In 2002, two heavyweight air combat animations were released. One is the long-lasting classic series "The Fortress of the Time and Space Zero", and the other is the Gonzo Society's 10th anniversary commemoration work "Fighting Fairy Snow Wind". The unique charm of "Fighting Fairy Snow Wind" is only revealed under the dazzling light of the Super Time Fortress.
Super Time Space Fortress ZERO
Five-episode OVA animation "Fighting Fairy Snow Wind" is adapted from the novel series of the same name by science fiction writer Shen Lin Changping. Five-episode OVA integrates the novel content of "Fighting Fairy Snow Wind·Adapted" and "GOOD LUCK Fighting Fairy Snow Wind" and adds an original ending. The story tells the story of the Earth being invaded by unknown alien JAM and opened the hyperspace channel. After passing through the channel, humans found that they had arrived at the -type earth planet "Feyali Star" suspected to be the home planet of JAM. So humans formed the Fairy Air Force (FAF for short) on the spot to launch a lasting tug-of-war with JAM. The protagonist, Zero Kuroi, serves in the "Special War" unit under the FAF, flies a tactical reconnaissance aircraft equipped with advanced airborne computers to collect intelligence on teammates' combat with JAM at high altitude, and unconditionally believe in the judgment of the airborne computer of the fighter jet "Snow Wind". "Fighting Fairy Snow Wind" is a surprising level of sound effects and combat scenes of fighters, with more detailed terms and details of air combat.
I personally like the various machinery and weapons in the animation. Of course, I was also attracted by the various fighter jets in the animation. This time we will introduce the FFR-31 series fighter jets, the main force of the FAF.
FFR-31 Sylphid
FFR-31 Sylphid is a heavy air-optimal fighter of the Fiali Air Force and is also the earliest fighter designed and developed by FAF. Taking into account the characteristics of JAM, it was originally designed as a heavy all-weather long-range interceptor/ fighter bomber , emphasizing the combat capability of high-altitude/low-altitude high-speed flight and carrying heavy over-visual ammunition for interception/attack. However, as the war changes, the requirements require that traditional fighting air combat capabilities also need to be improved. Therefore, the aerodynamic layout of was adjusted, the sweep angle was reduced, and the three-wing surface design and three-dimensional vector nozzle were used to improve maneuverability. It was finally established as a heavy air-optimal fighter, but it still has outstanding acceleration and extreme speed performance, and has supersonic cruise capabilities. The development stage is codenamed FRX-44, and the finalized code is FFR-31, nicknamed Sylphid/Sylph is the legendary Wind Fairy.
FFR-31 adopts a three-wing layout and stealth design. And faithfully to its "original as a long-range interceptor" setting, it is equipped with a mainframe belly bomb bay that can have multiple medium and long-range air-to-air missiles built-in. Since JAM does not seem to use radar as a sensor, the stealth design becomes meaningless, so the FFR-31 uses its plug-in points as much as possible in subsequent battles, and the development of new FAF models basically no longer considers the stealth performance.
In OVA settings, FFR-31 has undergone modernization, collectively known as "Sylphid Enhanced Experiments" (SEEX), including avionics improvements, expanding wing area, reducing control surface action blocks, etc. The original renovation plan included a total of 13 versions of baseline 0-12, but it was merged due to some improvements, and the final implementation was 9 versions of 0-8. Despite this, no relevant information was left on the specific reasons for the adjustment of the improvement plan. The first batch of
FFR-31 produced 1 to 10 batches caused by their performance, and the FAF suffered from insufficient budget due to various difficulties on the earth, resulting in only 94 production aircraft, including prototypes and trial production aircraft. After deducting the spare aircraft and retaining them as original test aircraft, there were only 3 squadrons and 49 aircraft left in the FFR-31 Block 1-10 deployed to the front-line troops. The shortage of numbers also makes it difficult for front-line troops to master the FFR-31. Among the three squadrons, only the 526th Tactical Fighter Squadron "Ghou" is famous for its ability as a FFR-31 unit, which has also affected the performance of FFR-31 combat effectiveness.
