[lincer556]

The Airborne Fortress
- The first Ace Combat Super Weapon -


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WEAPON INFORMATION:
Purpose: Heavy Long-Range Air Assault Aircraft
Manufacturer(s): Unknown
Date Started: Unknown
Date Completed: Unknown
Date Destroyed: Unknown

Armaments: Heavy Machine Guns, Missile Launchers, It was capable to carry on and launch in midair a small unit of fighter jets.
Firing Range: Unknown
Energy Source: Unknown
Speed: Unknown
Propulsion:Unknown

Height: Unknown
Width: Unknown
Length: N/A
Weight: N/A

OVERVIEW:
The Flying Fortress was the ultimate, top-secret and well-hidden super-weapon of the terrorist force that waged out war against a small country somewhere on the mid 90s. The specs of this gigantic aircraft were never revealed, however, it is known that it had a considerable firepower. Armed with heavy and highly accurate anti-air guns and missile launchers, the Fortress had also the ability to carry on and launch in midair a small unit of fighter aircraft's, this super-plane truly deserved its nickname of "The Flying Fortress".

Just when the mercenary aces force managed to take over the terrorist's headquarters, military Intelligence discovered the existence of the Flying Fortress, however, it was too late to try to stop it on ground. The Fortress was already on its way to launch a massive assault to obliterate the capital city. The mercenary aces scrambled to intercept it before it reached its target. They reached it over territorial waters, and a fierce air battle erupted between the aces, the fortress and the enemy aces that were escorting the gigantic aircraft.

In the end, after a hard, fierce dogfight, the mercenary aces prevailed, and the Flying Fortress, along with the terrorist's last forces, fell in flames to the ocean.


SOURCES:
Air Combat (the game itself)

CREDITS:
Antare for the pictures

[JianDaoXiao]

Airborne Fortress model

[PhantomPhanatic]

Pics be mine....

As for the spawning enemies.....they are always F-22s. Quite nasty to deal with too on harder difficulties since you have the Fortress spamming missiles at you at the same time as well. Hence the missile warning on one of the shots I took, lol.

[Ribbon-Grey]

JDX, don't double post. There is an edit button, use it for a reason.

[kuroi tsubasa]

What bothers me about this accursed thing is that you could only disable it's missile launchers and AA guns. Also, when you're facing this thing on Hard mode, you're pretty much stuck to doing hit and run tactics against it.

[Vanguard One]

I guess you never really do forget your first...

It ended up here, so it must be pretty important. I wouldn't know; I haven't played anything before AC4 yet.

[Scarface tfs]

Is it possible it has C.O.F.F.I.N, Or is that my idea? Because I certainly can't see any windows.

[JianDaoXiao]

Is it possible it has C.O.F.F.I.N, Or is that my idea? Because I certainly can't see any windows.

lol XD
i dont think so, because AC1 is low cuality to see any window. And, the size of the Airborne Fortress is so big, and the windows maybe looks microscopick XD

[Scarface tfs]

lol XD
i dont think so, because AC1 is low cuality to see any window.

Thats what I thought for a second.........Unless its a robot. XD

[Antare]

My guess is that the light colored area on top of the fuselage is the cockpit. They prolly had some issues re: making things look like a cockpit, hell even the fighters you fly in have some shade of blue for a cockpit.

[EstovakianHarrierPlus]

I fixed the grammar.

[Protostealth]

I've read in the Internet that Namco stated that the Airborne Fortress is actually a smaller, more versatile version of the XB-0 Hresvelgr. Can anyone please confirm?

[Broth3r]

Protostealth, on 26 August 2011 - 11:50 PM, said:

I've read in the Internet that Namco stated that the Airborne Fortress is actually a smaller, more versatile version of the XB-0 Hresvelgr. Can anyone please confirm?

Um, where in the internet?
Because if it was on a certain YouTube comment, that might have been me. Ionno where I heard it from back then, but I'm pretty sure it was bull.

[Protostealth]

Look for broth3rshooter.

[Midsummersnow]

Protostealth, on 26 August 2011 - 11:50 PM, said:

I've read in the Internet that Namco stated that the Airborne Fortress is actually a smaller, more versatile version of the XB-0 Hresvelgr. Can anyone please confirm?

The ABF is way larger than the XB-0, at least 2x possibly 3x the size of the XB-0. But its hard to tell due to the graphic limitations of the PSX. If someone could extract the ABF model from the game data that might help.

[viperzerof-2]

I have but I can only open one model at a time with the tools I have and their are thousands of models. if I could scroll though each or could preview them that would help. I could also upload them all and see if anyone wanted to go through them like sky crawlers