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Re: MOC: Marine Interstellaire AMX-IV Épée fighter
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Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:33:39 GMT
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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 interesting aesthetic.
The new canopy (still on my wishlist)works exceptionally well here...the
curve of it is pleasingly picked up by the intakes, and sweep of the wing.
My only complaint...more pictures! Perhaps some detailed ones of the cockpit?
Great design...look forward to the future task-specific mods.
Cheers,
-G
In lugnet.space, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
>
> 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:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=16089
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> 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.
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> 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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