Wao he made cringe fictional plane instead of replica again Eeeewwwwwwwwww-

I liked the old Silent Hawk build, but lately the design and overall performance started to bug me. So to try and make a version more inline with my current skill level I decided to completely remake it from scratch; now it's based on the F-22A production fighter with some elements of the YF-22 and personal touches by myself for fictional lore purposes. I am far happier with how this looks and flies compared to the old build, and it's definitely resparked my desire to build more of these "lore" planes that I've referenced a few times now (see my ahem "sWAnsOnG" posts for context.)

I want to thank ReinMcDeer for being kind enough to let me use his G-Limiter FT here. A modified version of the previous F(St)-15 with his code is what spurred me on to make this FS(St)-15A build, so kudos to him. I DID end up needing to use his two elevator FT's as well, which was more than I had wanted to borrow, but hopefully that's okay. Thanks dude!

Variants

18th Tactical Fighter Squadron (You are here)
5th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Princess Kurebuchi airfield
132nd TESVAL Trials Squadron

Controls

Startup requires setting the controls on one of the side consoles. While they're technically meant to be pressed in order you can just set them all and it'd be fine.

Activation group controls as follows:
Group1 - Emergency tailhook
Group2 - Aircraft lights
Group3 - Refueling probe
Group4 - Jettison drop tanks
Group5 - N/A
Group6 - N/A
Group7 - Formation lights
Group8 - Master Arm
Trim - Pitch trim
VTOL - N/A (It's just a holdover from early in the build process)

Armament

1x A/GU-25 Stringer 25mm rotary cannon, 500 rounds
2x OAM-3A Buzzsaw IR missiles
6x OAM-5B SLAMRAAM
2x 450US Gal external tanks
2x 300US Gal external tanks

Gallery

An unpainted FS(St)-15A doing flight checks before getting sent off for proper livery and markings.

Two Silent Hawks on patrol in the waters to the northwest of Orématsu, AF897 and AF881 of the 18th TFS. Capt. Valerie Draco "Vapor" (foreground) flies 897 while 1st Lt. Don LeBourdyn "Doc" saddles 881 as her wingman.

A production model FS(St)-15A parked next to one of the 15 pre-production YFS(St)-15's. It's clear how much was changed between the two versions despite having similar silhouettes.

Dogfight training between a Silent Hawk of the 18th TFS and a Hunter FH-90A Raxxon of the 23rd Strategic Combat Wing, 44th TFS.