KerbalX

Mods

• Airplane Plus
• Automated Aerial Refueling System
• B9 Procedural Wings Modified
• BDArmoryContinued
• Ferram Aerospace Research
• KWS : Kerbal Weapons System
• Kerbal Foundries2
• Procedural Parts
• Squad (stock)
• TweakScale - Rescale Everything!
• dck

Details

• Type: SPH
• Class: aircraft
• Part Count: 100
• Mods: 11

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Once again overhauled, it’s now lighter and faster, with a lower part count and gaudy noseart.
Designed to take major damage and give out much more, the ‘Blitzen’ is ideal for flying low over a field, losing half a wing, and landing on a flat patch of dirt after. Just don’t expect to be going fast at all, armour comes at a heavy price.

Specifications

• Crew: 1
• Length: 15.0 m
• Height: 15.5 m
• Wingspan: 20.6 m
• Empty Weight: 9150 kg
• Loaded Weight: 12920 kg
  • CAS Mission: 16000 kg
  • Anti-Armour: 17000 kg
• Max takeoff weight: 18000 kg
• Powerplant: 2x CF34-J85 turbofans, 54.2 kN each

Performance

• Maximum Speed: 280 m/s
• Endurance: ~1 hour(s) (2/3 throttle, CAS loadout)
• Service Ceiling: 10000m @ 240 m/s
• Rate of Climb: 50 m/s
• Thrust/Weight: 0.44 unloaded
• Max G-load: 9 g

Armament

• 1x GAU-8 with 1200 rounds
• 9 hardpoints (8x under-wing and 1x under-fuselage) with a capacity up to 5000 kg and provisions to carry combinations of:
• Missiles:
  • 2× AIM-9 Sidewinders (self-defense)
  • 6× AGM-65 Mavericks
• Bombs: You get the idea now
• Others:
  • Flares and Chaff dispenser and
  • Up to 2x Mk0x3 drop tanks

Avionics

• Integrated FLIR pod (Port side gear shroud)
• ALQ-131 ECM Jammer
• BDA Weapon Manager
• AI Pilot Flight Computer

Blitzen has a few layers of redundancy, including rudder-braking, aileron flaps, and secondary landing gear.

In more extreme cases, otherwise critical damage can still be managable. Asymmetric loss can be mitigated through ‘Manual Coersion Mode’; in this context forcing half the airbrakes to reduce lift on the remaining wing.