CYOE IV: Poll Now Open

[Vancon]

the real question

where are the racing stripes and flames

Saving those for carrier version.

Oh Jesus yes.

You need to make a bomber version too.

[The Corparation]

Saving those for carrier version.

Oh Jesus yes.

You need to make a bomber version too.

Now you're just being ridiculous.

[EsToVnIa]

Redid my squad.

And yes, the SL is armed with a M2 with a M1 paratrooper stock and rechambered for 7x35mm

[Bratislavskaya]

Full Regiment of Infantry Delivered in 30 Hours or less or your money back.

AN6K Roc LRNSA

Overview:
In the ever expanding battlefields faced on NS-Earth, the need for the ability to transport large numbers of troops and equipment over long distances has always been seen as a must. Sadly this has always been a slow task, aircraft can only carry a limited number of troops, and few can carry more than one or two pieces of heavy equipment and all require multiple refuelings to reach the farthest battlefields, this means that the use of ships is a must Unfortunately Transport vessels can take months to reach a combat zone, which places limits as to a nation's response to the rapidly changing modern day battlefield. In order to alleviate this problem, and provide a means to rapidly transport large numbers of troops and equipment world wide, Polaris Aerospace started The LRNSA Project.(Long Range Nuclear Strategic Airlifter). Based on earlier design studies such as the Lockheed CL-1201, the ultimate result of the project was the Model AN6K "Roc".

The AN6K is a massive super heavy transport, and is able to deliver approximately 2000 metric tons of cargo anywhere in the world. The AN6K is powered by 4 massive combined Nuclear-Conventional turbofan engines. The craft uses conventional jet fuel when taking off, and once at altitude switches the engines from conventional operation to nuclear power. The use of nuclear power while cruising means that the cruising range of the aircraft is effectively limited only by on board consumable supplies.


Design:
The AN6K's primary identifying feature, other than its massive size, is its unique tail-less blended wing-body design. The design allows for both increased lift and decreased drag resulting in a superior lift to drag to ratio compared to a conventional layout. The design also allows for increased interior volume and increased fuel efficiency when the engines are running on conventional jet fuel.


Crew:
The flight deck of the AN6K is manned by a crew of 12. The flight crew consists of the Pilot/Commander, Co-pilot, 4 Flight Engineers, Navigator, Radio Operator and 4 Defensive Systems Operators.In addition to the flight crew, the nuclear propulsion of the AN6K requires an additional 4 Reactor Operators seated in a control room just forwards of the reactor compartment. Due to the vast distances and thus long mission times, accommodations are also provided for 2 backup crews, giving the AN6K a total flight crew of 48. In addition to the flight crews, additional crew members such as Loadmasters are also carried.


Payload:
The primary mission of the AN6K is as a strategic airlifter. To fulfill this task, the aircraft is built to carry a whopping two thousands metric tons of cargo. The main cargo bay of the AN6K stretches 74 meters long, 4 and a half meters high and is over 20 meters across. The aft cargo bay is around half as big, only stretching for roughly 35 meters. The Aft and forward Cargo bays are separated by the craft's main reactor, however two smaller cargo bays measuring 16m x 4 meters wide x 4 meters tall connect the two main bays. Combined these holds provide over 10,000 cubic meters worth of cargo space on the main cargo deck alone. In addition the main cargo deck there are loads of other places to put stuff....
2 metric tons of equipment is useless if you don't have the manpower to use it, as such the AN6K has provisions to carry over x passengers.

Defensive Systems:
lulzy-radars comparable to that of an AWACS. Shitloads of AAMs, Chaff, Flares, possibly a few autocannons because I ran out of fucks when I made my Orion.

Flight Deck:
I heard you liek glass cockpits

Reactor:
Powered by the Atom, becuase SCIENCE!

Propulsion:
Technically itt's a fucking Hybrid so pro-environment hippies can suck it.

Length:160 Meters
Height: 17.6 Meters (45.7 Meters to Tail)
Wingspan: 350 Meters
Power: 1 x Type AR-214 2,000 Megawatt Reactor
Propulsion: 4 x NT-214 Turbofans ( 556000 kN of thrust each)
Empty Mass: ~3000 Metric Tons
Payload: 2000 Metric tons
Flight Crew: 48

A few notes:
Yes I realize my numbers differ from the CL-1201. In particular My payload is twice what Lockheed planned for and my mass is much lower. My main excuse for this is that I'm dumping the 182 STOL engines and everything associated with them. Given the combined thrust of those engines is 15 million lbs, this gives just over 82,000 lbs of thrust per engine, roughly comparable to the A380's GP7000. That engine weighs 6.7 Tons, so 182 of them would weigh just under 1,220 tons not including mountings and fuel. I'm making the baseless and likely wrong (But this is a not serious NS-design so who cares) assumption I can use that extra mass for cargo. Of course this will dramatically increase the length of the runways required to operate it, but any operators will just have to suck it up. (What's that, the nation you're fling to doesn't have a runway the length of California? Tough luck maybe you should have realized how impractical it was before you bought the thing.

