The VF1 Tyr
Introduction
The Valkyrie Aircraft VF1 Tyr is a twin-engine fifth-generation multi-role air superiority fighter with AWAC capabilities. The Tyr incorporates stealth, highly sophisticated fly-by-wire, and arctic devisability technologies. Along with electronic warfare, airborne early warning and control, and auto-flare defensive technologies. The VF1 was designed primarily as an all-mission, all weather homeland defense aircraft capable of high altitude radar defense, super-maneuverability, and electronic warfare suitable primarily for nations with inclimate arctic weather. The VF1 possesses the ability to destroy any type of conventional projectile fired at it within a range of up to 2 nautical miles, I.E missiles.
A VF1 piloted by AAF pilot Sven Gundersun taken during routine flights over the Northern Sea.
In-Flight Defenses
The North-Tec auto flare is arguably the modern worlds most adept in-air defense any military plane can wield, the auto flare system has 4 hard points around the plane that hold two boxes of 10 flares, for a total of 80 flares around the plane. The auto-flare defense is attached to the main fly-by-wire system (600,500 nervous centers) and the 245,590 sensory nerves placed around the plane, so when the flare system senses a projectile threat it shoots two flares from the hard point that it feels is most closest to the oncoming threat. The system is able to detect exactly what is being fired and will relay all information about the type, size, and abilities of the hostile missile to the pilot and control tower/center; even if the system doesn't react to the threat, it still relays all info, regardless of size or the damage it could cause. It will also not fire a flare if the projectile is a bullet, it will only fire at objects larger than a foot in length, the pilot can also tell the system not to fire the flares by (at the press of a single button) overriding the command. The hard points are located in the nose, center and sides of the Fuselage.
The stealth of the VF1 is due to a combination of factors, including the overall shape of the aircraft, the use of radar absorbent material (RAM), and attention to detail such as hinges and pilot helmets that could provide a radar return. However, reduced radar cross section is one of five facets of presence reduction addressed in the designing of the VF1. The VF1 was designed to disguise its infrared emissions, reducing the threat of infrared homing ("heat seeking") surface-to-air or air-to-air missiles, including its flat thrust vectoring nozzles. The aircraft was designed to be less visible to the naked eye; radio, heat and noise emissions are equally controlled.
Airborne Early Warning and Control
The VF1-Tyr is equipped with an Airborne Early Warning sensor inside its nose, though small it can provide a radar radius of 450 miles (at full power/double pulse rate) almost eliminating the need for conventional awacs, though this sensor is only truly trustworthy inside of a 250 m radius. The issues have mostly been caused by the fact that the pulse-doppler radar is inside of the nose, encompassed in wires and the aircraft's fuselage. The reason being is that the radar could not be raised to the exterior of the nose for fear that to much maneuverability and Stealth would be sacrificed for it to be worth the small AWAC's range, furthermore it would disrupt flight otherwise. So it was kept in the nose, the radar was shrunk, which made it less of a burden on the plane; this sacrificed 250-300 miles of range for the radar, however the radar has an auxiliary energy reserve that is specifically meant to give the radar extra power. While running on this battery the sensor can detect any three dimensional object in a 450 mile radius as the Pulse-Doppler radar sends out .5 its normal pulse rate. This feature takes up a lot of energy and the battery lasts at maximum, only up to 6 minutes however upgrades can be made that give the plane 20 minutes of full on radar and AWAC capabilities.
A flight of Tyrs can be linked via radar into a main AWAC aircraft which then allows it to operate in a network with multiple other AWAC and Fighter aircraft in tandem with each other to produce multiplied results for radar defense, creating a mobile modern variant of England's coastal radar defenses of the 2nd World War. Allowing an E-3 Sentry to act as a moving Headquarters of intelligence that can be used to eliminate the need for smaller, long term air force bases overseas during wartime. Instead, with the abilities of in-flight refueling, etc. repairs would be made at a few larger, key bases allowing forces to not be spread so thinly.
Advanced Aerodynamics
The VF1 Tyr's design was designed to be stealth like the F-22 Raptor, yet maintain the aerodynamic advantages that give aircraft like the F-16 greater speed and climb rates than others. To do this, a great deal of time and money went into the study of birds of prey; specifically the Peregrine Falcon. From the perfect dive rates of these birds was discovered a way to maintain the smooth rounded, streamlined shape of an multi-purpose fighter while keeping stealth, silence, countermeasures, and even maneuverability of a stealth fighter. In turn the team decided that the answer was simpler than previously thought, make the sides and fuselage hard cut and hidden from radar/infra-red but then make the space behind the cockpit teardrop-shaped, along with the cockpit itself and not only could you maintain stealth and speed, but the turn rate was highly increased. The to increase the VF1's ability to achieve quick reaction time, the VF1 was outfitted with an AARCC-21 or Ardenian Aerospace Reaction Control Center 21, a version of the basic military drone nervous center used by Ardenian Forces upgraded for maximum performance on a fighter jet's platform. The AARCC-21 is capable of 95 billion avionics related calculated decisions per second, allowing the pilot to focus more on the fight or the mission, while still relaying all gathered intelligence to him/her and the control tower. In total there are 800,500 sensory nervous centers around the plane all wired into the AARCC-21.
Arctic Warfare Capabilities
The VF1 Tyr was designed to be the first, twin-engine multi-role arctic warfare fighter in existance, and so far has been a success. With everything from freeze resistant fuel (and flame resistant) to heated seats the VF1 has gone above and beyond our expectations for what it was meant to do in the extreme arctic climates of Northern Ardenhelm's Bleikrfjall Mountains and the Frozen Tundra of the Northern Ice Caps beyond. The VF1's design was meant to make it able to perform to its maximum in conditions anywhere from 200 to -90 degrees Fahrenheit. Weather resistant and durable, a very Ardenian feature.
General Information
To Purchase, a nation must fit the following criteria:
Must be a Member State of The Region of Lakka
Must be an ally of The Republic of Ardenhelm