JS-17 is a prototype air superiority jet made by the country of Zvania, a very wealthy but underdeveloped country. They modeled it after the F-104 and in 1971, the first blueprints for the jet was made. It appeared to be very promising due to its resemblance of America’s most modern aircraft at the time, but the project was put on hold due to political concerns about the threat posed to the environment. After about 25 years, the project was restarted and the first prototype was built in 1997. By this point the JS-17 would be extremely outdated, but the newly formed air force was sure that it was still promising, some generals even said that it could bring down an F-15. But the JS-17 would lack all fighting capability except for just two Hispano 30mm auto cannons, with a depressing ammo load of just 170 rounds per gun. When the JS-17 went against an F-15 for a training exercise with the United States, it would become extremely apparent that the lack of suspended armament was a serious issue, not to mention that the supposedly nimble jet had a turn time that could barely fight against an F-4. Although it did have a relatively high power to weight ratio, it still wouldn’t matter due to aforementioned limitations. To combat some issues, pilots were given the option to turn off the limiter for the angle of attack, which positively affected the jets performance, but it would still be dangerous to use for turn fighting as the roll rate was negatively affected by the extreme angles of attack. Only 1 year after the JS-17 entered service, it would retire with only 5 being built, one of which crashing in another training exercise with an F/A-18.

honestly quite useless

ag1: cockpit
ag:4 aoa limiter