Where do I get it, how do I get it, and how much do I pay for it?

[The IASM]

Full Regiment of Infantry Delivered in 30 Hours or less or your money back.

AN6K Roc LRNSA

Overview:
In the ever expanding battlefields faced on NS-Earth, the need for the ability to transport large numbers of troops and equipment over long distances has always been seen as a must. Sadly this has always been a slow task, aircraft can only carry a limited number of troops, and few can carry more than one or two pieces of heavy equipment and all require multiple refuelings to reach the farthest battlefields, this means that the use of ships is a must Unfortunately Transport vessels can take months to reach a combat zone, which places limits as to a nation's response to the rapidly changing modern day battlefield. In order to alleviate this problem, and provide a means to rapidly transport large numbers of troops and equipment world wide, Polaris Aerospace started The LRNSA Project.(Long Range Nuclear Strategic Airlifter). Based on earlier design studies such as the Lockheed CL-1201, the ultimate result of the project was the Model AN6K "Roc".

The AN6K is a massive super heavy transport, and is able to deliver approximately 2000 metric tons of cargo anywhere in the world. The AN6K is powered by 4 massive combined Nuclear-Conventional turbofan engines. The craft uses conventional jet fuel when taking off, and once at altitude switches the engines from conventional operation to nuclear power. The use of nuclear power while cruising means that the cruising range of the aircraft is effectively limited only by on board consumable supplies.


Design:
The AN6K's primary identifying feature, other than its massive size, is its unique tail-less blended wing-body design. The design allows for both increased lift and decreased drag resulting in a superior lift to drag to ratio compared to a conventional layout. The design also allows for increased interior volume and increased fuel efficiency when the engines are running on conventional jet fuel.


Crew:
The flight deck of the AN6K is manned by a crew of 12. The flight crew consists of the Pilot/Commander, Co-pilot, 4 Flight Engineers, Navigator, Radio Operator and 4 Defensive Systems Operators.In addition to the flight crew, the nuclear propulsion of the AN6K requires an additional 4 Reactor Operators seated in a control room just forwards of the reactor compartment. Due to the vast distances and thus long mission times, accommodations are also provided for 2 backup crews, giving the AN6K a total flight crew of 48. In addition to the flight crews, additional crew members such as Loadmasters are also carried.


Payload:
The primary mission of the AN6K is as a strategic airlifter. To fulfill this task, the aircraft is built to carry a whopping two thousands metric tons of cargo. The main cargo bay of the AN6K stretches 74 meters long, 4 and a half meters high and is over 20 meters across. The aft cargo bay is around half as big, only stretching for roughly 35 meters. The Aft and forward Cargo bays are separated by the craft's main reactor, however two smaller cargo bays measuring 16m x 4 meters wide x 4 meters tall connect the two main bays. Combined these holds provide over 10,000 cubic meters worth of cargo space on the main cargo deck alone. In addition the main cargo deck there are loads of other places to put stuff....
2 metric tons of equipment is useless if you don't have the manpower to use it, as such the AN6K has provisions to carry over x passengers.

Defensive Systems:
lulzy-radars comparable to that of an AWACS. Shitloads of AAMs, Chaff, Flares, possibly a few autocannons because I ran out of fucks when I made my Orion.

Flight Deck:
I heard you liek glass cockpits

Reactor:
Powered by the Atom, becuase SCIENCE!

Propulsion:
Technically itt's a fucking Hybrid so pro-environment hippies can suck it.

Length:160 Meters
Height: 17.6 Meters (45.7 Meters to Tail)
Wingspan: 350 Meters
Power: 1 x Type AR-214 2,000 Megawatt Reactor
Propulsion: 4 x NT-214 Turbofans ( 556000 kN of thrust each)
Empty Mass: ~3000 Metric Tons
Payload: 2000 Metric tons
Flight Crew: 48

A few notes:
Yes I realize my numbers differ from the CL-1201. In particular My payload is twice what Lockheed planned for and my mass is much lower. My main excuse for this is that I'm dumping the 182 STOL engines and everything associated with them. Given the combined thrust of those engines is 15 million lbs, this gives just over 82,000 lbs of thrust per engine, roughly comparable to the A380's GP7000. That engine weighs 6.7 Tons, so 182 of them would weigh just under 1,220 tons not including mountings and fuel. I'm making the baseless and likely wrong (But this is a not serious NS-design so who cares) assumption I can use that extra mass for cargo. Of course this will dramatically increase the length of the runways required to operate it, but any operators will just have to suck it up. (What's that, the nation you're fling to doesn't have a runway the length of California? Tough luck maybe you should have realized how impractical it was before you bought the thing.

