[OOC] Across Broken Skies [Ace Combat inspired RP]

[Sauron The Dark Lord]

It's still this.

[Damo021]

Silverwind Blade said
Well, it's where I got all the info for the OP from, as it's just so convenient.

Indeed it is, just by doing a quick search for an upgraded engine for the Draken I found a F100-PW-229 EEP (Engine Enhancement Package)

[Slypheed]

Silverwind Blade said
Yay, team girl-pilot GO!

I'm bringing in sistas!
(Problem is, Im gonna feel so out of place with the character pics o 3o But here's my combined CS anyway:

Character Sheet #1 (Pilot)

Name: Adriana Tessaro

Callsign: Spectre

Age: 29

Nationality: Italian

Appearance

Combined Bio (As they pretty much did everything together): Adriana and Rikke were born two years apart, but acted like they were two minutes apart. Their family has never really tried to make them act as individuals, as they somehow did just a fine when they do things together, sometimes doing things better when together. As they got older, the became inseparable, usually getting very depressed when they had to do things separately, yet they never dressed the same. Adriana took on a more tomboyish look while Rikke took a more professional look. Yet they still did other things together, like how they started smoking, but they never smoked heavily, always taking up to two weeks to finish their own packs.

When Rikke turned 19, she started to become more outgoing, while when Adriana turned 19, she started to become shyer. But they both entered military service at the same time. Adriana being 20, Rikke being 22. They completed training, and flew under the Italian Air Force insignia for a year before going over to the UN and flying under many countries insignias for 7 more years before joining Avalon's Excalibur squadron.

Service Record: 8 Years total; 1 Year in the Italian Air Force, 7 years going between UN Air Forces

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Character Sheet #2 (WSO)

Name: Rikke Tessaro

Callsign: Banshee

Age: 31

Nationality: Italian

Appearance:


Service Record: 8 Years total; 1 Year in the Italian Air Force, 7 years going between UN Air Forces

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Aircraft Details

Name of Aircraft: F-111F Aardvark (The Sisters call it "Wraith")

Profile Link: F-111F Aardvark

Modifications:

-Standard Avalon Mods

-Glass Cockpit

-Updated stores management systems

-Navalized configuration.

-Light-weight materials/composites

Personal Colour Scheme: Matte Grey. Nose Art

Weapon Systems:
Internal Cannon (Seldom Fitted as it takes up the weapons bay):
1x 20mm M61 Vulcan 6-Barreled Gatling cannon (x500 rounds)

Possible Munitions for Hardpoints/Attach Points
(9 total hardpoints, 8 under-wing, and 1 under-fuselage between engines. +2 Attact points in Weapons bay):

- Free-Fall General Purpose bombs

- A wide array of Cluster Bombs

- BLU-109 Hardened penetration bomb

- Laser-guided bombs

- BLU-107 Durandal Runway-cratering bombs

- GBU-15 Electro optical bomb

- AGM-130

-Any aircraft launched Anti-Ship Missiles

-AIM-54 Pheonix

[Driving Park]

Beginning work on my CS. Seems we're becoming close to equal with male and female pilots. Any preference? I can go either way.

[RPCWhite]

Will do my last CS tonight not enough time to do it right now so reserving that spot for him

[Sauron The Dark Lord]

Russian women best women.

[Damo021]

well my character is female, so not sure on the equal numbers front there now, the CS's are flying in so to speak.

[Driving Park]

With current posted sheets, we have 4 males and 3 females (2 in one plane).

I was looking through the plane list and saw the MiG-25 Foxbat. One of my favorite planes so I'll be using that. Plus, we don't have an interceptor yet.

[RPCWhite]

Well my two guys (Still need one) will prolly be air to air and fill the role of Air coverage for all ground attacks

[Sauron The Dark Lord]

This is interesting.

[Rhona W]

Driving Park said
Beginning work on my CS. Seems we're becoming close to equal with male and female pilots. Any preference? I can go either way.

It's fine with whichever you'd like to do - male or female is fine.

Slyp, your characters are fine. And their pictures are as well, photo's aren't required, it's just that I chose to use one as it was easier to find a suitable character picture.
Also, did you consider an F-111B? that was the naval variant that was never produced. Good job otherwise though, I love the F-111 and it's cool to have one in the unit. And I'll add your sheet to the OP ASAP.

