I regret everything.

AG 1: Drag Chute
VTOL: Flaps Up/Down (Inverted)

"WHY!?" - Engineer from Socrux's Defense Department upon seeing the little abomination designed by the Experimental Research Department folk

Taking the "light fighter" concept a bit too far, the Experimental Research Department of Socrux decided to take one of the most powerful engines available and design the smallest possible airframe around it - with no regards for practicality whatsoever. Starting as a napkin project, some madman in the department decided to go ahead with it and actually build a prototype, incurring in a terrible waste of resources and development effort.

Having recieved prototype numbering S.P.189 and no official designation, being informally known only as the "Microfighter", the result was a tiny plane with a ridiculously cramped cockpit and very little in the way of systems, or fuel. Armed with two 30mm cannons and four short-range air-to-air missiles, it ironically turned out to be actually one of Socrux's best performing aircraft in terms of speed and maneuverability - failing almost everywhere else. Its abysmal fuel capacity resulted in hilariously short range, suitable only (and even then barely so) for point interception. The bycicle landing gear, chosen to save space and weight, has the unfortunate side effect of requiring extremely precise landings, and the aircraft's extreme sensibility to commands does not help in that regard.

Test pilots have described the experience, comparing it to the F-104's, as "In the Starfighter, you feel like you've been saddled to a rocket. In the P.189, you've been duct taped to the rocket, given a tap in the back, and off you go."