Aircraft

=FABER-ALBANI=
 * "Pace Attraverso L'artigianato Superiore"

Faber-Albani Specialisti Ingegneria Aeronautica, typically shortened to simply 'Faber-Albani', is the premier airframe manufacturer in all of Ossyra (and likes to think of itself as the world's best), founded in 912 by Alessandro Faber and Giuseppina Albani, at first in order to enter their design into trials for a new turboprop, propellor-driven combat fighter for the Amnisian Self-Defence Militia's air wing. After winning the contract, and building up a reputation for producing exceptional made-to-order propellor aircraft for the rich and famous of Terra in the first half of the last century with their elite team of engineers, the company has expanded over the last ninety-five years into modern combat jets, and has plans to branch out into full-on passenger and cargo civilian airliners. Currently, they are the sole provider of combat and logistical/support aircraft to Lasair's RLAF, and also sell to the Areian RAA and Kolodstal's KBC. Work on 'Project Dreamer', a highly-publicised project to advance the design of the currently-experimental F-0/X Sognatrice long-range intercontinental passenger airliner, is ongoing, with only a single flying example currently in existence. Jet aircraft produced by Faber-Albani utilise a proprietary hybrid engine that switches between turbojet and ramjet configurations depending on the aircraft's speed and altitude using a variable compressor system, allowing them increased engine output of the ramjet without the need for assisted take-off from another aircraft. This system's boosted output and increased fuel efficiency has made them popular with military and mercenary pilots worldwide. In addition, Faber-Albani was also the developer behind the 'Aethrochemical Pilot-Manoeuvrable RADAR', or APMR system. The helmets issued alongside ordered aircraft are linked via aeon chip to the RADAR avionics in the nose cone, which are mounted in the hollow nose on a gyroscopic rotating mount. The Pilot's helmet's HUD features a tracking reticule in it's centre, and the APMR can follow the pilot's line-of-sight as far as 90 degrees from it's default position, allowing the pilot to acquire and lock-on to targets that are not directly 'on the nose' in front of the craft, improving their ability to track and shoot down enemy air units.
 * FA-1/D AIR SUPERIORITY FIGHTER - 'SWORDSMAN'
 * - The fourth revision to the first 'jet' aircraft design Faber-Albani ever produced, the FA-1/D Swordsman was created solely for the role of air superiority; built to seize control of hostile airspaces by establishing dominance over an opposing air force, and also eliminate any subsequent challenge over control of that airspace. They are thus specifically designed to target small, agile targets - other fighters. Compared to the FA-1/C, the 1/D-model Swordsman has two new technologies fitted to it to support it in this role; a pair of non-axisymmetric two-dimensional thrust-vectoring nozzles on it's engine exhausts, and new foreplane canards on either side of the cockpit that allow it to manoeuvre itself in the air with extreme accuracy. It features multiple hard-points on it's wings, and one on it's underbelly that can either be fitted with a heavy anti-ship missile or a reserve fuel tank. Mounted above the APMR in the nose is a 20x102mm caseless revolving cannon, whose barrels are located just in front of the cockpit canopy, and fires in 18-round bursts for the sake of ammunition conservation and the prevention of excessive barrel wear at high-speed and high-G environments. While most Swordsman units - in particular those produced for military use - are single-seater, a twin-seater variant is also available.
 * [ BASIS: McDonnel-Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD Prototype ]


