The F/A-19 Grey Owl is a single seat, twin engine, stealth heavy fighter/ ground attack aircraft, developed for the United States Airforce (USAF). The aircraft was developed in secret, alongside the YF-22 and YF-23 fighters. Its intended purpose was to serve as a more dedicated ground attack fighter, essentially becoming a more advanced version(and replacement) of the A-10 and F-111.

The F/A-19 featured nearly five times the internal weapon capacity(by weight) of an F-22 and could carry more on attachable pylons on the wings(for true ground attack missions). It was optimized to minimize it's radar cross-section against near-field radar, since it would be flying at medium to low altitudes most of the time. Despite this, it also had all-aspect stealth, granted, not nearly as good as the F-22.

The project was ultimately cancelled in the December of 1990, due to unknown reasons. It was, however, later discovered that 50 F/A-19(in total) were ordered by the United States Navy and the United States Airforce. The reason for this is also unknown.

Design

The Grey Owl was an relatively slow plane, with a top speed(at 5000m) of just Mach 1.0. This was due to the drag caused by the enlarged fuselage. The inlets we're moved up(instead of the traditional position), to have a larger internal volume for equipment and weapons, as well as to provide a greater volume of air to the engines(as the engines were modified to be highly efficient w/o sacrificing power). The larger volume also gave it better range, as it could carry quite a lot of fuel (in internal tanks).

The electronics, such as radar, infrared and others, we're more effective than that of an F-22. It even has a laser designator(which is flush with one of the cheeks of the cockpit). It had a 360 Radar and Infrared sensor range, with sensors all over it's fuselage. This allowed it to better detect ground targets, as well as enemy aircraft which might intercept it.

Specifications

General characteristics

• Crew : 1
• Empty weight : 62,128 lb (28,181 kg)
• Gross weight : 91,293 lb (41,410 kg)
• Max takeoff weight: Unknown
• Fuel capacity : 23,415 lb (10,621 kg) internally
• Powerplant : 2 × Pratt & Whitney modified F119-PW-100(F119-PW-00B)
  turbofans, 175 kN thrust each dry, 235 kN with afterburner

Performance

• Maximum speed: Mach 1.03, 689 knots (1,276 km/h) at altitude
  Mach .8, 539 knots (1,000 km/h) at sea level
• Range : Classified. Estimated at around 3780 nmi (7,000 km)
• Combat range : 1700 nmi (3,150 km)
• Ferry range : 4050 nmi (7,500 km)
• Service ceiling : Classified. Estimated at around 82020 ft (25,000 m)
• g limits : +10.0/-4.0

Armament

• Guns: (None for this variant) 1× 30 mm modified M230 mountable in forward weapons bay(but not usually present), 500 rounds

• Mixed Air-to-ground mission loadout:
  4× GBU-12 Guided Bomb(on rotating bomb rack)
  2× M117 Dumb Bombs
  6x JCM-169
  4× AIM-95 Agile(in side weapons bays) for self defense

Controls

Pitch, Roll, and Yaw are normal
VTOL=Flaps
AG-1: Toggle Thrust Vectoring
AG-2: Opens ALL Weapons Bays (NOT NEEDED WHEN FIRING WEAPONS. PLS LEAVE CLOSED WHEN FIRING WEAPONS)
AG-3: Nothing(it used to deactivate the Fly-By-Wire, but I switched from PID to just normal ft, so I removed it)
AG-4: Cabin Lights(I guess; they don't really work that nice)
AG-5: Wing Leveling Mode(Roll Only)

Cockpit

For the Digital(not really) Bomb Sight, select a target, and then drop the bomb if the circle is over the crosshairs

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SOO there you go folks, my first, kinda successful aircraft deign. I designed this thing from pretty much scratch. It's supposed to be realistic and all, but I'm not sure on that. Anyway, I really enjoyed making this and I learned a lot. Hopefully I can use that so my future designs will be less janky.

Also, here are some pics

Also, also, I'm gonna make a variant of this that has a weapon that I made. If your on discord(SPBC), you might have heard me mention it. But that's for another time.