An Unscientific Mechanic

"It looks like VF-31... I feel that there is something missing without variable wings." Ian looked at the second test machine that had been manufactured.

When the No. 2 unit was being manufactured, Ian, Livonz, and Linda, who came back from shopping and joined the development team, reworked the heavy-duty backpack for the No. 2 unit.

Considering the increased weight of the body with the addition of a heavy backpack, the two engines and six gn particle injection ports on the legs may not be enough to slow down.

After the revision, the engine of the backpack component of the wing part is moved to the outermost side of the wing and mounted, and can rotate 360 ​​degrees to enhance the maneuverability of the body.

In order to install this new component, the forward-swept wing part of the test machine No. 2 was transformed into a foldable style, and the delta wing part directly took on the huge structural stress brought by the external component.

In order to prevent the wings from being torn off again by the huge propulsion force, the new backpack component uses electromagnetic force, traction beam, integrated structure to stabilize the position, and traditional physical contact methods. The four link methods are locked on the body together.

"Folding... That's right, the external backpack doesn't have to be mounted on the wings, wouldn't it be good to fold the forward-swept wings and install the external thrusters?" Ian watched as he folded a part of the wings and started The No. 2 machine that mounted the heavy backpack had a flash of inspiration.

"Master, start repairing unit one."

"learn."

Driven by the b1 robot, the No. 2 machine flew to the predetermined airspace together with the target drone for the exercise.

"Switch to remote control mode." Ian moved his limbs and boarded the simulated cockpit.

"The fleet has arrived at the predetermined position. The simulated battle begins." Livonz confirmed the status of both sides, and then announced the start of the exercise.

Ian pushed the throttle to the bottom, the powerful thrust brought by the eight engines, even with the inertial control device, brought an overload of nearly 4 g to the cockpit.

The inertial control device in the simulated cockpit perfectly simulated the situation in the cockpit, giving Ian a 4-g pushback feeling.

"Wow, that's good enough!"

"Target missile launch."

Eighty of Galaxy's latest short-range air-to-air missiles, AMM-311, equipped with exercise warheads, were fired from under the wings of 40 target drones.

Ian instantly found a relatively sparse location in the missile network according to the onboard AI's prompt. Then, the body changed direction extremely quickly, rushed into the missile net, and passed by the missile rain. Not a single missile was detonated.

"??? The drill bomb failed?" Linda turned to look at Livonz.

"The relative speed is too high, and the proximity fuze has not been activated." Livonz looked at the real-time data with a frown. "And from the current point of view, the maneuverability of the No. 2 aircraft equipped with a heavy backpack has surpassed that of missiles."

The attitude control nozzles on the lower part of the No. 2 aircraft's nose and the upper part of the tail jetted out. The No. 2 aircraft turned 180 degrees almost instantly, and then transformed into a human form. At the same time, Ian used the retinal scanning system to lock all the missiles.

"Shoot casually!" Ian pulled the trigger fiercely. The beam mounted on the arm was mixed with live ammunition Gatling, the gn Vulcan cannon on the head, the double-mounted heavy laser cannon on the flipped back, and the external wings. The phaser guns on the backpack fired at the locked target group in rapid fire mode.

In just two seconds of strafing, all 80 missiles were shot down, and it quickly transformed into an aircraft form, turning to fly towards the formation of target aircraft.

The 58mm Gatling cannon on the target aircraft began to fire at the No. 2 aircraft, and the mini-missiles on the aircraft also fired from time to time.

Ian drove the No. 2 machine to roll and dodge in the barrage, and pulled the trigger when the target machine entered the attack envelope, and the phaser or laser cannon would use the dense barrage to shoot down the target machine.

"Great!" After rushing past the target drone formation, the No. 2 drone pulled up at a large angle and drew a circle in the air. Ian aimed at all forty target drones again, and selected the weapon as a missile.

After selecting the weapon, all the missile pods were opened with their hatches open.

Ian pressed the launch button, and one hundred and twenty miniature air-to-air missiles were launched from the pods, and the white trail of smoke instantly flooded the No. 2 aircraft.

Ian shook the joystick slightly and rushed out of the smoke.

According to the program, the target drone quickly spread out, increased the thrust, and began to release the jammer.

"It's really spectacular." Hundreds of missiles with white tracks rushed towards their respective targets according to the distribution of the fire control system.

And each target drone released dozens of orange-red disruptor bombs with gray trails in a circle.