 * FC-2/B CARRIER-BORNE ATTACK FIGHTER - 'ARCHER'
 * - Primarily only sold to the Royal Lasairian Navy due to the craft's specific design differences compared to the Swordsman, the FC-2/B Archer is a twin-seater fighter designed as both an air superiority fighter and a long-range naval interceptor, enabling it to fill all three roles the RLN required of it - an escort attack aircraft, a naval air-defence 'loitering' interceptor, and a maritime search-and-rescue platform - without creating a trio of separate aircraft for each of those needs. The Archer is designed with being launched, commanded and generally operated from aircraft carriers in mind, of which the RLN has two - The LNV Èirigh na Grèine and LNV Fodha na Grèine. In order to be sturdy enough to withstand the abrupt forces of launching from and landing on a pitching shipdeck, the Archer's airframe features a greatly reinforced undercarriage to cope with the additional stresses of naval landings, an arrestor hook, and 'jump strut' nosewheel for catapult-assisted launches. The aircraft's nickname comes from it's variable geometry wings, a predecessor to the technology in the Lancer's 'switchblade' wings, which are said to look like a longbow being drawn back in flight. Their wingsweep can be varied between 20° and 68°, and is automatically controlled by an onboard system which maintains the sweep at the optimum lift-to-drag ratio for it's speed, however pilots can manually override the system if desired. Best of all, when parked, the wings can be 'overswept' back to 75° to overlap the horizontal stabilizers, saving a massive amount of deck space aboard carriers. Thanks to this, each one can fit two dozen Archers belowdecks, totalling forty-eight. One of the OUAC's mercenary units, Cerberus Flight, are also known for using a trio of modified single-seater Archers fitted with stealth technology, but most prefer the Swordsman outside of naval use.
 * [ BASIS: Grumman Aerospace F-14/D 'Super Tomcat' ]


 * FG-5/A GROUND ATTACK AIRCRAFT - 'HALBERDIER'
 * - Specifically designed to attack terrestrial targets, the FG-5/A Halberdier was developed in the 980's in response to the lack of reliable air-to-ground combat technology at the time of it's creation, specifically designed around it's primary weapon system as an airborne tank-killer and close-air support (CAS) provider. The airframe features a large wing surface area, high wing aspect ratio, and large ailerons in order to promote superior manoeuvrability at the comparatively low speed of a CAS mission, and is battle-hardened to an exceptional degree, it's hull able to survive direct hits from armour-piercing and high-explosive projectiles, and has a doubly-redundant hydraulic flight system. The Halberdier's primary weapon is the GAC-1/A 'Partisan', a massive 30x174mm eight-barrelled rotating Gatling-type autocannon that fires armour-piercing shells with a hyperdense depleted-aurite tip at almost 4,000 rounds-per-minute. The Partisan was actually developed first, with the Halberdier built around the weapon, and it features two nose landing gear offset to either side of the nose to make room for the gun's eight-barrelled muzzle. It's engines are installed above and behind the wings, which contributes to a relatively small infrared signature, and their position directs exhaust over the aircraft's tailplanes, further shielding it from detection by infrared, such as that used by homing surface-to-air missiles.
 * [ BASIS: Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II ]


 * FB-7/C HEAVY BOMBER AIRCRAFT - 'BALLISTICIAN'
 * - With only 28 in service worldwide, the FB-7/C Ballistician is one of the rarest airframes in active service that Faber-Albani develops. A supersonic, variable-sweep wing heavy bomber, the Ballistician features wings that will vary their angle depending on the airspeed to help counteract drag while carrying heavy payloads, and features four of the company's hybrid engines arranged at the back of the craft. The craft has set s series of long-distance records since being introduced in 991, and its ability to conduct extended mission lengths to strike anywhere on Terra and return to base without any stops has led to concerns amongst those countries who do not field the aircraft. As such, both Kolodstal and Lasair have both agreed to only possess a maximum of 12 combat-capable, armed variants of the craft at any one time. The other four are an unarmed variant fielded by the RLAF and OUAC in a support role (see below).
 * [ BASIS: Rockwell B-1B Lancer ]