As the frontline calls for FFR-31 to increase production, the Block 11-20 batches were urgently produced. However, the new batch of FFR-31, which should have been a timely help, was dissatisfied by front-line pilots, because the Block 11-20 batches have been appropriately simplified in design for mass production and cost reduction, such as material adjustments in some of the body structures, simplified parts, and downgrading of flight control software. Although the general indicators of this batch of machines such as extreme speed and ceiling are no different from those before Block 10, the maximum performance of the envelope edge, the flexibility of the software, service life and reliability are slightly reduced. Therefore, front-line troops complained about the new batch of FFR-31s, especially the three veteran squadrons led by the 526th Squadron. The pilots called the FFR-31 before the Block 10 batch "original FFR-31" and believed that these fuselages were considered real FFR-31s.
OVA version of FFR-31 adopts a cut-tip triangular wing main wing, both sides intake, and large-area double full-move flat tail layout, and the main wing also maintains the same 42-degree sweep angle. But the fuselage has become a wide lift body design, with a flat back and belly. The nose and fuselage combine the shape of the continuous curved surface and the non-vertical plane required for stealth. The front edge is sharp and flat to reduce radar scattering and improve maneuverability. The area near the canard wings and intake ducts is cut into planes to reduce aerodynamic interference. In addition, large-area full-movement canards are provided on both sides of the cockpit, and the rear fuselage is a large-area trapezoidal vertical tail. To ensure stealth performance, the front and trailing edge sweep angles of all wing surfaces are aligned with each other. There are seven small bomb bays arranged in the belly of the lift body fuselage, each equipped with a set of swing ejection hangers, which can carry an air-to-air missile. The dual-engine nacelle is located on both sides of the lift body and is arranged with a wide pitch. The front end is an adjustable inclined plate binary ultrasonic intake channel. The rear end of the lift body fuselage contracts between the double-engine nacelles to form a vacancy, and the FFR-31MR also uses this structure.
There is also an improvement plan for FFR-31 called "Advanced Sylphid". The improvement projects include lengthening the front fuselage and repairing the radar cover , aerodynamic repairing the candle and increasing the flat tail area, installing the conformal fuel tank on the back of the machine to increase the range, and lengthening and expanding the bomb bay, and extending the rear end of the lift body into an extension section of the main wing to form a more complete and efficient lift body structure; the landing gear is strengthened, and the front landing gear is changed to double wheels to carry the larger load and take-off weight after modification.
In OVA, part of the FFR-31 of the front-line troops is also painted with a unique dislocation digital camouflage, which is said to be able to interfere with the JAM sensory senses.
The 526th Tactical Fighter Squadron "Ghou" is seen in the figure. The misaligned digital camouflage of the "Ghoul" of the 526th Tactical Fighter Squadron
FFR-31MR Super Sylph
FAF fighter jets no longer use HUD ( head-up display ). FFR-31MR is a helmet display, FA-2 is unknown. FFR-41MR is a helmet display + holographic display
FFR-31MR is a tactical reconnaissance aircraft of the FFR-31. Its main purpose is "special warfare" and is also the original landline of the protagonist Mio Fukui. The FFR-31MR is modified from FFR-31 and is code-named FRX-44SS in the development stage. Improvements include the installation of airborne avionics equipment with higher intelligence and computing capabilities, and the installation of the "Tactical Aerial Reconnaissance Pod System" reconnaissance pod. At the same time, because mission needs focus more on high-altitude and high-speed cruise, the fuselage has been modified. In general, it still has a lot in common with the basic FFR-31 model.
TARPS After removal, half of it is empty.
OVA has almost only the same tactical numbers as FFR-31. Except for the same engine compartment and fuselage parts, the layout of each system from aerodynamic to airborne equipment has been completely overturned and redone. Since it is the protagonist machine, it should be more amazing in terms of settings than the FFR-31, which is a mass production machine.In terms of settings, the FFR-31MR is called a newly developed high-performance tactical reconnaissance aircraft that the FFR-31 cleverly accrues to obtain budgets under the name of the FFR-31's tactical reconnaissance aircraft modification.
As a tactical reconnaissance aircraft and a certain degree of long-range interceptor, the FFR-31MR has greatly specialized high-speed flight and maneuverability in aerodynamic design, and has excellent supersonic cruise and maneuverability. The FFR-31MR has been modified more thoroughly in aerodynamic layout. It changed the basic three-wing surface layout to a duck-style layout suitable for supersonic flight and maneuver. The main wing sweep angle is still 42 degrees, but the plane shape becomes a diamond suitable for supersonic , and the wing tip has added a lower reverse wingtip that can produce a wave-bias effect to increase the available lift of ultrasonic speed. The nose is also sharper and longer, which greatly increases the length of the entire aircraft and reduces ultrasonic wave resistance.