Some of the 120 missiles were affected by the jamming bombs, and instead locked on to the jamming bombs, directly collided with them and exploded, and some of them successfully found their targets and shot down the target drone. There is also a part, which was thrown off by the target drone and exploded in the air rashly after the fuel was exhausted.

"There are only eight aircraft left." Ian jettisoned the two empty missile pods, then changed course, and bit the six o'clock of a target aircraft. Shoot with two mounted Gatling cannons.

The target plane climbed up and slowed down sharply at the moment Ian was shooting, and when it arrived directly above Ian, it fired more than a dozen mini-missiles and then turned its nose to point at the No. 2 aircraft.

Ian manipulated the body to transform into a g walk form, and the external engine on the wing rotated 180 degrees to shoot forward, decelerated rapidly, and then transformed into a human form, intercepting all the missiles with cannons, dodging the shells of the target aircraft, and raising his hand and gun to destroy them. This target drone.

Then quickly locked the remaining seven target drones, and emptied all the remaining missiles at once. Let the seven target drones be submerged in the sea of ​​​​missiles.

"It feels good." Ian got off the simulator and couldn't get enough of it. "It's different from the heavy feel of ms and ma. Although it is equipped with a large number of external weapons, it does not affect her relatively light feel under the offset of the external thrusters. The main thrusters on the legs of the human form give it flexibility to maneuver. Sexuality has improved a lot. If we say that when driving MS, MS feels like manipulating a marionette driven by the torso. This feels like surfing. As for her most powerful straight-line acceleration ability ...is simply a wild horse."

During the Ian test, the anti-g system was quietly turned off. Although it was only a simulated overload, the feeling of being pressed hard on the driver's seat by the overload is really unstoppable.

There is also the extremely sensitive control system inherited from the YF-19, which further increases Ian's pleasure in operating this YF-35. According to Ian's feeling, this is simply like flying against the wind.

In addition, there is also the auxiliary AI-ARIEL, which is also inherited from yf-19. If the role of the general airborne AI is to be a close sister, assisting the pilot in fighter jet control and preventing the pilot from performing dangerous operations, ARIEL is a young woman who can do anything. Lover, her characteristic is that she will never care about "what should be done", but will only focus on "what you want to do", and then assist the pilot to do a good job. She will not correct the behavior of the pilot, but She will only quickly determine the pilot's intentions and then correct the body to fit the desired effect (even if it is a wrong, fatal operation). She is so well-behaved and annoying, no matter which posture you like, she will Adjust yourself to cater to it with all your strength, she supports and pampers the pilot wholeheartedly, and only wants you to get the feeling of flying in the sky. However, angels have a devil side. When a pilot with an unmatched level makes a wrong operation, ARIEL will not correct you.

If you make out-of-class, dangerous, and abnormal maneuvers, with the cooperation of ARIEL, congratulations, you are already dead.

For general aircraft, AI will directly limit the aircraft's feedback to such dangerous actions.

This directly led to the fact that whether it was the YF-19 back then or the current YF-35, they were all Mustangs that could only be controlled by super ace pilots.

Generally speaking, if a pilot slightly swings the joystick to control the body to turn 90 degrees, and this action is changed to 19 or 35, the fighter may have unconsciously rotated two weeks, which is 720 degrees.

So for ordinary pilots, 19 and 35 are probably things that make them daunting.

Quoting the evaluation of Colonel Takita, an ace pilot with more than 500 kills.

VF-19 is an airframe that most intuitively shows a pilot's own quality. From the results, the designer and the test center will use remarks such as "19 is a very sensitive airframe, very difficult to control" as a Conclusion, but such an evaluation cannot come from a pilot, because if you feel unable to adapt, it means that your operating level does not match, and once you match, 19 will make you feel very comfortable. So if you complain that the 19 is difficult to control, it is tantamount to humiliating yourself for the pilot.

When Ian sorted out his driving experience and recorded half of the body's performance, Hallelujah, who loves variable machines, drove the restored No. 1 test machine into the universe. He then returned to the Enterprise with symptoms of slight dehydration.

"Ian-san...has developed an incredible monster machine again." Hallelujah could only stand firmly with Mary's support.

Lyle, Neil and Tieria silently stayed away from the No. 1 machine. They were former fire support/sniper/fire support, not super ace pilots. Only Setsu stood in front of the machine with a cloudy expression, hesitating whether to try this machine that Hallelujah called a monster.

"It's done..." In the middle of the night, Yi An and the three of them stretched their muscles and walked away from the holographic design table.