RPCWhite said
Will do my last CS tonight not enough time to do it right now so reserving that spot for him

You don't need to completely repost it, you can just edit the existing one. There's literally only the single error on your sheet that really needs resolving, along with a little more detail that could use being added to bring it up to scratch with the others.

[Damo021]

Driving Park said
With current posted sheets, we have 4 males and 3 females (2 in one plane).I was looking through the plane list and saw the MiG-25 Foxbat. One of my favorite planes so I'll be using that. Plus, we don't have an interceptor yet.

Sadly my sheet is not up yet either lol. but it's getting there

[Slypheed]

Silverwind Blade said
It's fine with whichever you'd like to do - male or female is fine. Slyp, your characters are fine. And their pictures are as well, photo's aren't required, it's just that I chose to use one as it was easier to find a suitable character picture. Also, did you consider an F-111B? that was the naval variant that was never produced. Good job otherwise though, I love the F-111 and it's cool to have one in the unit. And I'll add your sheet to the OP ASAP.

I did, but come to think of it, I feel like changing the aircraft model slightly to the F-111F. If that's ok with you, its a more modernized variant, and comes with FLIR and a laser designation system already on board. Plus the B had a lot of problems during its development, leading it to be outclassed by the Tomcat during its production. (Plus the B was meant to be a anti-bomber craft, I want a ground attacker with slight air-to-air capabilities.:P)

[Rafale]

Alright, so because I'm a strange person, I ended up starting with the plane then moving onto the character. I'll just post the plane here for now so I can get opinions on it. I spent at least four hours Wiki-binging in order to get information about it and in the end, I'm pretty happy with it;

Aircraft Details
The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, twinjet, two-seat, variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy's Naval Fighter Experimental (VFX) program following the collapse of the F-111B project. The F-14 was the first of the American teen-series fighters which were designed incorporating the experience of air combat against MiG fighters during the Vietnam War.

The F-14D+ flown by Nathan is a huge step forward over his F-14A that he flew before, modernizing it to the F-14D standard along with some bonuses and room for further upgrades.
Name of Aircraft: F-14D+

Profile Link:
Wikipedia

Modifications:
The F-14A is already a very capable aircraft, so the D+ variation, modified from captured Iranian F-14A’s, is quite spartan when it comes to upgrades, not changing radically from the F-14D. Due to the low amount of time given to the D+ program, not much has changed in terms of the plane’s body and it still pales somewhat in comparison to the incredible ideas once proposed and subsequently shot down by Dick Cheney. Avalon does however promise upgrades in the form of the future once the ASF-14 Upgrade Package has been completed and pushed out to pilots. The upgrades made from the Iranian F-14A’s to bring it up to the F-14D standard with a few upgrades are as follows…

The infamous TF30 has been switched out for a General Electric F110, this time using a special derivative called the GE-432, a hybrid of the older GE-400 used on the F-14B and F-14D and the newer GE-132 fitted on F-16E/F Desert Falcon fighters, producing 144.6 kN of thrust with afterburners, creating better speed characteristics and supercruise capability at speeds of Mach 1.4. Thrust vectoring nozzles are being considered for the ASF-14 Upgrade Package.

An updated version of the ALR-67 Radar Homing and Warning (RHAW) system has been added, like the original F-14B.

Various upgrades were made to extend airframe life, like the Bombcat.

New digital avionics systems highly upgraded from the F-14D including a glass cockpit and replacing the AWG-9 radar with an AN/APG-71 radar with many upgrades made to eliminate the need to datalink with at least one more F-14D in order to operate the system at its maximum range (740 km instead of 370 km as was the limit on the original F-14D’s)

Airborne Self Protection Jammer (ASPJ), Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS), SJU-17(V) Naval Aircrew Common Ejection Seats (NACES) and IRST pods have also been added.

The upgrade to the F-14D’s computer software to allow AIM-120 AMRAAM missile capability that was originally cancelled has also been brought through, along with a few other upgrades.

ROVER III support.

