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MOC: Marine Interstellaire AMX-IV Épée fighter
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Thu, 25 Apr 2002 23:19:39 GMT
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Hi, everyone.
At long last, I've build something! Emboldened by new canopies,
and bored with collecting parts and never building anything, I
decided to project the "next generation" of my venerable (c.1999)
Fusée snub-nosed fighter. This is the Épée, the adaptation of
that quaint little design for a wider range of combat duties
with the French Navy.
In this series of pictures, the vertically-oriented AMX fighters
are on their service trolleys; there is, importantly, no provision
for the Épée to recess into a ship hull as there was for the Fusée.
Anyways, here are the pictures; the technical notes come later:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=16089
The Épée is much larger than its smaller cousin, and it can only
operate from a carrier rather than being based on smaller (DD-size)
vessels. A couple of comparison pictures are there to show the
great differential in size between the two generations of fighter.
Understandibly, the performance of the Épée is far superior to its
smaller cousin; so too are the costs associated with it, and some
in the National Assembly maintain that the improvement is not
commensurate with the increase in cost. The fact that the AMX-IV
does not have an FTL drive makes the cost that much harder to
swallow. Sure, it's the fastest, most nimble fighter fielded by
any major navy at the moment of its commission, but the nearly-as-
good Teuton JS interceptor family costs less than half as much
per unit.
However, by the time of its introduction (2401), the Épée is needed
to fill the need for a front-line fighter to replace the 45-year-
old Curiasse. For that reason, the Épée is not likely to see
export even to France's most reliable client states and colonies;
besides being expensive, it is also the only major aerospace-combat
secret--however small--the French possess.
Anyways, let me know what you think. I apologize for not engreebling
it as much as some might, but the goal is to show "clean" and
"prototypical" (A-0 production model), so the wings are not instrument-
heavy...yet.
(And yes, it's "swooshable." Very much so. :) )
best
LFB
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| Tres bon! Il me rappelle un requin.... nageant l'océan de stratospherique! The vertically oriented ships are quickly becoming one of my favorite design profiles. They offer so much mountable surface space and an opportunity for creating an (...) (23 years ago, 26-Apr-02, to lugnet.space)
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