The design of the intake and engine bay is basically the same as that of the FFR-31, but because the working Mach number is higher, the two-stage adjustable incline plate at the front is longer and the sweep angle is larger. The TARPS pod is mounted between the two engine nacelles through two hydraulic support arm structures, and the rotating shaft mechanism connected to the fuselage by the "element" phased array radar antenna as the third connection point, forming a three-point support structure.
After installing the TARPS pod
TARPS pod consists of two parts: the pod body and the "element" phased array radar antenna. The phased array radar antenna is stored in the midline of the belly when folded. In order to avoid interference with the antenna in the storage state, the front landing gear is set on the left side of the nose. In order to compensate for the impact of front landing gear bias to improve ground handling quality, the main landing gear of the FFR-31MR moved inward to the inside of the dual-engine nacelle and changed to a rocker-arm structure of the outer eight. In order to store the main landing gear, there is a larger bulge on the inside of the engine nacelle, which is also used to store the support structure used to mount the TARPS. When the radar antenna is unfolded, it flips downward by 90 degrees, is raised in the center of gravity position of the belly midline and passes through the fuselage from the gap between the TARPS pod and the fuselage structure. There is a widened part protruding outwardly on the top of the phased array antenna. When stored, it extends upward from the gap between the TARPS pod and the fuselage to form a rear-back tail. An electronic reconnaissance antenna and a reconnaissance camera are installed below the TARPS pod body, and a rearview radar antenna is located behind. The avionics of
FFR-31MR is configured as a mechanical scanning pulse Doppler radar in the nose radar cover using a flat-slit antenna, and an fairing with both sides of the cockpit as a sidebar. There is a side view passive phased array radar facet in each of the TARPS pods mounted on the belly of the aircraft. The FFR-31MR's on-board avionics system has the strong performance of integrating and interpreting the sensor's collection of intelligence in real time. This purpose is to use the data link to return the information in real time for reasons such as confidentiality and concealment, and can also rely on the local machine to complete the information collection and sorting.
FFR-31MR series is still equipped with a special combat-specific low interception rate targeted encrypted data link, called "Special War Super Data Link" (SSW). It uses extremely complex encryption and frequency agile algorithms, as well as highly directed transmit/receive antennas, to achieve high capacity and low interception rates.
FFR-31MR is a tactical reconnaissance aircraft considering its high-altitude and high-speed performance to ensure survivability, but does not rely too much on self-defense weapons. In addition to the two fuselage hanging points that are the same as FFR-31 and are used to mount sub-fuel tank or long-range air-to-air missiles, there are only two external plug-ins under the wings that can be hung with composite hangers carrying 2 AAM-III/V air-to-air missiles.
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FFR-31MR/D Super Sylph
FFR-31MR/D is the original model of OVA's deep well zero landline. FFR-31MR has four modifications: A, B, C, and D.In terms of setting, FFR-31MR is an advanced tactical reconnaissance aircraft that further strengthens the high-altitude high-speed performance and avionic system capabilities. However, after being equipped with the scramjet engine, its high-altitude high-speed performance and long-range performance are greatly enhanced, so it can be used as the strategic reconnaissance aircraft to perform long-range high-speed penetration breakthrough reconnaissance mission in the JAM hinterland.
FFR-31MR/D
, but the snow wind, as the protagonist's lander, is not equipped with a scram booster. One way to test the performance of the D type in its original design tactical reconnaissance mission, so it does not need to be equipped with an ram engine booster. Another way to say that it is forced to scram booster due to insufficient budget. In the remaining FFR-31MR modifications, Type A was developed as a long-range interceptor, but was cancelled due to overlapping performance with the SEEX improvement project of FFR-31; Type B/C was the performance improvement model of airborne equipment and the development and replacement improvement model, which was eventually integrated into the baseline 1-6 series improvement and combat capability improvement (ICAP) improvement project of FFR-31MR without any numbering.