The three of them thought hard in the afternoon, and made more than a dozen versions of external backpacks and modified versions for the YF-35.

In the end, the YF-35 that came up on a whim was finalized into two versions. The version of the No. 2 machine was temporarily named YF-36, and the general variable forward-swept wing version was tentatively designated as YF-35.

Yf-35 focuses on adaptability to ace drivers and super maneuverability in the atmosphere. But to the average pilot, this thing is a beautiful piece of shit.

The yf-36 focuses on versatility, and the main consideration is the deployment of general troops. It has more than a dozen models including command type, early warning type, electronic warfare type, forced detection type, and VIP delivery type. The airborne AI has also been replaced with an ARIEL3 model of the intimate big sister type.

According to Linda, who doesn't often fly vehicles, even a novice like her can fly this plane into the sky and then drive it back.

The above two kinds of variable fighters can be equipped with a total of five kinds of specially designed external backpacks including three kinds of high-mobility backpacks and two kinds of heavy-loading backpacks.

The high-mobility backpack A wing engine assembly is equipped with forty mini-missile pods and phase cannons.

The engine assembly of the B model is equipped with twin-tube heavy turbolaser cannons.

The engine package of the C model is equipped with a rotating turret with three phaser guns.

Heavy backpack A is mainly equipped with mini missile pods. As many as 14 medium and large missile pods are installed on the whole fuselage, a heavy laser cannon is mounted on the back, and a phaser cannon is mounted on the engine assembly.

The B model is equipped with four heavy-duty GN particle cannons on the body, and two powerful phaser cannons and four small phaser cannons on the wing components. There are only 4 external missile pods.

After finishing work, I heard that Shirley Lou's concert is about to start again.

Ian and the others left the Enterprise and waited to watch the concert at the residence arranged by Frontier.

Before leaving, Ian threw the parameters of YF-36 to the Galaxy Fleet. According to the information held by Ian, the Galaxy is extremely short of new main carrier-based aircraft.

Now the main carrier-based aircraft of the Galaxy are still two decades-old fighters, the vf-11ef and the modernized vf-2s.

As for why not fully refit 171?

After encountering Vajra, vf-171 has fully proved that he is not strong but sufficient performance, how embarrassing it will be to face such a high-performance enemy as Vajra.

Not to mention that the 171 is now under the premise of full production on the production line, and the monthly output is only a few hundred crickets. Even the central security forces directly under the new unified government can't satisfy, so how can they provide a large amount to the colonial fleet? At most, each fleet provides part of it as an ace force.

The fleet commander of the Galaxy Fleet only felt that the rumor that the Frontier Fleet started the development of the next-generation fighter vf-25 after learning of the existence of the Vajra was true. After all, according to the theoretical parameters, the mobility and combat effectiveness of the vf-25 can suppress the vajra.

And the vf-27 developed by our own side for the vf-25, under the intervention of the nebula group, has completely become a special fighter for cyborgs. The performance is strong, but natural people can't use it.

And the only vf-27a that natural people can use, its performance is a little worse than vf-25.

The price is almost a third more expensive.

Then it's better to bow your head to lAI and buy vf-25 directly.

When the Galaxy fleet government received Ian's fighter proposal, they were very pleasantly surprised. A general-purpose next-generation fighter for natural people? Solve the urgent need ah.

With a swipe of the pen, the commander-in-chief first delivered 30 pre-production models to the ace troops for experimentation.

Back to Ian, he is quite relaxed now.

The problem of Vajra has basically been solved. The queen and the whole group can communicate wirelessly. If the communication is not a problem, there should be no fights with Vajra.

It has been proven that Shirley Lu's V-type infection can be treated with nano-robots. It's just that it's a pity to directly clean up the fold bacteria in her body now, and it's a pity that Xue Lilu loses the fold wave launch ability.

"It's stable now. You can watch the concert with peace of mind." Ian thought so.

"Come and listen to my singing!" Xue Lilu's stage exploded with a whip.

Then, as usual, a left and right opening song of "Sagittarius". Instantly detonated the atmosphere of the scene.

Just at this moment, the fighting pods of dozens of Jietrati broke away from the fold thousands of kilometers away from the frontier.

The full version is fine, I watched the Super Dimension Fortress setting set for a day. It's really detailed, and I've read some of mf's official novels... so it's true that mf was a 50-episode year. There are too many things behind the animation, whether it is tv or theatrical version.