 * EFO-7/D EARLY WARNING AND COMMAND AIRCRAFT - 'TACTICIAN'
 * - A modified created by a collaborative effort between the Lasairian Office of Internal Affairs' research and development division and Faber-Albani, the EFO-7/D Tactician is an AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) and electronic warfare aircraft. Created from modified FB-7/C 'Ballistician' airframes, the Tactician is an airborne radar system designed to detect aircraft, ships, vehicles, missiles, and other incoming projectiles at long ranges and perform command and control of the battlespace in an air engagement by directing other aircraft using a large rotating radome fitted onto the top of the hull, which also contains a variety of broad-spec jamming equipment to deny the same intelligence to it's enemies. They essentially function similar to a mobile, military Air Traffic Controller given command over other forces, and, when used at altitude, the radar on the aircraft allows the operators to detect and track targets at much greater distances than a similar ground-based equipment. While it can be detected by opposing forces, the fact it is airborne and mobile, not to mention it's jammers and extended sensor range, mean a Tactician is much less vulnerable to counter-attacks than any ground radar system. The OUAC fields one, which was part of the deal between Faber-Albani and the OIA and is known as AWACS Full Spectrum, while Lasair possesses three active units - callsigns AWACS Ruby Sun, AWACS Ebon Sun and AWACS Golden Sun, one for each of their three terrestrial air force bases at Calnavidh, Luaithre and Roniagh. Kolodstal also has one on order that is currently under construction at Faber-Albani's plant just outside the Amnisian city limits, near the border with the Silverlands.
 * [ BASIS: Rockwell B-1B Lancer, Boeing E-767 AEW/C ]


 * FM-9/A ADVANCED MULTIROLE FIGHTER - 'LANCER'
 * - The most modern of Faber-Albani's air designs, barring of course those still in the prototype stage, the FM-9/A Lancer is a top-of-the-line multirole strike fighter and interceptor, capable of reach almost 2,500 kilometres per hour in a straight line. The Lancer's variable-geometry wings and tail control surfaces allow it to transition between fighter combat and VTOL hovering as necessary, and it's on-board RCS (reaction control system) thrusters mounted on the four corners of it's belly surface allow it to strafe suddenly in a chosen direction to dodge incoming fire in fighter configuration, and keep the craft aloft in VTOL configuration. Its armaments include a pair of the 20x102mm cannons mounted in the Swordsman and Archer, mounted at either side of the cockpit, who alternate their 'bursts' to allow the craft to essentially fire them fully-automatically, and two small weapons bays rather than wing-mounted pylons, capable of carrying multiple varieties of air-to-air missiles, air-to-surface missiles, and various bomblet dispensers, launched from downwards-sliding retractable holders located on the undersides of each intake, which deploy when the craft has a lock. The engines feed into two tri-dimensional thrust-vectoring nozzles, granting the Lancer as much manoeuvrability as it's two smaller cousins in spite of weighing almost 150% as much as a Swordsman when fully-loaded. Like the Swordsman, the Lancer ha two variants; one with a single seat, and one that seats a crew of two - a pilot and a WSO.
 * [ BASIS: EASA X-02/A Wyvern (Fictional) ]


 * FS-9/B ADVANCED MULTIROLE/STRIKE FIGHTER - 'STRIKE LANCER'
 * - A specialised variant of the Lancer developed first as part of Project: HEAVENSPEAR for use by the 16th Long-Range Strategic Assault Squadron 'Scarlet' before later being made available for general military purchase only, the FS-9/B Strike Lancer is a modified and advanced variant of the standard Lancer airframe. At a glance, the Strike Lancer appears almost identical to the base model, but what it lacks in obvious outward differences, it makes up for with numerous internal modifications. The new airframe uses a redesigned version of the proprietary hybrid jet engines on other Faber-Albani craft with heat-resistant magnesium alloys to enhance thrust and fuel efficiency, boosting the craft's maximum air-speed to a whopping 3,063 kilometres per hour, which was compensated for by new, expanded air intakes, with the exhaust nozzles changed to a saw-tooth design to lower the plane's infrared signature and make it quieter. A third weapon bay separate from the two missile bays was also added to the bottom of the frame, capable of loading either a next-generation heavy anti-ship missile, a reserve fuel tank that can then be pulled up into the hull and concealed beneath the Strike Lancer's armour, or one of Scarlert Squadron's unique XIMB-9 'Tinderbox' gas-dispersing, meson-activated munitions. This bay is so well-designed and reinforced that there are even reports of a mercenary-owned, standard FM-9/A Lancer, albeit a heavily-customised one, that has been fitted with the tertiary weapons bay at the request (and substantial pay-out) of it's pilot, in order to carry a PIL ALIA-98 anti-ship railgun underslung, a weapon typically mounted on warships to intercept and destroy incoming projectiles like anti-naval missiles and torpedoes. These reports, however, are unconfirmed and unverified.
 * [ BASIS: EASA X-02/S Strike Wyvern (Fictional) ]

=AKB-LUGOSI=
 * "Будущее среди облаков."

