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X-42/Kh-42

8,609 GabrielSatori  1.3 years ago

Weapon's description:
The Raduga X-42 (commonly known as Kh-42) is an experimental ALCM (Air-launched cruise missile) developed directly from the new X-32/Kh-32. Say that it's a cruise missile, it's actually more like a kamikaze drone, it has a plane-like shape, jet propulsion, and if it's detected by radar, the radar that detects it will think that it is a drone but in reality, doom is flying straight at it. But the most special part? This thing can be controlled manually like a regular drone. About its specs, this missile has a range of 300km when it is used as a missile, its speed is unrecorded but it is believed to be above Mach 2 and it uses the same warhead as the Trinity. But just like the Trinity, its usage is prohibited, it is illegal to use even in war, but the Russians use it in war anyway. During Broken Border/Gensokyo Invasion incident, a single X-42 is carried by Sanae along side with a Trinity during her boss fight, the missile's explosion capsizes and sinks half of the Japanese fleet in the attack. Later on, two X-42 are carried by a TU-22M3 during the Grand Attack on Japan at the end of the incident.

The missile will just act like a regular cruise missile in SimplePlanes, it isn't controllable like the description. It's also very heavy (about 2 tons) so I had to put it on a bigger plane.

Free to use, feel free to put it on your builds.

Subassembly instruction:
Hide the missile’s shell , it will reveal the detacher inside, open the detacher’s connections, disconnect the detacher from the pylon-like fuselage above it.

*When connecting it to your plane, make sure no part other than the detacher is connected, otherwise it will stuck to your plane. I recommend connecting it to a fuselage part instead of the actual pylon, especially if you're using a low-end device like mine.

*The jet engine and gyroscope inside of the missile has these funky inputs: ammo("X-42") = 0; ammo("X-42") < 2. These inputs make the missile works and fly like a cruise missile when released, based on the number of ammo you have on the plane. You can put as many as you want on your plane, when testing, mark the dropping order and change number for missile to work properly, every other ones must use the second input, but the last one drop must have the first input mentioned above.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

It's... a drone? NO, IT'S A MISSILE, RUN!!!

General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 90.2ft (27.5m)
  • Length 83.3ft (25.4m)
  • Height 27.6ft (8.4m)
  • Empty Weight 42,198lbs (19,140kg)
  • Loaded Weight 50,994lbs (23,130kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 0.33
  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.313
  • Wing Loading 32.6lbs/ft2 (159.0kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 1,565.5ft2 (145.4m2)
  • Drag Points 8452

Parts

  • Number of Parts 182
  • Control Surfaces 7
  • Performance Cost 1,091