A tactical cargo and personnel transport capable of vertical take-off and landing as well as super-sonic speeds.

Credits:
The LINDWYRM tactical transport is an original design, though all of the modifications are the products of you wonderful folk here on SimplePlanes, for which you have my gratitude. I would specifically like to thank Seme4ka for the wonderful micro-missiles that are the basis of my Houndstooth and Claw missiles batteries, dfsjoe for the weightless mega-fuel tank that I have reinterpreted as the Umbra Reactor, FGW2014 for the Hail Storm shard laser that became the Meteor Swarm shard laser system, and Spefyjerbf for many amazing modifications and weapons.

Background Story:
In the fourth cycle of the XIX Dynasty one of the Archon Chancellery's clients approached the High Command with a request for a high speed tactical cargo transport. The High Command decided such an aircraft would be a useful addition to their stable of planes. The Chancellery ultimately utilized a long wide-body design combined with their now traditional SERAPHIM multi-wing architecture. An altered version of the bureau's very successful CONSTELLATION integrated power system using the UMBRA dark energy reactor was also utilized, giving the new plane virtually unlimited range. The resulting Transport, the LINDWYRM, was a large aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landings as well as speeds in excess of Mach 1.3. The LINDWYRM was not meant for frontline combat, but it was recognized that it might need to defend itself on its forays into the theater of battle, so it was equipped with some advanced weapons systems, including eight HOUNDSTOOTH short range anti-aircraft missiles and four CLAW air-to-ground radar seeking missiles; one STAR BURST, stern chaser laser weapons system; and one METEOR SWARM laser shard anti-aircraft gun on a chin mounted gun turret.

Activation Groups:
1 - Engages the modified CONSTELLATION integrated engine system, which includes an enhanced gyro-stabilization unit (active whenever AG-1 is on), tand enables thrust vectoring on all twenty thrust nozzles (VTOL bar up and down).
2 - Activates the stern cargo hatch, swinging the aft section up and out (TRIM up). This also enables the rotary winch (VTOL down)
3 - Activates the cargo magnet.
4 - Activates the HOUNDSTOOTH short range AA missile system (Guardian based).
5 - Activates the CLAW short range AG missile system (Inferno based).
6 - Activates the STAR BURST stern-chaser pulse cannon.
7 - Activates the METEOR SWARM anti-aircraft laser chin mounted laser turret.
8 - disconnects the main UMBRA reactor, deactivating all active sensors (shown by extinguishing the various engine and running lights) and disarms the plane's twin machine gun turrets.