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KH-07 "Butterfly"

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[Description & Develop history]

KH-07 (name: "butterfly") is a Efficient High-Maneuverable forward-swept wing Multirole carrier-based Fighter, which combined all experience from it's predecessor,
including: KH-01 to KH-06;

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Each predecessor have it's own Pros & Cons:
1. KH-01 "Sirius" has proved it's great mobility, but too small and unstable.
2. KH-02 "Scorpius" has solved the problems from KH-01, but the performance were not as good as expected.
3. KH-03 & 04 were cancelled and scrapped due to extreme bad performance.
4. KH-05 "Blood Angel" have good mobility, thanks to it's Thrusts vectoring, the VTOL also a success. But it is Hard To Control and unstable, and it's slow as it only can go over 1mach instead of going at least 1.9mach. Also it's extremely heavy, making it have to waste a lots of fuel.
5. KH-06 "Ö" have Great speed, but the turning was not very good and it's quite heavy, making it need a lots of fuel. Also,its hard to stop as it have Low-Drags and lack of Air Brakes.
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When KH-07 start under developing , all the Pros & Cons above has been listed into the Plan to remind the crews what should they avoid when designing the KH-07. They avoided making the plane Too big, Too small, Too unstable, exactly.

And in the end, this final work has finished. It passed all the Tests, proved the KH-07 have Great mobility, firepower and Nice Survivability. And most importantly: More Efficient.
The predecessor were less efficient due to the Engine was Fuel Consuming.
But KH-07 was different, it have a Better engine, it doesn't need too much fuel to Provide Thrusts, and so do the Afterburner. Making KH-07 can have Better combat range without fuel tanks, although it haven't tested how far can it goes.

KH-07 also equipped with serval New-weapons that redesigned from Previous Work, including: AGMs, AAMs, TLS and Guns.

The Missiles

The missiles have redesigned for Matching the Max Speed of the Aircrafts to avoid slower than it's Launch Platform.

(The picture of KH-07 hitting a Water Target in a Testing, also you can see the TLS on the front)

The TLS

The TLS firepower has been reduced, because the previous TLS required a Big Battery to enough to be very destructive, the Current one was reduced it's Battery Size, so it will be much weak than previous one. and the TLS were now only focus on weak armored target such as Trucks & Aircrafts.

(KH-07 firing it's TLS, it's more Visible at Night Time)

The Railgun(Cancelled)

At first it planned to have a Railgun for Destroying Land targets and Air Targets for make the Firepower much stronger, however due to the weight balance;the role and the drags, the Railgun Plan was cancelled.
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[Performance]

Cruise speed (without afterburner): 2.87Mach (~1900knots (Ground Speed)) @30,000ft
Max Speed (with afterburner): 3.32Mach (~2200knots (Ground Speed)) @30,000ft
360° max turning speed: <=3 second @>=1200knot(GS)
360° min turning speed: <=5 second @>900knot(GS)
Cruise Altitude: 30,000ft to 35,000ft
Max Altitude: 60,000ft
Take-off speed: 190knot
Landing speed: 160knot (@Full trim)
Best loaded weight: ~39,000ib to 41,000ib (if heavier than this limit, then the plane will have worse performance. Also mind the COL & COM balance.)

(A picture of KH-07 Landing on Grass during testing)


[Weapons available]

  1. Rule-38 Heet Seeking AAM (Fire&Forget)

    Max Lock Range: 109,268m (59nmi)
    Min Lock Range: 300m
    Max Speed: 2.9 Mach

  2. Rule-40(B) AAM (Semi-Active Radar)

    Max Lock Range: 50,000m (27nmi)
    Min Lock Range: 4,000m (2.15nmi)
    Maz Speed: 5.87 Mach

  3. KA-01 AGM (Fire&Forget)

    Max Lock Range: 26,000m (14nmi)
    Min Lock Range: 300m
    Max Speed: 3.82 Mach

  4. 40mm Gun

    muzzle velocity: 1,500m/s
    Round per second: 10

  5. TLS

    Burst time: ~8 second
    Cool down time: 5s
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[Standard setup]

4× Rule-38 Heat Seeking AAM
2× Rule-40(B) AAM
5× KA-01 AGM
1× 40mm Gun
1× TLS
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[Ground Attack Setup]

9×(+1) KA-01 AGM (Fire&forget)
TLS & 40mm Gun
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[Air to Air setup]

8× Rule-38 Heat Seeking AAM
5×(+1) Rule-40(B) AAM
40mm Gun&TLS

(Setups can be different depends on pilot's choice)
(Not recommend mirror the plane again because the Roll will goes for same rotation instead of different rotation, causing the plane will not be able to turn.)


[Controls & AG group]

normal plane controls
Throttle<=99: Afterburner Off
Throttle=100: Afterburner On


AG1: Arresting Hook
AG2: Activate all Missiles (40mm gun always on)
AG3: Activate TLS
AG7: Drag chute
AG8: Nav, Becon, Strobe lights


The End

Spotlights

General Characteristics

  • Created On Android
  • Wingspan 72.3ft (22.0m)
  • Length 80.4ft (24.5m)
  • Height 21.9ft (6.7m)
  • Empty Weight 25,452lbs (11,544kg)
  • Loaded Weight 40,385lbs (18,318kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 4.229
  • Wing Loading 44.6lbs/ft2 (218.0kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 904.5ft2 (84.0m2)
  • Drag Points 1170

Parts

  • Number of Parts 242
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 1,395