Along with a few upgrades stemming from the Tomcat Quick Strike concept…

A built in proprietary high-end navigation and targeting suite based on the USAF’s LANTIRN system was added. Where? We’ll get to that in a moment.

Upgraded ground attack and air-to-air modes for the APG-71 radar and the ability to carry AGM-84 SLAM, Harpoon Block II, AGM-88 HARM, AGM-65 Maverick and AGM-154 JSOW.

Upgrades to the radar including modes for synthetic aperture (SAR) and Doppler Beam Sharpening, allow for accurate ground mapping. This allows the radar to create high quality images of navigation waypoints and targets.

More attach points for weapons were added, and pylons were strengthened to carry heavier weapons.

Cockpit has been improved with the addition of a moving map display, a new HUD, compatible with infrared imagery from the FLIR, and head down FLIR displays.

Along with what could be considered the most radical upgrade…

The F-14D+ is now available as a single-seat plane, with the space once occupied by the WSO seat being used for avionics and the navigation and targeting suite. While the pilot’s cockpit hasn’t received many changes from the F-14D to the D+, there is also the equipment used by the WSO now featured in the front seat, but most of the original roles of the WSO are now automated, allowing for easy conversion from classic two seater F-14’s to the Avalon modifications.

Personal Colour Scheme:
Splinter camo based on IRIAF camo in subdued grey colors with UNF markings with positions and other parts based on US Navy markings.

Weapon Systems:
Internal cannon:
Single 20 mm M61A2 with 675 rounds

Ten hardpoints (6 under fuselage, 2 under nacelles and 2 on wing gloves) for the following weapons and equipment:

AIM-9 Sidewinder short-range IR air-to-air missile.

AIM-7 Sparrow medium-range SAAM

AIM-120 AMRAAM medium-range active radar air-to-air missile

AIM-54 Phoenix long-range air-to-air missile

AGM-65 Maverick air-to-surface missile

AGM-84 SLAM & SLAM-ER long-range precision cruise missile

AGM-88 HARM air-to-surface anti-radiation missile

AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile

AGM-154 JSOW Glide bomb

JDAM-series GPS-guided bombs

Paveway-series LGB

Mark 80 series GPB

CBU cluster bomb units (guided and unguided)

2x 267 US gal (1,010 l; 222 imp gal) drop tanks for extended range/loitering time

Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance Pod System (TARPS)

Single AACMI Pod for training

[Rafale]

Also, if no one can tell from the hints I threw in there, I'm playing an Iranian pilot who defected to the UN after being prosecuted for his faith, abandoning his family and friends.

[Sauron The Dark Lord]

And I'm a potato.

[nautilusmp]

Oh, you guys left me in the dust while I was sleeping.

[Rhona W]

Driving Park said
With current posted sheets, we have 4 males and 3 females (2 in one plane).I was looking through the plane list and saw the MiG-25 Foxbat. One of my favorite planes so I'll be using that. Plus, we don't have an interceptor yet.

Glad you're keen to use it - I wasn't sure about including it to begin with as I was a bit dubious that navalizing it would be plausible, but eh, why the heck not.

Slypheed said
I did, but come to think of it, I feel like changing the aircraft model slightly to the F-111F. If that's ok with you, its a more modernized variant, and comes with FLIR and a laser designation system already on board. Plus the B had a lot of problems during its development, leading it to be outclassed by the Tomcat during its production. (Plus the B was meant to be a anti-bomber craft, I want a ground attacker with slight air-to-air capabilities.:P)

Sure, I have no worries with you taking an F-111F at all. Having the more modernized variant makes sense to me, especially with the areas you'd like to focus on as well. Sounds like a good way to take it, and I look forward to seeing your updates!

Rafale said
Alright, so because I'm a strange person, I ended up starting with the plane then moving onto the character. I'll just post the plane here for now so I can get opinions on it.

It all looks good to me, man! And the idea of an Iranian defector makes perfect sense too. Look forward to seeing more!

[Sauron The Dark Lord]

Here I am, being all non-serious and I get no notice. I feel so unappreciated.
Lel, jk.

[RPCWhite]

What was wrong with my CS other than not enough detail? (I went back and fixed the missiles one it)