Compared with the basic model, the FFR-31MR/D has a longer and sharper appearance to reduce aerodynamic resistance. The canard area has been increased and the sweep angle has been increased to 45 degrees. The edge bar shape at the wing root has been changed from the simple straight line of the FFR-31MR basic type to a more complex and three-dimensional torsional sharp arch to improve take-off and landing performance. The main wing sweep angle is still 42 degrees that the FFR-31 series is in line with, and the basic wing tip wings are retained, but the wingspan is significantly reduced to improve high-speed performance. In contrast, the wings are increased to extend the wing chord length to compensate for the wing area lost in the reduction of the wingspan. The mid-frame of the
D model has made major changes compared with the FFR-31 and FFR-31MR basic model. The double-engine spacing is narrowed to reduce the cross-sectional area of the fuselage to reduce resistance. At the same time, the original FFR-31's body lift structure is extended to the double-engine tail nozzle and then filled the double-engine middle gap and formed a tail cone, thus expanding the machine content to load the additional avionics system equipment and fuel for the D type, and integrating the rearview radar into the aircraft without the need to use the TARPS pod. The surface layer partition of the dual-engine intake channel is derived from the two grille exhaust ports above the back of the machine, and can be relied on the surface layer exhaust to generate a certain amount of additional lift and thrust. The main landing gear has been changed from the design of the FFR-31MR back to the design of the FFR-31 basic model. In addition, the design of the fuselage and engine bay are roughly the same as the basic model. Compared with the basic model, the D-type double vertical tail has been changed to the traditional stability surface + rudder design, and the outer reversal angle has been reduced, and a fixed small vertical tail is set up in the middle of the back of the machine.
FFR-31MR/D (left)FFR-31MR (right)
On the airborne sensor, although the D and basic models use basically the same model equipment series, the specific details are different. The D-type radome is smaller and sharper to reduce aerodynamic drag, and the phased array antenna arrays on both sides of the machine head are also reduced by one circle than the basic one. In addition, the TARPS pod has been redesigned, and the "element" phased array radar antenna no longer penetrates the fuselage, and is changed to fold back and store, and the antenna size is also reduced by a circle. In order to compensate for its performance, the TARPS pod was enlarged by a circle and two sets of common-type phased array antenna arrays similar to those on both sides of the front fuselage were added to both sides. In front of the pod is an optical sensor assembly. The TARPS pod is suspended from the rear of the basic three-point support to be supported by a single heavy hanging point in the midline of the belly of the machine, and is driven and retracted by a hydraulic mechanism. During take-off and landing state and normal flight, the hydraulic mechanism contracts, and the pod is suspended between the double-engine cabins on the belly, with the bottom flush with the belly of the cabin and the top flush with the belly of the cabin.
radar is in alert state
Due to its excellent high-altitude high-speed performance, it is considered to be far beyond the capabilities shown by existing JAM fighters. In addition, the highly advanced avionics also have excellent automatic judgment, avoidance, and even the ability to fly and return independently in emergencies. Since its incoming service, the FFR-31MR series has maintained a proud 100% combat survival rate for a considerable period of time. In addition to the inevitable accident losses due to its complex system, it has the lowest attack loss rate among all models, so it is called "Feyali's flawless strongest wings."
Although this is the case, the top-performing FFR-31MR is also costly and has very little output. The original planned production was 87 aircraft, but in the end, the production of only 26 aircraft, including the prototypes. Nevertheless, due to the high performance of FFR-31MR, there is no problem of insufficient quantity in actual operation. Despite this, since the output is too small, the prototypes of each model are also modified to the production standard delivery force after the test flight is completed to collect sufficient quantity.
In the FFR-31MR fleet, the D type mixed with the basic type serial number and production sequence in order to facilitate the budget review and other reasons, so it is difficult to understand the specific output. However, according to the scale of the Aerospace Defense Corps performing corresponding tasks, at least 5-7 aircraft are estimated. Most of the basic FFR-31MR models are used for special combat use, and a few are assigned to system legions or aerospace defense legions; while the D-type snow wind (serial number 29-0113) is used for special combat trial, the rest are used to air defense reconnaissance aviation regiments belonging to the FAF Aerospace Defense Force, performing tasks such as deep breakthrough strategic reconnaissance and anti-satellite interception.
FFR-31/FFR-31MR series fighter jets are well deserved to support the air front for combating JAM, both basic and reconnaissance types play an important role. At the same time, the combat data they accumulated also laid the foundation for the development of FAF's next-generation fighter jets.
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