The Volatus EK-1 is the first aircraft to roll out of Volatus Aerospace. During it's 7 year development, it was reverse-engineered from Arubi's EF-2000B Typhoon fleet and improved in the areas of stealth, airflow and efficiency, at first, toppling it's firepower when it came into the battlefields.It sports the characteristic colours of the Arubi Air Force coupled with the squadron's yellow accent colours.

Development:

The EK-1 was commissioned in 2012 after a Typhoon from Arubi was shot down in Afghanistan by a shoulder-fired SAM, which shouldn't had been able to track the plane in the first place. Shortly after, in 2013, most of the Typhoons had airflow problems due to the accumulated dust and sand from the tours in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Afghanistan.

Volatus was sourced and charged with the project. They took a regular Typhoon and completely reworked it's wings, the main source of detectability, and gave them some edge and a coating of radar absorbent material. The inlets were sloped reversely in relation to before, they were also thicker and had a small intake ramp to split the flow evenly, laminating it and eliminating the turbulent factor of the air, both at sub, trans and supersonic speeds, reducing noise, IR signature (because the engine stresses itself less for the same thrust), a more efficient afterburner and better airflow in general.

The engines were swapped from the Eurojet FB200s to the newer FB216s, which had more thrust, a better afterburner, stalling prevention, fan torque vectoring, dynamic airflow chambers and less fuel consumption.

The vertical stabilizer, although present and with a rudder, suffered from a detectability issue, so it was shrunk and the rudder was redesigned for stealth purposes. The rudder, though, lost most of it's authority and is only present to stabilize the aircraft.

Slats were added to aid Negative G Maneuvering and to recover from stalls more easily. They were too made for stealth, with a limited movement band and cut corners.

As the plane gained some weight and the pilots complained about the uncompliant suspension on the landing gears, they were completely reworked and applied onto the aircraft. It gained a rotary shock to help with landing and to conform to bumps in unprepared forward airbases.

Proprietary munitions and external fuel tanks were made, purposefully to increase stealthiness and airflown, seen as they were made specifically for the plane itself. They were made as to not be jettissoned and to take on most jet fuel types and/or missiles (current loadout features 8 Medium Range Semi-Active Lock-On Radar missiles (Fox 1s) and JP-8 jet fuel).

Features:

This aircraft features a realistic afterburner, custom control surfaces, automatic stability control, autopilot friendliness (if engaged at low speeds and then sped up, in that order) and mobile friendliness to a degree.

Controls:

A1 - Afterburner/Reheat
A2 - Weapons Systems
A3 - All Missiles Fire
A4 thru A7 - Nothing
A8 - Lights

Pitch - Pitch
Roll - Roll
Yaw - Disabled
VTOL - Disabled
Trim - Disabled

FireGuns - 25mm Cannons
LaunchWeapons - 8 LRAAMs
LaunchCountermeasures - Countermeasures (beware of the lag)