One of the three companies under the larger EMK (Единый Механический Концерн) mechanical manufacturing concern, Lugosi Aviation Design Bureau (Авиационное Конструкторское бюро Лугоши) was created in 980 in response to the increasing desire for jet aircraft by the Terra's various air forces as propeller combat aircraft fell from use. Originally created with the intention of serving as the sole provider for Kolodstal's air force, the KBS (Колодсталь Воздушные Силы), they have since branched out into the general market, and the significant durability of their airframes, allowing them to outlast and outgun their opponents, has made them exceedingly popular in mercenary circles, especially those who live and work in the comparatively-harsher environs of the La Mescan continent - Areia's air force, the RAA (Regimiento de Aviacion de Areia), also buys from Lugosi almost-exclusively - the only non-Lugosi aircraft they use is Faber-Albani's 'Lancer' multirole, adopted before the creation of Lugosi's own multirole design. The Bureau was created by a combination of the funds and resources of the other three companies under the larger Concern, initially in order to have an official channel through which to acquire and hire freelance aviation designer Ferenc Belovich Lugosi, who'd presented several jet designs to them in an effort to convince them there was a growing market in combat aviation worth investing in. The man was, and is, an aviation-design savant, widely considered one of the best in the world on an individual level, and all four of the Bureau's current commercially-available aircraft are all his designs. As well as his aircraft, Lugosi was also the inventor of the concept of using on-board, broad-spectrum flares to disrupt and redirect heat-seeking munitions, a technique now used worldwide.
 * Lu-11 AIR SUPERIORITY FIGHTER - 'VETER-B'
 * - The first Lugosi aircraft created in 982, designed as a superior alternative to the then-current FA-1/B second-gen Swordsman, was the Lu-03 'Veter' air superiority fighter. This frame is now, itself, on it's second iteration; the Lu-11 'Veter-B', designed in 991. The first model was a more standard-fare jet combat aircraft, but the Veter-B was, for it's time a much more experimental design, one that was initially met with concerns from Lugosi's superiors due to the for-the-time radical choices made in the redesign of the airframe. However, EMK had grown by then to trust that Lugosi knew what he was doing from the KBS's adoration of the Lu-03, and approved the project. Compared to the Lu-03, the Lu-11 featured two brand-new concepts for aircarft - swivelling 'thrust-vetroing' nozzles on it's engines to direct the aircraft's thrust for better steering, and foreplane canards that improved manoeuvrability and stability. The combination of manoeuvre-enhancing technologies combined to create a jet capable of some incredible feats of evasion at low pre-stall speeds - test pilot Viktor Pugachev famously filpped the aircraft's nose vertical and purposely stalled pointing straight up to let an 'agressor' training unit fly right by him in pursuit testing, using vectoring to return to level flight without dropping altitude. The Lu-03 had been a good opening offering, but it was the Lu-11's innovative design that properly put AKB-Lugosi on the map, and was immediately ordered in enough numbers to replace every Lu-03 in KBS service after testing concluded. Today, it serves as the primary aircraft fielded by both the KBS and the RAA, and it's public knowledge, though never officially confirmed, to be the reason Faber-Albani added canards to the Mk. D revision of the Swordsman, to try and keep up.
 * [ BASIS: Sukhoi Su-37 'Terminator' (Lu-03 'Veter-A' based on Su-27 'Flanker-A') ]