Now to develop parachute technology to use this thing to my hearts content.

[Ulfr-Reich]

Finishing up some shading on a bayonet, how does it look to you blokes?

[Kouralia]

Full Regiment of Infantry Delivered in 30 Hours or less or your money back.

AN6K Roc LRNSA

Overview:
In the ever expanding battlefields faced on NS-Earth, the need for the ability to transport large numbers of troops and equipment over long distances has always been seen as a must. Sadly this has always been a slow task, aircraft can only carry a limited number of troops, and few can carry more than one or two pieces of heavy equipment and all require multiple refuelings to reach the farthest battlefields, this means that the use of ships is a must Unfortunately Transport vessels can take months to reach a combat zone, which places limits as to a nation's response to the rapidly changing modern day battlefield. In order to alleviate this problem, and provide a means to rapidly transport large numbers of troops and equipment world wide, Polaris Aerospace started The LRNSA Project.(Long Range Nuclear Strategic Airlifter). Based on earlier design studies such as the Lockheed CL-1201, the ultimate result of the project was the Model AN6K "Roc".

The AN6K is a massive super heavy transport, and is able to deliver approximately 2000 metric tons of cargo anywhere in the world. The AN6K is powered by 4 massive combined Nuclear-Conventional turbofan engines. The craft uses conventional jet fuel when taking off, and once at altitude switches the engines from conventional operation to nuclear power. The use of nuclear power while cruising means that the cruising range of the aircraft is effectively limited only by on board consumable supplies.


Design:
The AN6K's primary identifying feature, other than its massive size, is its unique tail-less blended wing-body design. The design allows for both increased lift and decreased drag resulting in a superior lift to drag to ratio compared to a conventional layout. The design also allows for increased interior volume and increased fuel efficiency when the engines are running on conventional jet fuel.


Crew:
The flight deck of the AN6K is manned by a crew of 12. The flight crew consists of the Pilot/Commander, Co-pilot, 4 Flight Engineers, Navigator, Radio Operator and 4 Defensive Systems Operators.In addition to the flight crew, the nuclear propulsion of the AN6K requires an additional 4 Reactor Operators seated in a control room just forwards of the reactor compartment. Due to the vast distances and thus long mission times, accommodations are also provided for 2 backup crews, giving the AN6K a total flight crew of 48. In addition to the flight crews, additional crew members such as Loadmasters are also carried.


Payload:
The primary mission of the AN6K is as a strategic airlifter. To fulfill this task, the aircraft is built to carry a whopping two thousands metric tons of cargo. The main cargo bay of the AN6K stretches 74 meters long, 4 and a half meters high and is over 20 meters across. The aft cargo bay is around half as big, only stretching for roughly 35 meters. The Aft and forward Cargo bays are separated by the craft's main reactor, however two smaller cargo bays measuring 16m x 4 meters wide x 4 meters tall connect the two main bays. Combined these holds provide over 10,000 cubic meters worth of cargo space on the main cargo deck alone. In addition the main cargo deck there are loads of other places to put stuff....
2 metric tons of equipment is useless if you don't have the manpower to use it, as such the AN6K has provisions to carry over x passengers.

Defensive Systems:
lulzy-radars comparable to that of an AWACS. Shitloads of AAMs, Chaff, Flares, possibly a few autocannons because I ran out of fucks when I made my Orion.

Flight Deck:
I heard you liek glass cockpits

Reactor:
Powered by the Atom, becuase SCIENCE!

Propulsion:
Technically itt's a fucking Hybrid so pro-environment hippies can suck it.

Length:160 Meters
Height: 17.6 Meters (45.7 Meters to Tail)
Wingspan: 350 Meters
Power: 1 x Type AR-214 2,000 Megawatt Reactor
Propulsion: 4 x NT-214 Turbofans ( 556000 kN of thrust each)
Empty Mass: ~3000 Metric Tons
Payload: 2000 Metric tons
Flight Crew: 48

A few notes:
Yes I realize my numbers differ from the CL-1201. In particular My payload is twice what Lockheed planned for and my mass is much lower. My main excuse for this is that I'm dumping the 182 STOL engines and everything associated with them. Given the combined thrust of those engines is 15 million lbs, this gives just over 82,000 lbs of thrust per engine, roughly comparable to the A380's GP7000. That engine weighs 6.7 Tons, so 182 of them would weigh just under 1,220 tons not including mountings and fuel. I'm making the baseless and likely wrong (But this is a not serious NS-design so who cares) assumption I can use that extra mass for cargo. Of course this will dramatically increase the length of the runways required to operate it, but any operators will just have to suck it up. (What's that, the nation you're fling to doesn't have a runway the length of California? Tough luck maybe you should have realized how impractical it was before you bought the thing.

looks kewl

but can it outlol the aca skyliner?

