Hey!

DFoulke here. A little known fact about me is the fact that I'm a fan of the Ace Combat series. In Ace Combat, there's this one special weapon known as the Electromagnetic Launcher, or EML for short. It's basically a railgun mounted onto an aircraft. It's a lot of fun in-game and since the XPF-01 was designed to be the superplane in a little, original Ace Combat story I'm working on, I decided to put it on the Ripper.

THE XPF-01
What you're looking at is the Experimental Prototype Fighter no. 1, or XPF-01 for short. It is a stealth fighter designed for interception, air-superiority and is capable of providing ground support. It was designed my my fictional characters Damien "Black" Foulke, Maxwell "Max" Sirius and Ami Kaisen, all of who are a part of the PMC known as "Milites Sine Terminis" or MST for short. The XPF-01 was given the nickname of "Ripper" because during its initial testing, the engines would be too powerful for the wings to handle and they would be ripped off the aircraft.

This specific build is the R variant. R meaning "Railgun", of course. The Aircraft-mounted Railgun mk III, or AMR-03, is the railgun model mounted onto the underside of the plane. For this, I have given it the nickname of "Rail Ripper". The railgun's design allows the plane to maintain stealth even with the railgun attached. The Rail Ripper is also armed with two (2) experimental Mk I Air-to-Air missiles hidden in a (not-so-much) weapon bay located near the front air intakes (I just hid it inside and XML modded it, as I am not too sure on how to make a proper weapon bay with the design).

Good luck trying to shoot something down with the railgun!

I will be working on more variants in the future, keep an eye out for them!

Controls:
Trim for Flaps
AG1 to activate the railgun
VTOL up to reveal the hidden missiles

Side note:
this is an updated version. the missiles have been upgraded and the drag on the EML has been reduced.

Thank you so much to my b u d d i Thelegitpilot13 for teaching me how to build a simple EML. Cheers m8!

Another thank you to Wingman522 for helping me improve with any flaws with the Ripper that I am not able to find. It was his idea to upgrade the missiles and reduce the drag.