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Description
This is the XM-3 Technology Testbed Aircraft, nicknamed "Target", due to its immense radar cross-section.

This expensive, and ridiculous looking aircraft is not intended for actual combat. There are only 4 made and it is merely designed to test new technologies and push them to their limits.

Due to its strange shape and engine, it feature last-gen fly-by-wire technology and is capable to be modified for Remote-Control for testing under extreme G-forces, such as encountered by supersonic supermaneuverability. Its supermaneuverability is made possible by its strange wingshape, which gives it superb stall-behavior, its "triple tail", which features independably-steered elevators, rudders and ruddervators, 30 degrees of thrust-vectoring everywhere in the 2d-enviroment, and special "vacuum/bleed valves", which are wing-based grates which can be opened and closed to either pull a vacuum under/above the wing, bleed engine thrust under/above the wing, or simply create drag under/above the wing.

The two engines are a prototype Turbojet-powered afterburning ramjet. Which works as following: The air enters trough the front airintakes, after which it is slowed down due to engine-geometry and some is bypassed to the augmentor. The air that enters the turbojet engine is used to produce (relatively) oxygen-rich exaust gasses, after which a augmentor pours bleeded air in the exaust gasses which then enter a ramjet which burns most of the remaining oxygen and creates high pressure, high speed exaust air which after passing throug a (scramjet-like) afterburner gets aimed by the vector-exaust and pushes the aircraft foward.

All of these things make it a unpractical aircraft, but it is loved during airshows because of its maneuverability and has paved the way for engine-bleed steering.

Technical Specifications:
Fuel(Turbojet only flight): Basic Kerosine
Fuel(Other flights): Pressurized Acetylene/Hydrogen mixture.
Minimum Takeoff Speed(Turbojet only): 350 km/h
Minimum Takeoff Speed(Turbojet, Ramjet+afterburner): 175 km/h
Cruising Speed(Turbojet only): Mach 1.1
Cruising Speed(Ramjet only): Mach 3.2
Cruising Speed(Afterburning Ramjet): Mach 4.1
Maximum speed: Mach 4.9 (sustained), Mach 6.8 (never exeed)
Cruising Altitude: 7.5 km
Range(Turbojet only): 5.500 km
Range(Ramjet only): 7.000 km
Range(Afterburning Ramjet only): 1.500 km
Range(Turbojet, Ramjet+afterburner): 500 km
Service Ceiling: 24,000 m(Sustained), 43,000 m(Zoom climb)
Powerplant: 2x"X-3 Turboramjet" providing over 500.000 hp sustained.

Description
This is the XM-3 Technology Testbed Aircraft, nicknamed "Target", due to its immense radar cross-section.

This expensive, and ridiculous looking aircraft is not intended for actual combat. There are only 4 made and it is merely designed to test new technologies and push them to their limits.

Due to its strange shape and engine, it feature last-gen fly-by-wire technology and is capable to be modified for Remote-Control for testing under extreme G-forces, such as encountered by supersonic supermaneuverability. Its supermaneuverability is made possible by its strange wingshape, which gives it superb stall-behavior, its "triple tail", which features independably-steered elevators, rudders and ruddervators, 30 degrees of thrust-vectoring everywhere in the 2d-enviroment, and special "vacuum/bleed valves", which are wing-based grates which can be opened and closed to either pull a vacuum under/above the wing, bleed engine thrust under/above the wing, or simply create drag under/above the wing.

The two engines are a prototype Turbojet-powered afterburning ramjet. Which works as following: The air enters trough the front airintakes, after which it is slowed down due to engine-geometry and some is bypassed to the augmentor. The air that enters the turbojet engine is used to produce (relatively) oxygen-rich exaust gasses, after which a augmentor pours bleeded air in the exaust gasses which then enter a ramjet which burns most of the remaining oxygen and creates high pressure, high speed exaust air which after passing throug a (scramjet-like) afterburner gets aimed by the vector-exaust and pushes the aircraft foward.

All of these things make it a unpractical aircraft, but it is loved during airshows because of its maneuverability and has paved the way for engine-bleed steering.

Technical Specifications:
Fuel(Turbojet only flight): Basic Kerosine
Fuel(Other flights): Pressurized Acetylene/Hydrogen mixture.
Minimum Takeoff Speed(Turbojet only): 350 km/h
Minimum Takeoff Speed(Turbojet, Ramjet+afterburner): 175 km/h
Cruising Speed(Turbojet only): Mach 1.1
Cruising Speed(Ramjet only): Mach 3.2
Cruising Speed(Afterburning Ramjet): Mach 4.1
Maximum speed: Mach 4.9 (sustained), Mach 6.8 (never exeed)
Cruising Altitude: 7.5 km
Range(Turbojet only): 5.500 km
Range(Ramjet only): 7.000 km
Range(Afterburning Ramjet only): 1.500 km
Range(Turbojet, Ramjet+afterburner): 500 km
Service Ceiling: 24,000 m(Sustained), 43,000 m(Zoom climb)
Powerplant: 2x"X-3 Turboramjet" providing over 500.000 hp sustained.