[Ardavia]

Full Regiment of Infantry Delivered in 30 Hours or less or your money back.

AN6K Roc LRNSA

Overview:
In the ever expanding battlefields faced on NS-Earth, the need for the ability to transport large numbers of troops and equipment over long distances has always been seen as a must. Sadly this has always been a slow task, aircraft can only carry a limited number of troops, and few can carry more than one or two pieces of heavy equipment and all require multiple refuelings to reach the farthest battlefields, this means that the use of ships is a must Unfortunately Transport vessels can take months to reach a combat zone, which places limits as to a nation's response to the rapidly changing modern day battlefield. In order to alleviate this problem, and provide a means to rapidly transport large numbers of troops and equipment world wide, Polaris Aerospace started The LRNSA Project.(Long Range Nuclear Strategic Airlifter). Based on earlier design studies such as the Lockheed CL-1201, the ultimate result of the project was the Model AN6K "Roc".

The AN6K is a massive super heavy transport, and is able to deliver approximately 2000 metric tons of cargo anywhere in the world. The AN6K is powered by 4 massive combined Nuclear-Conventional turbofan engines. The craft uses conventional jet fuel when taking off, and once at altitude switches the engines from conventional operation to nuclear power. The use of nuclear power while cruising means that the cruising range of the aircraft is effectively limited only by on board consumable supplies.


Design:
The AN6K's primary identifying feature, other than its massive size, is its unique tail-less blended wing-body design. The design allows for both increased lift and decreased drag resulting in a superior lift to drag to ratio compared to a conventional layout. The design also allows for increased interior volume and increased fuel efficiency when the engines are running on conventional jet fuel.


Crew:
The flight deck of the AN6K is manned by a crew of 12. The flight crew consists of the Pilot/Commander, Co-pilot, 4 Flight Engineers, Navigator, Radio Operator and 4 Defensive Systems Operators.In addition to the flight crew, the nuclear propulsion of the AN6K requires an additional 4 Reactor Operators seated in a control room just forwards of the reactor compartment. Due to the vast distances and thus long mission times, accommodations are also provided for 2 backup crews, giving the AN6K a total flight crew of 48. In addition to the flight crews, additional crew members such as Loadmasters are also carried.


Payload:
The primary mission of the AN6K is as a strategic airlifter. To fulfill this task, the aircraft is built to carry a whopping two thousands metric tons of cargo. The main cargo bay of the AN6K stretches 74 meters long, 4 and a half meters high and is over 20 meters across. The aft cargo bay is around half as big, only stretching for roughly 35 meters. The Aft and forward Cargo bays are separated by the craft's main reactor, however two smaller cargo bays measuring 16m x 4 meters wide x 4 meters tall connect the two main bays. Combined these holds provide over 10,000 cubic meters worth of cargo space on the main cargo deck alone. In addition the main cargo deck there are loads of other places to put stuff....
2 metric tons of equipment is useless if you don't have the manpower to use it, as such the AN6K has provisions to carry over x passengers.

Defensive Systems:
lulzy-radars comparable to that of an AWACS. Shitloads of AAMs, Chaff, Flares, possibly a few autocannons because I ran out of fucks when I made my Orion.

Flight Deck:
I heard you liek glass cockpits

Reactor:
Powered by the Atom, becuase SCIENCE!

Propulsion:
Technically itt's a fucking Hybrid so pro-environment hippies can suck it.

Length:160 Meters
Height: 17.6 Meters (45.7 Meters to Tail)
Wingspan: 350 Meters
Power: 1 x Type AR-214 2,000 Megawatt Reactor
Propulsion: 4 x NT-214 Turbofans ( 556000 kN of thrust each)
Empty Mass: ~3000 Metric Tons
Payload: 2000 Metric tons
Flight Crew: 48

A few notes:
Yes I realize my numbers differ from the CL-1201. In particular My payload is twice what Lockheed planned for and my mass is much lower. My main excuse for this is that I'm dumping the 182 STOL engines and everything associated with them. Given the combined thrust of those engines is 15 million lbs, this gives just over 82,000 lbs of thrust per engine, roughly comparable to the A380's GP7000. That engine weighs 6.7 Tons, so 182 of them would weigh just under 1,220 tons not including mountings and fuel. I'm making the baseless and likely wrong (But this is a not serious NS-design so who cares) assumption I can use that extra mass for cargo. Of course this will dramatically increase the length of the runways required to operate it, but any operators will just have to suck it up. (What's that, the nation you're fling to doesn't have a runway the length of California? Tough luck maybe you should have realized how impractical it was before you bought the thing.

