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HRT-28/B 'Harrier' VTOL as used by the Escean Military.
Year of Service Entry: 2094.
The Hale Recon Transport – 28 /Bravo - also known as the ‘Harrier’ - was designed and manufactured by the KHA Aerospace Division in 2091 as a small, lightly armed scout aircraft for the Escean military, entering service in 2094.
The Harrier is an all-weather scout aircraft with a light troop carrying capability, developed for high-speed assault operations in tightly confined environments. With precedence placed on speed and mobility, the aircraft is equipped with only a single, dorsal-mounted and fixed 25mm Gatling cannon for armament, making it the most lightly armed of any Escean military VTOL.
Flight surfaces of the Harrier are based upon those of the Thundersnow, albeit scaled down to accommodate its reduced size. Like its larger cousins, the Harrier has a pair of dedicated Skylark L623 lifting engines to assist in vertical take-off, or sustained hovering, with intake vents to provide air-cooling. The shape of the cowling for these engines - like those of the Thundersnow - is designed to improve lift and fuel efficiency.
The HRT-26/B design uses a modified pair of BX85 Pitch Thrust Vectoring Turbofans, known as the Pyotr-E series. Unlike other KHA VTOLs, the Harrier mounts its engines directly above the fuselage as opposed to the wings in a bid to reduce the wingspan of the aircraft. It also differs from its transport brethren in foregoing any form of retractable landing pad in favour of a retractable tricycle undercarriage, similar to that installed on the HG-64/Z ‘Hellfire’.
In addition to a single pilot, a Harrier can transport up to eight personnel, the size of a typical SOF team. Weight and size concerns mean that passengers sit facing outward, four to a side, and do not have the luxury of compartment doors for protection against enemy fire or environmental hazards. However, passengers can also disembark easily and simultaneously. A common tactic employed by Harrier pilots is to position their aircraft on the lip of a building and allow their passengers to simply step off onto the rooftop. This method is one of the quickest means of inserting assault teams onto targets. A Harrier is also equipped with a FRIES (Fast-Rope Insertion/Extraction System) bar that swings out from a stowed position above the troop compartment door and allows passengers to deploy onto a target too small even for a Harrier to set down.
Like all modern military VTOLs, the Harrier employs state-of-the-art avionics, as well as a collimated windshield, Artificial Assistant program and haptic flight controls, activated via CIT or SST cards. As with any aircraft, physical backups are installed in case of catastrophic haptic failure.
While chiefly deployed with the Escean military, particularly the Army (including 6th Air Corps), the Harrier has also seen widespread usage in the civilian market. Non-military deployments include numerous emergency services, power companies and news channels. Modifications are made where applicable.
Specifications:
Crew: 1 (Pilot)
Capacity: 8 Troops
Length: 9m
Wingspan: 6.7m
Height: 3.9m
Empty Weight: 2,432kg
Loaded Weight: 3,380kg
Max. Takeoff Weight: 4,000kg
Powerplant: 2x Pytor-E BX85 Pitch Thrust Vectoring Turbofans, 2x Skylark L623 Vertical Lifting Engines.
Maximum Speed: Mach 0.86
Range: 400nmi
Combat Radius: 180nmi
Ferry Range: 700nmi
Service Ceiling: 20,000ft
Rate of Climb: 18,000ft/min
Armament: 1x K-1B 25mm Gatling Cannon w/500 Rounds.
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Comments: 23
What happens to the aircraft incase of an engine failure. Since there are no rotors it can't autorotate like a helicopter, does it have a ballistic recovery system like some small aircraft do? If not that should be a small world building detail added to your aircraft.
Best Regards,
Endorfinator!
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It does indeed. Even my massive Condor has four very large ballistic recovery chutes
In the case of the pilot being killed or incapacitated, the on-board AA will initiate a protocol to take control of and land the aircraft if possible.
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"Lieutenant MOAB, sir. Permission to express concern about this design, sir?"
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Have you tried ketchup packets sir, also couldn't the marines place their flak jackets on the fries devise. Just hold you armour in front of your self and pray.
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"MOAB, sir. Will a future model of the Harrier feature armored sliding doors to protect the passengers? Also, a ketchup compartment for the FRIES, sir?"
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Well, when I considered including doors my ideas were either for a sliding pair (although I worried about space between the door at full retraction and the tail boom, and whether they'd interrupt), or ones that open upward, with the lower part hinged to fold in on itself. Only issue with that is it would interfere with the FRIES mounting system.
Theres always potential for doors to be added, or an alternative form of protection (actually want to mod the current picture for the attack variant). At the point in my universe that I'm focusing on (for my main plot) shield generators are in the process of being miniaturised for armoured vehicles and personal armour. Experimental stage, but future upgrade blocks could include something along those lines.
Alternatively, a small and localised version of the particle fields used on starships to stop people or atmosphere being sucked into space when hangar doors are open, could form a passive door. They work on that good old velocity principle where fast moving objects are stopped, but slow moving passes easily.
Also, so far, Airbone Ketchup Containment remains beyond the grip of modern technology.
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Loooovvvvve iiiiiiiitttttt!!!!! XD
Only problem is the armament. Why'd you decide to go with a single fixed Gatling gun? At the very least, mount it in a turret and give the troops in the passenger bay pintos mounted guns. Additionally, it looks like you could mount a few hard points under the "wings"
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Thank you very much
Mostly a weight-saving issue, plus it's a pretty big gun. I tried to install the turret from the Thundersnow, but it appeared too ungainly on the smaller airframe. As for the doors and wings, the position of the seats, with the bracing bars installed, would prevent the occupants from using any mounted weapon. They can use their own weapons, however. Pylons under the wings would obstruct the path out from the doors and lead to a lot of sore foreheads
The Harrier is more or less my future AU equivalent of the Littlebird. A dedicated attack model can always be added later, but this version is just used for recon and light transport
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