The 'Puffin' is a midweight class naval attacker/reconnaissance aircraft that was designed in the 1990's and put into service in 2004.

In 1998 the Krakabaloan Air Force had commissioned aircraft bureaus to design an mairtime patrol aircraft that was capable of finding submarines, reconnaissance missions , and destroying carrier battle groups. Immediately the QAS
Naval Aircraft Division had jumped on the task. The engineers had somehow, um... "acquired" the blueprints and design specifications of an American Douglas A-3 Skywarrior and reverse-engineered it while adding new avionics an a revamped airframe. Unfortunately, the engineers at QNAD had completely omitted the folding wings and tail hook which was a staple of the A-3 and thus removed any hope of the 'Puffin' being carrier based. On completion of the first prototype in 2001 test pilot, Jeb Gouda, had flown the aircraft to a height of 75,000 feet, went into a spin at supersonic speeds and miraculously crash landed in the tundra of Snowstone. Since the aircraft is so large stealth was not a real priority for the engineers, so they chose the most visible paint scheme possible. Somehow QAS lost the contract set by the KAF, but they just said, "H**k the KAF", and still continued to operate the aircraft.

Now here are some stats for the 'Puffin'.

Powerplant: Two RM-70 Non-Afterburning Turbojets that produce 16000 lbs (71.1 Kn) of thrust each.

Top Speed: 950 mph @ 55,000 feet (1530 kph @ 16750 m)

Weapons: 6 ASM-114 Anti Ship Missiles,
2 CM-100 "Cleaver" Cruise Missiles

Equipment: LRASR-3 Anti Ship Radar,
IRREC-34 Reconnaissance and Thermal Imaging Camera, MAD boom, Refueling Boom, 4 Passive Sonobouys.

Action Groups:

1: Toggles MAD Boom actuator
2: Toggles Servo for the IRREC-34
3-6: Drops Sonobouys
7: Toggles Refueling Boom actuator