[Ribbon-Grey]

XR-45 Cariburn
-Radical FSW Fighter-



Cariburn Photo A - Cariburn Photo B - Cariburn Photo C - Cariburn Photo D - Cariburn Photo E - Cariburn Picture F
Caribrun Cockpit View

GAMES FEATURED IN:
Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception
Ace Combat Xi: Skies of Intrusion

OPERATORS:
Aurelian Air Force
Leasath Air Force

WEAPONS:
Gun / two [unknown]
Standard Missiles / AIM-9M Sidewinder
QAAM / AIM-9X Sidewinder
RCL / [unknown]
XLAA / [unknown]

OVERVIEW:
The XR-45 Cariburn's Air Frame incorporates multiple technologies and designs from countries outside of the Leasath-Aurelia area. Exactly how they got it is not known and highly classified. It can operate at Ultra High Altitudes, making it an extraordinary interceptor and dogfighter. The XR-45 Cockpit is oddly structured, but heavily reinforced. It is equipped with version of the COFFIN System, similar to that of the version 3 COFFIN. Its weapons are primarily Air-to-Air based, further pursuing its role a pure Air Combat machine. The Cariburn uses two extremely powerful engines in cooperation with its strengthened Forward Swept Wings, a vertical canard which is located beneath it, an extremely large Air Intake and two dimensional thrust vectoring to make it one of the most, if not the most, maneuverable aircraft ever made.


SOURCES:
Ace Combat X: The Skies of Deception (In-game data)
Namco-ch.net: XR-45 Cariburn

*Original Article by Ribbon-Blue*

[JianDaoXiao]

XR-45 Cariburn blueprints, Aurelia ps

[El Tweako]

The XR-45 has become my personal favorite in ACX (aside from the Tomcat).

[Traben]

I understand that the YSF simulators can determine if a certain airframe is flyable. Does the XR-45 pass this test? It seems like a radical and-then-some design.

[Heinkel]

No way YSF can determine that.

[Scarface tfs]

No way YSF can determine that.

I agree. I have an R-103 in YSF and it flies fine. Doesn't go mach 4 though.

Sorry off topic.

[Tazuren]

The only real way to see if a plane is flyable is to build a model of it and put it in a wind tunnel.

[Heinkel]

A simpler option would be to build it on X-plane, which DOES determine if a plane is aerodynamically possible.

[Tazuren]

*goes to look up X-Plane on Wikipedia*

I guess what you say is true. Though since I have no experiance with the X-Plane program, I cannot fully debate it with you.

[JianDaoXiao]

http://electrosphere.info/index.php?s=&...ost&p=17879
the same

XR-45 is made by international aviation companies. It's an experimental Next-gent aircraft.
There is no info about how it transfered to Aurellia, but most comments indicated the plane is used for collecting combat data.

In this era, COFFIN System become the mainstream.
XR-45's development is base on this technology, added 2D vector thrust and ventral fins in order to improve dogfight ability.

Two High output engines insure the thrust, forward-swept wing and big elevation of the nose improve flight performance,
and make it more maneuverable than other aircrafts in the same generation.

Upper air operational capacity is extremely high, the synthesis looked, has the strong interceptor aircraft characteristic.

Needs to operate the precision quite is high, therefore difficult to operate, but can display the invincible performance actually in dogfight.

Source: Ace Combat X Official Japanes Page
Credits: Japp for the Translation

btw, edit made, updated the format too.

[Heinkel]

Companies? that thing was built by one company, Neucom

[Ribbon-Blue]

That is true, but remember that Neucom Inc. is also just a large conglomerate of various companies. Neucom Inc. may not have been in existance, but companies which may have joined it later or were eventually a large part of it could have designed this aircraft.

There is also the 'R' designation in the Cariburn's designation. Neucom Inc. is the only company/aircraft manufactuer to use the 'R' designation in their aircraft, as it stands for "Radical". Do note that the XR-900 Gelopelia also shares the same designation. We can also not look past the fact that this aircraft does look similar to other Neucom designs we see later in 2045.

[Heinkel]

So it hard to say it develop by Neucom, and you know the First COFFIN SYSTEM ? who made it ?

It isn't, judging by both the R designation and the shape.

[Silber 6]

Actually, I think that COFFIN was built by another corporation outside of the 2 conglomerates and in this, GR and Neu was able to modify it for their own purposes.

[Ribbon-Blue]

If we're going by the idea that the ADF-01 or the ADF-01F was the first aircraft to deploy COFFIN, Grunder definately had a hand in it, if they didn't just make it all themselves.

[Traben]

In another thread, I'd made an argument that the XB-0 was rushed and underdeveloped... now I'm thinking that COFFIN was their main priority once Excalibur was operational.

[Ribbon-Blue]

If that is the case, then Project Pendragon was way ahead of its time. Then again, we don't know what else come out of Pendragon besides, Burst Missiles, TLS, Excalibur, Hresvelgr, Morgan, V2, Avalon... and... I think I missed something...