Design and Development of VF- 17

In 2026, the US Army launched the S-VFX (Special Operations Aircraft) program. Instead of bidding as usual, the military directly entrusted Galaxy General Company to develop a new type of fighter aircraft with the code name "YF- 17".

OTEC, the predecessor of General Galaxy, is not a specialized aviation industry company. When it was founded, its task was to repair ASS- 1, which can be said to be an O.T.M technology research institution. Through the study of ASS- 1, OTEC has mastered various advanced O.T.M technologies, and the reorganized General Galaxy Company naturally inherited his legacy. Therefore, the organism developed by GM Galaxy will use the technology that was too advanced at that time, which makes people feel that the experiment tastes heavy but lacks a sense of stability (you can feel this rule when you look at various organisms produced by GM Galaxy). However, because the United forces took a fancy to the technical advantages of General Yinhe, they directly entrusted him to develop VF for special operations.

In fact, the US Army began to pay attention to the importance of special mission aircraft at the end of the First World War. So on 20 1 1, the development plan of local war VF (VSFX plan) was put forward. The products of this plan are VF-3000 and VF-5000, and the second generation main fighter VF-4 is also a quasi-general aircraft focusing on Ethernet air combat. However, the regionality emphasized by local combat aircraft is not developed compared with special tasks, and the implementation of special tasks is still insufficient. Therefore, the unified army began to have the idea of developing special aircraft corresponding to special operational requirements. In 2025, GVF plans to rename VF-X- 12 as YF- 14 (after formal production, the number is VF- 14) and continue to develop it as a special combat aircraft (because it involves military secrets, the declaration number is "YF- 12". But after all, as an alternative transitional aircraft, the military had foreseen that VF- 14 could not fully meet the needs of special tasks, so in the following year (2026), it officially launched the S-VFX special combat aircraft development plan to develop a real special combat aircraft. General Galaxy Company has started the development of the third VF-"YF-17" since its establishment.

In 2035, after nine years of research and development, YF- 17 testing machine finally went to sea for test flight. YF- 17, a VF completely different from other companies in appearance and internal structure, gives people a very strange feeling, but it also forms the style of the general Galaxy itself. YF- 17 VF, as a special attack mission of space warfare, focuses on attacking enemy centers. It has two FF-2 100 thermonuclear explosion turbine engines with a thrust of 55,000 kg and more than 30 attitude adjustment rockets. This deflagration engine, which has become standard since VF- 15, is completely free from the constraints of propellant. The least amount of propellant can generate thrust twice that of VF- 1 1, so it can easily surpass the performance of VF- 1 1 4 in space. YF- 17 embodies the most advanced technology at that time, and its biggest feature is the sharp polyhedron shape, because YF- 17 is the first VF in history to pursue the "invisible" effect. VF- 17 adopts passive stealth mode, and uses polyhedron design and special paint to absorb and scatter radar waves, so that enemy planes cannot easily detect YF- 17 with ordinary radar. Black painting makes it easier for the enemy to see YF- 17 in the vast universe. But this technology is not O.T.M technology, but a complete earth technology, and it has been used for a long time, but the effect is not very satisfactory. Universal Galaxy combined with O.T.M technology finally greatly improves the performance of special coatings, and is also invisible to dimensional detection systems (such as folding reaction detection). In order to ensure stealth, YF- 17 directly designs the external fuel tank in the fuselage, and the weapons are also built-in, which makes the fuselage big and heavy, sacrificing maneuverability and acceleration. The streamlined fuselage will cause great resistance and slow down the speed in the atmosphere, so YF- 17 is not suitable for use in the atmosphere. YF- 17 can also be equipped with fast loading or electronic warfare silo, but in order to remain invisible, it is generally not equipped with fast loading, and it will only be equipped when additional thrust is needed. Another cutting-edge technology on YF- 17 is the virtual cockpit, which is the prototype of the virtual cockpit equipped on YF- 19 (if YF- 19 is a true omnidirectional display, YF- 17 can only be regarded as a GP-03 omnidirectional display). The BDI system does not use a virtual cockpit, but the improved VF-22 still does not use a virtual cockpit, which is somewhat surprising.

In mid-2037, YF- 17 was approved by the United Army, officially named VF- 17 Nightmare, and mass production began, completely replacing the outdated VF- 14, and the attack power and engine power were highly evaluated. However, VF- 17 has high technical content, high cost and poor operability and combat readiness (these shortcomings will not be obvious until 10), so most ships, colonial planets and bases are only equipped with about six to twelve ships. Moreover, as a special warfare VF, these bodies are only allocated to top pilots with excellent combat capability, intelligence, physical strength, judgment, skills and personality, so pilots in all units are proud to use VF- 17. VF- 17, like other VF, has different versions. The number of VF- 17A in initial mass production is small, and the official mass production version is VF- 17D, equipped with FF-2 100X engine. VF- 17C is an improved avionics. VF- 17S is the model assigned to the monitor, equipped with four head lasers, and the thrust is improved. VF- 17T is a two-seat training machine, which is the convention.

In 20041year, the super nova project ended, just like the fate of VF-X- 12, YF-2 1 which failed in bidding changed from AVF to S-VFX. The next year, the improved VF-22 Sturmvogel II became a new generation of special operations aircraft, but it was the same as that of that year. The technical content is too high and the cost is expensive, so few people want to use such an excellent fighter. Relatively speaking, VF- 17, which does not lose the performance of new fighters and has low production and maintenance costs, has become very popular. GM Galaxy and other technical departments put forward the strengthening scheme of VF- 17 in time. For example, the heavy laser module developed by technicians on Macross7 is VF-65438+. When the replacement magazine is mounted on a machine gun, it can emit a powerful laser that can penetrate more than half of the body. However, the heavy-duty laser module has many disadvantages, such as only one lens and occupying the position of the magazine. In 2045, General Galaxy Company added the same needle tip specific pathogen free as AVF to VF- 17. Therefore, VF- 17 can still exist in the army for a long time.

VF- 17 series had a total of 7 18 aircraft of various types before it was discontinued, and only a few of them were deployed on colonial stars and immigrant ships for use by some special forces, mainly because of poor maneuverability, difficult logistics maintenance and high unit price due to the pursuit of high performance; This kind of problem has been solved in VF- 17 1, which reduces the performance and becomes the main configuration of some shipping groups. Although VF- 17 1 simplifies the stealth performance, due to the development of avionics and power technology in the 1950s, the overall level is not even weaker than VF- 17 in the 20s. In the later period, MF fleet even modified VF- 17 1EX derivative aircraft with slightly enhanced firepower.