge, looking good!
@Texasfam04
@Greasytortle
Thanks for your useful input and feedback during testing!
@JED
Well the standard F-36's aren't quite done yet but I'll be releasing the design a bit early with the BNRV-36 special variant for the Vanadia Air Force (@BaconRoll 's Challenge). Well thanks for tagging me on the original collab, as this wouldn't have happened without you.