Where do I get it, how do I get it, and how much do I pay for it?

And how quickly can I get it?

[Korva]

(Image)

Redid my squad.

And yes, the SL is armed with a M2 with a M1 paratrooper stock and rechambered for 7x35mm

Is that a :not:M16A3?

Did we just become best friends?

[EsToVnIa]

(Image)

Redid my squad.

And yes, the SL is armed with a M2 with a M1 paratrooper stock and rechambered for 7x35mm

Is that a :not:M16A3?

Did we just become best friends?

notM16A1

[The Corparation]

looks kewl

but can it outlol the aca skyliner?

Skyliner has a bigger wingspan, but LRNSA will be longer, fatter and have a much higher MTOW. LRNSA will literally be able to transport the ground combat elements of a force nearly equivalent to the combat vehicles of 2 MEUs.

A normal MEU can have
4 M1A1 main battle tank
16 Light Armored Vehicle
15 Assault Amphibious Vehicle
6 155mm howitzer: M777
Total Mass = 956 Tons x 2 = 1912 Tons
Leaving 88 Tons for the troops and their equipment.

Also Skyliner doesn't have a carrier version.

EDIT: Did some more work

Tweaked Wings, Started front view
Cutaway View
Key:
Orange: Flight Deck & Reactor Control Room
Yellow: Reactor and Propulsion Systems
Green: Crew Areas
Brown: Cargo Bays
Gray: Storage for Supplies (Ignore Gray bit just aft cockpit, I'm going to put a fold down ramp there, but forgot to change color)
Red AAM Bay w/ Rotary Launcher
Purple: Landing Gear Bays

Edit 2:
even more work
Tweaked cutaway

Overview:
In the ever expanding battlefields faced on NS-Earth, the need for the ability to transport large numbers of troops and equipment over long distances has always been seen as a must. Sadly this has always been a slow task, aircraft can only carry a limited number of troops, and few can carry more than one or two pieces of heavy equipment and all require multiple refuelings to reach the farthest battlefields, this means that the use of ships is a must Unfortunately Transport vessels can take months to reach a combat zone, which places limits as to a nation's response to the rapidly changing modern day battlefield. In order to alleviate this problem, and provide a means to rapidly transport large numbers of troops and equipment world wide, Polaris Aerospace started The LRNSA Project.(Long Range Nuclear Strategic Airlifter). Based on earlier design studies such as the Lockheed CL-1201, the ultimate result of the project was the Model AN6K "Roc".

The AN6K is a massive super heavy transport, and is able to deliver approximately 2000 metric tons of cargo anywhere in the world. The AN6K is powered by 4 massive combined Nuclear-Conventional turbofan engines. The craft uses conventional jet fuel when taking off, and once at altitude switches the engines from conventional operation to nuclear power. The use of nuclear power while cruising means that the cruising range of the aircraft is effectively limited only by on board consumable supplies.

Design:
The AN6K's primary identifying feature, other than its massive size, is its unique tail-less blended wing-body design. The design allows for both increased lift and decreased drag resulting in a superior lift to drag to ratio compared to a conventional layout. The design also allows for increased interior volume and increased fuel efficiency when the engines are running on conventional jet fuel.

Crew:
The flight deck of the AN6K is manned by a crew of 12. The flight crew consists of the Pilot/Commander, Co-pilot, 4 Flight Engineers, Navigator, Radio Operator and 4 Defensive Systems Operators.In addition to the flight crew, the nuclear propulsion of the AN6K requires an additional 4 Reactor Operators seated in a control room just forwards of the reactor compartment. Due to the vast distances and thus long mission times, accommodations are also provided for 2 backup crews, giving the AN6K a total flight crew of 48. In addition to the flight crews, additional crew members such as Loadmasters are also carried.


Payload:
The primary mission of the AN6K is as a strategic airlifter. To fulfill this task, the aircraft is built to carry a whopping two thousands metric tons of cargo. The main cargo bay of the AN6K stretches 74 meters long, 4 and a half meters high. It starts out 13.5 Meters wide before expanding outwards to 26 meters meters across towards the center of the aircraft. The aft cargo bay is somewhat smaller only stretching for roughly 35 meters and 15 meters wide. The Aft and forward Cargo bays are separated by the craft's main reactor, however two smaller cargo bays measuring 18 meters long by 7 meters wide x by meters tall connect the two main bays. In addition to the main cargo deck, there is a secondary cargo deck above the main cargo deck in the forward area of the aircraft. Connected to the main cargo deck via a ramp that lowers to a point just aft of the main cargo bay's loading doors, the upper cargo deck stretches over 60 meters long. from near the nose of the aircraft aft to the main reactor The upper cargo deck width varies from 16 meters in the forward section of the aircraft, to over 36.5 Meters near the center of the aircraft. Combined the decks provide over a metric fuck-ton cubic meters of cargo space.


