Background
Designed to be an fast ambush fighter traveling under the radar to spot or attack bomber squadrons, fighters, shipping, and naval vessels. The Exocoetidae is a hybrid of a Seaplane, Fighter Jet, and Submarine. Propelled underwater by water jet engines with a rear intake and two jet engines in the air. The Exocoetidae can carry a variety of modified cruise missiles, air to air missiles, and even torpedoes for anti sub operations. Nose mounted radar assists with spotting. Ballast tanks mounted below the wings. Active and passive sonar for tracking and engaging enemy submarines. Compact carbon scrubbers increase underwater time along with self replenishing oxygen tanks upon surfacing. The Exocoetidae can go for 2 days only utilizing its water jet engines to travel at 60 knots underwater till it spots a target, surfacing and activating jet engines. The vessel/aircraft is not necessarily an extremely stealthy unit.
Controls
Movement
-AG8 Activates Gyroscope for landing and take off, Deactivate while flying.
-AG6 Activates Water Jet engines, (It works in the air as a boost which doesn't really make sense)
-Normal plane controls in the air
Weapons
-FireGuns fires machine gun
-FireWeapons launches rockets (Missiles don't work if they touch water)
Specifications
Spotlights
- Sgtk 6.5 years ago
General Characteristics
- Successors 2 airplane(s)
- Created On Mac
- Wingspan 62.3ft (19.0m)
- Length 87.7ft (26.7m)
- Height 25.3ft (7.7m)
- Empty Weight N/A
- Loaded Weight 30,232lbs (13,713kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 3.902
- Wing Loading 126.4lbs/ft2 (617.2kg/m2)
- Wing Area 239.2ft2 (22.2m2)
- Drag Points 26388
Parts
- Number of Parts 77
- Control Surfaces 5
- Performance Cost 494
@ColonelStriker woah..... das deep
@ThomasRoderick Yeah, they also allow it to float like a float plane.
Are those underwing chambers ballast tanks?
@ColonelStriker ehh
It’s more like Submarines are the airships of the sea.
If you think about it, Planes are just submarines of the air
@Pilotmario Its mostly a submarine in the sense that it can go underwater. The system it uses isn't extremely complex. Ballast tanks below the wing take water in and pump it out via pushing and pulling a gas in and out to take in and remove water (I'll clarify as this may or may not be the real mechanism). Water jet engines are mounted in the back. Its control underwater utilizes the vertical stabilizer and water jets to direct the aircraft. Unable to submerge to great depths due to pressure. So its just the basic submarine concept. The aircraft is medium weight and has a pretty low carrying capacity as most of the weight goes to reinforcement.
It works quite decently but turning isn't great along with its speed which usually runs at low power to save fuel but on max can push the aircraft to high speeds. Thus why its air time is usually for short-medium duration missions. Expected to land and submerge to return home if fuel doesn't allow for a quick return.
Kool!
@RocCrafter101 Even if it did work, the performance would be deficient as an aircraft and a submarine.
The requirements for a submarine are pretty much the exact opposite of an airplane, so any design of this sort would be heavily compromised at best. Still, quite an impressive thing if you made it even work.
@Pilotmario
polishes middle finger
Mine. Mwahahaha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyingsubmarine#/media/File:Flyingsubmarine_Russia.svg
Here, we just sort of made a modern version and continued development.
As for this thing...
polishes realism bat
@RocCrafter101 Inclement weather usually comes with high winds, magnified by ground effect.
High winds and waves are a massive no-go for such ground-effect vehicles due to their lighter construction.
@PyrusEnderhunter no, don't remind us of the damn E-57!
@RocCrafter101 did you know the difference between the horten hoIX and the gotha Go229? i bet you dont know it.
@Irobert55 Yup, pilot did though criticize them saying they would be screwed over by waves. Which I know wouldn't do much to them since its a large craft and the engines are made to be fine with a little water getting in. And its aerodynamic shape could push through pretty well. But I was worried that a small ground effect fighter would have more of a problem than the Ekranoplans due to them having much less mass.
@RocCrafter101 well the most funny thing about the concept is that you didnt even need a submarine to stay under the radar. a ground effect vehicle can do the same tricks.
@Irobert55 This aircraft does slightly suck at being both, though being a decent fighter jet, but a bad sub. But is still a threat in combat. With new jet technology, the Aerosub can approach under the radar at high speeds then attack seemingly out of nowhere deploying cruise missiles and a lighter version of the Zircon Hypersonic missile.
there was once a submarine plane hybrid planned. the project was scrapped because the result sucked a being both.
@Pilotmario old E-57 intensifies