[Ribbon-Grey]

YR-99 Forneus
- Prototype Future Multirole Fighter -


-YR-99 In Hangar -YR-99 Cockpit View -YR-99 Three Shot View

GAMES FEATURED IN:
Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception
Ace Combat: Joint Assault

OPERATORS:
Aurelian Air Force
Leasath Air Force
Martinez Security

WEAPONS:
Gun / [unknown]
Standard Missiles / AIM-9M Sidewinder
LAGM / AGM-88 HARM (ACX)
SFFS / CBU-Series Fused Sensor Weapon (ACX)
XMAA / AIM-120 AMRAAM (ACX)

STATS:
Speed: 90% (maybe)
Air-to-Air: 50% (maybe)
Air-to-Ground: 65% (maybe)
Mobility: 53% (maybe)
Stability: 55% (maybe)
Defense: 30% (maybe)

OVERVIEW:
The YR-99 is one of the first aircraft, along with the XR-45 and YR-302 which uses the COFFIN system. Besides this, there is no solid information on the Forneus. However, its resemblance is extremely close to Neucom Inc's R-101 Delphinius, seen in Ace Combat 03. Because of this there is a high possibility that this aircraft, like the XR-45 and YR-302 are made by an early Neucom Inc. Its maneuverability is quite exceptional and is a very good-multi-role aircraft.




SOURCE:
Ace Combat X: The Skies of Deception (In-game data)
ACES WEB: YR-99 Forneus* (*Note: Main Screen > ACX > World > Click on the third tab on the side > Click on "YF-99" tab)

ACCREDITATION:
diamond88 Weapons info and Aircraft Stats.
Badger Five Two for the Image of the YR-99.
MasterRevan2006_Garm1 for the cockpit picture and the multiple Screenshots.

*Original Article by Ribbon-Blue*

[JianDaoXiao]

YR-99 Forneus blueprints. Sp 2 paintscheme.
added L.A.F. (Leasath Air Force), change the roundel of Aurelia by the Leasath roundel too.

[Traben]

Done and done.

[JianDaoXiao]

Hey!!!!! I have new Info

The YR- 99 is a prototype Next-gent fighter with high performance.

This plane inherits combat and tactical experiences from the fighters in previous generation, and evolve to a new level.

Lightening designed with special material and hardware, and the "beautiful" shape brings an unexpected high ability for combat.

Area of the wings is decreased by new tech --- Laminar Flow Control Technology. Also called "Breathing Wings" by Developers and Engineers. However,there is no further detail yet.

Stealth ability also been added.
But generally in design, material and electric equipment take the major part.

For pilot's vision, COFFIN System is consisted with 12 cameras and desplay system, it provides infomation outside the cockpit.

It's the positive usage of new technologies, develop cost isn't too high, also makes the mass production possible.

Just fix the grammar and spelling, and add to the article ^^b
ah, the resource: Ace Combat X Official Japanese Page.
Credtis: Japp for the translation from Japanese to English.
If you dont know to Japp, he is a chinese member here XD, but not so active

btw, article edited, updated the format too

[JakeHarlow]

I wonder why they didn't include more planes like this in AC6....

[Antare]

"Area of the wings is decreased by new tech --- Laminar Flow Control Technology. Also called "Breathing Wings" by Developers and Engineers. However,there is no further detail yet."

That answers a question Ive been searching for since ac3 was released. How can the R series have good maneuverability even though they only have a set of elevons?

NASA's F-16XL + R series is the answer. Pipe the thrust of the fan section of the turbofan through the elevons to provide some sort of thrust vectoring.

[Raptor 1 'Dragonheart']

I wonder why they didn't include more planes like this in AC6....

AC6 comes before ACX, so the technology doesn't come until the Aurelia-Leasath war.

[Tazuren]

Replaced Main Image.

[GAG-E]

i saw this and it kinda reminded me of it...

[Traben]

All the cameras are in the wrong places.

What is that from?

[electrosphere11]

what kind of plane is that supposed to be?? It does bear a fair amount of similarity though.

[electrosphere11]

The aft fuselage with the vertical and horizontal stabilizers make it look a little like the F-111

[GAG-E]

All the cameras are in the wrong places.

What is that from?

Im in college and part of an aerospace engineering group, and we got a private tour of edwards air force base in california. as you probably know, edwards is home to a lot of nasa (dryden flight research center) and airforce (the rest of edwards) aircraft testing. The catch is that they're testing so many systems that they need aerospace engineers to help out, so our tour was kind of like a "recruitment" teaser.

that said the security was really tight, you had to be a US citizen first off, but you also had to provide DOB, SSN number, pasport number, address, etc. so that they could do a full background check i'd imagine.

this model was actually in one of the few areas where photography is allowed, but you should have seen what we couldn't take pics of.

harhar

[NekoArk]

Isn't that the North American F-X concept. I remember it was part of some ATF project from ages ago.

[GAG-E]

Isn't that the North American F-X concept. I remember it was part of some ATF project from ages ago.

yeah it is

[AceofAces]

It looks kind of MiG-29-like.

More like that ugly plane from Stealth IMO.