Landing Gear:


Defensive Systems:
lulzy-radars comparable to that of an AWACS. Shitloads of AAMs, Chaff, Flares, possibly a few autocannons because I ran out of fucks when I made my Orion.

48 Payload bays each with a 9 Missile Rotary Launcher allow the AN6K to carry 432 Air to Air Missiles for self defense.

Flight Deck:
I heard you liek glass cockpits

Reactor:
The AN^K is powered by a 1,800 MegaWatt Reactor. Because Lockheed was fucking insane.

Propulsion:
The AN6K is propelled by 4 NT-214 Highbypass Turbofan Engines. The largest jet engines ever built, each one generates over 550,000 KN of thrust during flight. The NT-214 Engines are unique in that they are able to operate of both regular jet fuel and the nuclear reactor. During takeoff and climb to altitude, the NT-124s burn jet fuel, switching to nuclear power once it reaches its final cruising altitude.

Technically it's a fucking Hybrid so pro-environment hippies can suck it.
Crew: 48 Flight Crew
Length:160 Meters
Height: 17.6 Meters (45.7 Meters to Tail)
Wingspan: 350 Meters
Power: 1 x Type AR-214 2,000 Megawatt Reactor
Propulsion: 4 x NT-214 Turbofans ( 556,000 kN of thrust each)
Empty Mass: ~3000 Metric Tons
Payload: 2000 Metric Tons
MTOW: 6,000 Metric Tons
Range:
-Jet Fuel : 1,000 Km
-Nuclear : Limited only by food supplies

[Korva]

Made these guys for Erusuia. Supposed to be guards for an arctic submarine base.

[EsToVnIa]

Made these guys for Erusuia. Supposed to be guards for an arctic submarine base.
(Image)

Need better camo.

Also not using HK69, shameful

[Oaledonia]

Full Regiment of Infantry Delivered in 30 Hours or less or your money back.

AN6K Roc LRNSA

Overview:
In the ever expanding battlefields faced on NS-Earth, the need for the ability to transport large numbers of troops and equipment over long distances has always been seen as a must. Sadly this has always been a slow task, aircraft can only carry a limited number of troops, and few can carry more than one or two pieces of heavy equipment and all require multiple refuelings to reach the farthest battlefields, this means that the use of ships is a must Unfortunately Transport vessels can take months to reach a combat zone, which places limits as to a nation's response to the rapidly changing modern day battlefield. In order to alleviate this problem, and provide a means to rapidly transport large numbers of troops and equipment world wide, Polaris Aerospace started The LRNSA Project.(Long Range Nuclear Strategic Airlifter). Based on earlier design studies such as the Lockheed CL-1201, the ultimate result of the project was the Model AN6K "Roc".

The AN6K is a massive super heavy transport, and is able to deliver approximately 2000 metric tons of cargo anywhere in the world. The AN6K is powered by 4 massive combined Nuclear-Conventional turbofan engines. The craft uses conventional jet fuel when taking off, and once at altitude switches the engines from conventional operation to nuclear power. The use of nuclear power while cruising means that the cruising range of the aircraft is effectively limited only by on board consumable supplies.


Design:
The AN6K's primary identifying feature, other than its massive size, is its unique tail-less blended wing-body design. The design allows for both increased lift and decreased drag resulting in a superior lift to drag to ratio compared to a conventional layout. The design also allows for increased interior volume and increased fuel efficiency when the engines are running on conventional jet fuel.


Crew:
The flight deck of the AN6K is manned by a crew of 12. The flight crew consists of the Pilot/Commander, Co-pilot, 4 Flight Engineers, Navigator, Radio Operator and 4 Defensive Systems Operators.In addition to the flight crew, the nuclear propulsion of the AN6K requires an additional 4 Reactor Operators seated in a control room just forwards of the reactor compartment. Due to the vast distances and thus long mission times, accommodations are also provided for 2 backup crews, giving the AN6K a total flight crew of 48. In addition to the flight crews, additional crew members such as Loadmasters are also carried.