 * Lu-26 SUPERMANOEUVRABILITY TESTBED FIGHTER 'BURYA'
 * - A design that almost never got past the blueprint stage, the Lu-26 'Burya' is utilised in limited numbers around the world, an instantly recognisable sight on account of it's unique wing design. Never originally designed for combat, the Lu-26 began life as a one-off technology testbed, now known as the Lu/X-26 Prototype personally piloted by Ferenc Lugosi himself to put new ideas through their paces in the air, preferring partical tests to those conducted in a lab or a wind tunnel. It's most striking feature - which caught front-page news when observers spotted it flying over Leasagrad in southern Kolodstal - is it's wings, which sweep forwards rather than backwards. A substantial part of the lift generated by these unique wings occurs at the inner portion of the wingspan, unrestricted by wingtip stall, and the lift-induced wingtip vortex generation is, thus, reduced. The ailerons - the wing's control surfaces - remain effective at the highest angles of attack, and controllability of the aircraft is retained even in the event of airflow separating from the remainder of the wings' surface. This potential for low-speed supermanoeuvrability caught the eye of several ace pilots worldwide, and as many as a dozen have been made-to-order since fitted with internalised weapons bays. Buryas are used by several Hunters, as well as a few military units, including the 1st Asymmetrical Action Squadron 'Hrad' of the KBS, who flew the Burya before changing to the Lu-37 Uragan this year, and Fallon 'Kestrel' Kennedy, of the OUAC's Chimera Squadron, though it's most famous user is the Air Commodore of the RAA, and highest-ranking officer in a flight role, the famous 'Silver Falcon', Efraín Colomer. The Lu/X-26 prototype is still in use today, still flown by Ferenc personally, though what is it currently being used to test remains highly classified. It was last sighted in air tests alongside the first Uragan to roll off the line back in January 1007.
 * [ BASIS: Sukhoi Su-47 'Berkut' ]


 * Lu-29 CARRIER-BORNE ATTACK FIGHTER - 'SHKVAL'
 * - A carrier-based aircraft developed using the old Lu-03 Veter-A as a base, the Lu-29 'Shkval' was designed to compete against Faber-Albani's FC-2/A Archer in trials by the Royal Lasairian Navy to create the aircraft that would be used aboard their two then-new aircraft carriers. Redesigned so comprehensively that it shared only aesthetic similarities with the first-gen Veter-A, it features a strengthened undercarriage and structure, folding wings and collapsible stabilators, all for carrier operations, newer turbofan engines, a folding in-flight refuelling probe, and the addition of new foreplane canards, identical to those on the slightly-larger Veter-B. It lost out to the Archer due to the higher cost-per-unit and the Archer having Faber-Albani's proprietary Aetherochemical Pilot-Manoeuvrable RADAR system, but it gained a lot of attention in the mercenarial community, who saw immediate potential in the sheer durability of the hull, and it's maximum take-off weight allowing for a wider variety of munitions to be stocked and fielded. Anti-piracy security contractors, in particular, found it's ability to carry two of the current-gen anti-ship cruise missiles, one under each wing, to be invaluable, as most other aircraft can only carry one, underslung, their wings unable to take the payload. As such, despite being fielded by no military units, and not a single aircraft carrier, the Shkval still flies Terra's skies in spite of that, a testament to Lugosi's craftsmanship.
 * [ BASIS: Sukhoi Su-33 'Flanker-D' ]


