South Aropa has a single squadron of 5 XCA-2023 Gold Ravens used in the most sensitive situations.
Crew: 1 pilot.
Armour: Medium nano assembled NeuChrome Composite skin with NeuCrome Frame
Mass: 32 tons (Unloaded) 40 tons (Maximum load).
Armament: 4x 20mm auto railguns. 2x Ion cannons. 2x forward EMP beamers. 12x concealed light air-to-air missiles. 4x concealed heavy air-to-air missiles.
Drive: 2x Arrowbolt Hyper-Sonic Ethanol turbo jet engines with ion atmosphere intake. Mach 1.4 (Ion Atmosphere) Mach 6.7 (Afterburn fuel)
Other: "Shredder" Missile counter measures. Point Defence Laser. V-tol thrust vectoring. Optical camouflage. Stealth Shield Cloaking. Nano mysting self repair. EMP Shielding.
But the bulk of the airforce consists of a ludicrous amount of small, cheap, under preforming, but incredibly agile fighters.
The Humming Bird is the primary Air-to-Air fighter, going in first to clear the skies and allow other aircraft to do thier jobs.
Crew: 1 pilot .
Armour: NeuChome Composite frame. Artificial Muscle membrane.
Mass: 23 tons unloaded. 29 tons maximum load.
Armament: 4x 20mm Foreward Auto Railguns. 6x medium Air-to-Air misile hardpoints.
Drive: 1x NeuChome enhanced Rolls Royce "Euro-Jet 200" Jet engine with "Ion Atmosphere" intake. Aditional afterburn fuel tanks. Mach 1.4 top airspeed (no fuel). Mach 3.2 (afterburn fuel).
Other: Anti-Missile Point Defence Laser Aray. Flexible Morphing Wings. V-tol thrust redirection vents. Some equiped comendeered "Stealth Shield" units.
The Locust Fighter/Bomber is a multi-role strike fighter, used in all manner of missions from tactical bombings to fighter escort, even attack gunship just like a helicoper. The most remarkable feature howebver is it's ability to fly, at speed, sideways or backwards thanks it's uniqe thust vectoring system.
Crew: 1 pilot's seat, can be raplaced with A.I. controll unit.
Armour: Light carbon fiber and aluminum shell with composite steel and neuchrome frame.
Mass: 15 tons unloaded. 21 tons maximum load.
Armament: 2x 20mm Foreward Auto Railguns. 4x light amrs above wing hardpoints. 2x under body heavy arms hardpoints.
Drive: 2x NeuChome enhanced Rolls Royce "Pegasus" Jet engines with "Ion Atmosphere" intake. Aditional afterburn fuel tanks. Mach 0.8 top airspeed (no fuel). Mach 1.6 (afterburn fuel).
The Wasp drone craft is the dedicated interceptor and escort fighter. Since it carries no missiles as standard (there are a few exceptons) it is armed with ten very heavy guns to shred anything unlucky enough to be infront of it.
Crew: None. Highly intelegent A.I. controll system.
Armour: Light carbon fiber shell with composite steel frame.
Mass: 9 tons unloaded. 11 tons maximum load.
Armament: 10x 20mm Foreward Auto Railguns. Some versions have a sigle heavy hardpoint mounted underneath for one large missile or bomb.
Drive: 2x NeuChome enhanced Rolls Royce "Pegasus" Jet engines with "Ion Atmosphere" intake. Mach 0.8 top airspeed.
All three these fighters are very very agile and can easily out maneuver any aircraft or even some missiles and shoot them out of the sky before they can do harm, added to that, they are are allways used in large groups and support eachother in that manner.