Payload:
The primary mission of the AN6K is as a strategic airlifter. To fulfill this task, the aircraft is built to carry a whopping two thousands metric tons of cargo. The main cargo bay of the AN6K stretches 74 meters long, 4 and a half meters high and is over 20 meters across. The aft cargo bay is around half as big, only stretching for roughly 35 meters. The Aft and forward Cargo bays are separated by the craft's main reactor, however two smaller cargo bays measuring 16m x 4 meters wide x 4 meters tall connect the two main bays. Combined these holds provide over 10,000 cubic meters worth of cargo space on the main cargo deck alone. In addition the main cargo deck there are loads of other places to put stuff....
2 metric tons of equipment is useless if you don't have the manpower to use it, as such the AN6K has provisions to carry over x passengers.

Defensive Systems:
lulzy-radars comparable to that of an AWACS. Shitloads of AAMs, Chaff, Flares, possibly a few autocannons because I ran out of fucks when I made my Orion.

Flight Deck:
I heard you liek glass cockpits

Reactor:
Powered by the Atom, becuase SCIENCE!

Propulsion:
Technically itt's a fucking Hybrid so pro-environment hippies can suck it.

Length:160 Meters
Height: 17.6 Meters (45.7 Meters to Tail)
Wingspan: 350 Meters
Power: 1 x Type AR-214 2,000 Megawatt Reactor
Propulsion: 4 x NT-214 Turbofans ( 556000 kN of thrust each)
Empty Mass: ~3000 Metric Tons
Payload: 2000 Metric tons
Flight Crew: 48

A few notes:
Yes I realize my numbers differ from the CL-1201. In particular My payload is twice what Lockheed planned for and my mass is much lower. My main excuse for this is that I'm dumping the 182 STOL engines and everything associated with them. Given the combined thrust of those engines is 15 million lbs, this gives just over 82,000 lbs of thrust per engine, roughly comparable to the A380's GP7000. That engine weighs 6.7 Tons, so 182 of them would weigh just under 1,220 tons not including mountings and fuel. I'm making the baseless and likely wrong (But this is a not serious NS-design so who cares) assumption I can use that extra mass for cargo. Of course this will dramatically increase the length of the runways required to operate it, but any operators will just have to suck it up. (What's that, the nation you're fling to doesn't have a runway the length of California? Tough luck maybe you should have realized how impractical it was before you bought the thing.

Now to develop parachute technology to use this thing to my hearts content.

Sorry NATO only.

[Korva]

Made these guys for Erusuia. Supposed to be guards for an arctic submarine base.
(Image)

Need better camo.

Also not using HK69, shameful

My first attempt at drawing splinter style camo in that scale. Is hard

[New Tsavon]

Sorry NATO only.

i.e. no commies allowed.

[Pharthan]

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Reactor:
The AN^K is powered by a 1,800 MegaWatt Reactor. Because Lockheed was fucking insane.

Propulsion:
The AN6K is propelled by 4 NT-214 Highbypass Turbofan Engines. The largest jet engines ever built, each one generates over 550,000 KN of thrust during flight. The NT-214 Engines are unique in that they are able to operate of both regular jet fuel and the nuclear reactor. During takeoff and climb to altitude, the NT-124s burn jet fuel, switching to nuclear power once it reaches its final cruising altitude.

Range:
-Jet Fuel : 1,000 Km
-Nuclear : Limited only by food supplies

Reactor's okay on size... but spherical reactors are stupid. Cylindrical much more better.
Also, good thing to remember is that the reactor itself isn't nearly the biggest part of the system. A good portion of that plane would need to be reactor-plant spaces. For instance, I have a Reactor-plant plane of my own the size of a C-130, but only 1/3rd of it's cargo-bay holds a reactor and it requires to be parked right next to a sibling-plane that houses nothing but reactor-plant equipment, and they can only operate together. You can't just "extract electricity" from the reactor - granted, you could be using beta-decay like a thorium reactor, but that's very low power generation and suitable for little but keeping the lights on.
Look at HTRE-3 for example - you might be able to do an Air-Cooled reactor, but much of that grayed out space underneath the air-loops would also be associated to additional systems; turns out you can't control a reactor if you don't have the equipment to do it. Heck, the equipment to power the controlling elements, auxiliary cooling equipment, reactor-protection, nuclear instrumentation...
Or, for instance, the entire aft section of an attack submarine is dedicated to the reactor plant. True, you're getting rid of your turbine-generators, diesel, main engines, and shaft, but that doesn't buy you as much space as you might think; much of that space s also dedicated to water tanks, various cooling systems, and other aforementioned systems which will be present for any reactor.

Also, I give that sucker 3 months airtime.

If you're using an air-cooled reactor, you've also got the disadvantage that you have to keep the engines running for hours before flight and hours after flight, if not -days- after flight (especially late in life or after long flights) unless you feel like hooking up additional decay-heat removal equipment. Turnaround of this aircraft is going to be on the order of weeks.

