Canyon Runner is a ground-based seek-and-destroy vehicle designed to hunt down enemy ground vehicles, anti-air defenses, and ships close to the shore. It's low profile, good climbing torque, and high-up turret sight allow it utilize hills for peekaboo duck-and-dodge tactics to loose missiles, then avoid return fire.
It comes armed with 16 Inferno missiles, more than enough to wipe out a convoy, sink a few ships, or overwhelm a laser-defended missile launcher emplacement. Also comes armed with 4 miniguns for backup or anti-air defense. The vehicle uses a quad-arm suspension system with tilting feet to help ensure tire contact over uneven terrain. And the vehicle steers using a split-body linkage.
The controls are pitch for two-way throttle, and roll for steering. VTOL and Trim move the turret around.
AG1, 2, 3, and 4 launch missiles in groups of 4s, useful for unloading on a ship, or filling the sky with more missiles than they can manage to shoot down.
Top speed is over 100 mph, but best handling and safest driving is around 40 mph.
Specifications
General Characteristics
- Created On Windows
- Wingspan 26.2ft (8.0m)
- Length 39.3ft (12.0m)
- Height 17.8ft (5.4m)
- Empty Weight 16,167lbs (7,333kg)
- Loaded Weight 16,969lbs (7,697kg)
Performance
- Wing Loading 69.1lbs/ft2 (337.2kg/m2)
- Wing Area 245.7ft2 (22.8m2)
- Drag Points 14224
Parts
- Number of Parts 359
- Control Surfaces 0
- Performance Cost 1,917
@SHCow Canyon Runner is designed primarily for anti-vehicular duties, but I guess if you swapped the missiles, it could be pretty effective at anti-air.
@Treadmill103 Thanks. Good to hear. I had some difficulty getting it to handle well enough to be satisfied. Its most major problem is a tendency to stub its toes on sharp inclines and low ledges, which usually trashes one of the wheel pods. Thankfully, this can be prevented by simply being careful. Another problem is a tendency for one damaged part to set off a chain reaction that destroys the whole thing, but that's less of a specific problem, as pretty much all planes do that already anyway.