 * Lu-37 ADVANCED AIR-DOMINANACE MULTIROLE FIGHTER - 'URAGAN'
 * - A brand-new aircraft made to order for the KBS's special asymmetrical warfare team, Hrad Squadron, the Lu-37 'Uragan' is one of the newest, and most advanced, aircraft in existence, and only five are in service worldwide since their introduction in Januray 1007 - Hrad's four, and one mercenary unit, which owns a single airframe (bought at a nigh-ruinously expensive price tag for an individual to have to fork over, but quoted to be 'worth every Bevi'). The Uragan is a twin-engine stealth fighter with a delta wing configuration, whose twin high-output turbofan engines achieve thrust vectoring through special two-dimensional rudders mounted around the exhaust nozzles. It's hull features porous ceramics and electromagnetic wave-absorbing alloys, which are more light and durable than conventional stealth coatings, and enemy radar systems are therefore only able to detect it within a certain radius, wherein it becomes too close to miss any object of it's size, and by that point, it may already be too late; the aircraft has a pair of high-RPM 29mm automatic cannons, and internal weapon bays mounted on the top side of the aircraft, containing a proprietary missile developed by another company in EMK, the 'Volchyastaya' Missile Launcher and it's associated 'Volk' All-Direction Multipurpose Missiles, which can fire in front of, behind, and even directly above the aircraft, allowing it a variety of unique attack angles few other jets can hope to match - in training, Hrad's flight leader successfully hit a dummy ground target with the ADMM system while flying the craft upside-down mid-roll, barraging it with a dozen Volk missiles at once while simultaneously managing to remain above Mach 1 for the whole manoeuvre, stunning even the Lugosi R&D team sent to oversee the tests. The lone mercenary user thus far is the man known as the famous 'Clockwork Commodore', Michele 'Midday' Deveraux.
 * [ BASIS: Albastu-Electrice CFA-44 'Nosferatu' (Fictional) ]

=IMPERIAL AIR FACTORY= Created in 991 by the main body of Yue Machina to produce a versatile 'omnirole' aircraft for the Yue Imperial Air Force, the Yue Machina Imperial Air Factory weave advanced aurite technology into their airframes, both in the weapons and propulsion departments, designed to protect the skies above formations of Arms Frames in a hypothetical land-and-air combined battle doctrine. As well as their obvious use by the Yue Imperial Air Force, the YJ1-A and -B are also available for export, with the YJ1-B used by the Regimento de Aviacion de Areia in place of heavier bombers, and many mercenary units making extensive use of the YJ1-A due to it's price and availability; a highly-modified electronic warfare variant is even in use with one of the OUAC's defence squadrons. The YJ2-A, on the other hand, contains proprietary technologies that are top-secret and kept under close imperial military guard.
 * YJ1-A MULTIROLE AERIAL WARFARE AIRCRAFT - 'LAOHU'
 * - The primary aircraft design that the Imperial Air Factory was first created to develop and manufacture, the YJ1-A 'Lǎohǔ' ('老虎', meaning 'Tiger') is a a single-engine 'omnirole' fighter aircraft originally to serve primarily as an air superiority day fighter, before evolving into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft as it's creators began receiving funding from Yue Machina directly. It features a frameless 'bubble'-style canopy for better visibility, side-mounted control stick to ease control while maneuvering in high Gs, an ejection seat reclined 20 degrees from vertical to reduce the effect of G-forces on the pilot, and an advanced 'fly-by-wire' flight control system that interprets the pilot's control inputs as a desired outcome, then calculates the control surface positions required to achieve that outcome; this results in various combinations of rudder, elevator, aileron, flaps and engine controls such that the pilot may not be fully aware of all the control outputs acting to effect the outcome, only that the aircraft is reacting as expected. With nearly 600 units in use worldwide, half of which belong directly to the YIAF, it is currently the world's most numerous fixed-wing aircraft. It's under-wing pylons can mount air-to-air missiles for dogfighting, rocket pods for ground attack runs, and even underwing fuel-pods to refuel other planes in flight, allowing for Lǎohǔs to take short flights to refuel other friendlies flying over their base then quickly land again without the passing units needing to land and pause their journey.
 * [ BASIS: Mitsubishi F-2A 'Viper Zero' (YJ1-CHORUS 'Singing Tiger' based on the F2-A SUPER KAI 'Viper Zero-SK' ) ]


 * YJ1-B MULTIROLE GROUND WARFARE AIRCRAFT - 'MENGHU'
 * - Description to be added ASAP
 * [ BASIS: General Dynamics F-16XL 'Strike Falcon' Prototype ]


 * YJ2-A NEXT-GENERATION AIR SUPERIORITY FIGHTER - 'DÒULÓNG'
 * - Description to be added ASAP
 * [ BASIS: Kawamori ASF-X 'Shinden II' (Fictional) ]