[EsToVnIa]

Critiquing a nonserious design

idk

[The Corparation]

Edit 2:
even more work
Tweaked cutaway

Reactor:
The AN^K is powered by a 1,800 MegaWatt Reactor. Because Lockheed was fucking insane.

Propulsion:
The AN6K is propelled by 4 NT-214 Highbypass Turbofan Engines. The largest jet engines ever built, each one generates over 550,000 KN of thrust during flight. The NT-214 Engines are unique in that they are able to operate of both regular jet fuel and the nuclear reactor. During takeoff and climb to altitude, the NT-124s burn jet fuel, switching to nuclear power once it reaches its final cruising altitude.

Range:
-Jet Fuel : 1,000 Km
-Nuclear : Limited only by food supplies

Reactor's okay on size... but spherical reactors are stupid. Cylindrical much more better.
Also, good thing to remember is that the reactor itself isn't nearly the biggest part of the system. A good portion of that plane would need to be reactor-plant spaces. For instance, I have a Reactor-plant plane of my own the size of a C-130, but only 1/3rd of it's cargo-bay holds a reactor and it requires to be parked right next to a sibling-plane that houses nothing but reactor-plant equipment, and they can only operate together. You can't just "extract electricity" from the reactor - granted, you could be using beta-decay like a thorium reactor, but that's very low power generation and suitable for little but keeping the lights on.
Look at HTRE-3 for example - you might be able to do an Air-Cooled reactor, but much of that grayed out space underneath the air-loops would also be associated to additional systems; turns out you can't control a reactor if you don't have the equipment to do it. Heck, the equipment to power the controlling elements, auxiliary cooling equipment, reactor-protection, nuclear instrumentation...
Or, for instance, the entire aft section of an attack submarine is dedicated to the reactor plant. True, you're getting rid of your turbine-generators, diesel, main engines, and shaft, but that doesn't buy you as much space as you might think; much of that space s also dedicated to water tanks, various cooling systems, and other aforementioned systems which will be present for any reactor.

Also, I give that sucker 3 months airtime.

If you're using an air-cooled reactor, you've also got the disadvantage that you have to keep the engines running for hours before flight and hours after flight, if not -days- after flight (especially late in life or after long flights) unless you feel like hooking up additional decay-heat removal equipment. Turnaround of this aircraft is going to be on the order of weeks.

1) First off as Estovina said, this is hardly a serious design, although I greatly appreciate the advice being offered. It's absolutely awesome having people like you who work with nuclear power for a living, and I intend to take full advantage of any advice you have to offer. It's a joke design at heart, but I'm taking it semi-seriously. After all I my writeup for a NS-MT Orion, spiraled into to a 10k+ word monstrosity. (A joke of which you can buy 24 of for every 1 Longsword your opponent buys)
2) Reactor is shown as spherical primarily because that's the way the CL-1201 Diagrams I've seen have show it's reactor, and there's other airborne reactor designs I've seen that have a spherical shaped core.
3) Electricity Generation would likely be drawn from generators in the Lol-huge Turbo-Fans. I can't say for sure because this writeup is roughly the size of the largest articles I have read on the CL-1201 and none of them mention electricity generation, but it seems a reasonable assumption to make given how it's many modern aircraft generate electrical power.
4) With regards to the space the other systems take up, I've allocated roughly the same amount of space as the CL-1201 has. Although I may lengthen the reactor compartment a tiny bit.
5) 3 Month Airtime is actually the expected max endurance I was going for. I mainly put Unlimited because as mentioned previously NS-Lol design pretty much requires it.
6) Reactor coolant system is liquid metal which in turn transfers the heat to the air in the engines, On the ground I figured I'd be able to hook the metal coolant loop to a shitload of external equipment to cool the reactor pre and post-flight (Via the magic of NS-Handwavium). I wasn't expecting a turnaround short of a a couple weeks at any rate, so requiring all that extra equipment isn't unexpected

[New Vihenia]

The forgotten warrior :3

Aim :3

[Ardavia]

The forgotten warrior :3

Aim :3

that looks sweet

[Purpelia]

The forgotten warrior :3

Aim :3

Did you do this all on your own? Because by Lenin is it awesome!

[Kouralia]

;-;

Does anyone know what happened to Oale?

[Ardavia]

;-;

Does anyone know what happened to Oale?

Oale got DEAT'd over something.

It's New Oyashima now.

[The Corparation]

;-;

Does anyone know what happened to Oale?

Oale got DEAT'd over something.

It's New Oyashima now.

Plus 3 Day Ban. It will be a lame non-kawaii 3 days.