Shateya Fidereal Airlifter

Shateya Fidereal Light Airlifter, currenlty under improvements and detailing in Blender 2.49B

Heheheheh... finally i have my own light transport aircraft

Introductionary Specifications (Subject of Changes):

Dimensions

Length : 40,43 m
Height : 7 m
Wingspan : 34,95 m
Wing Area : Will be available soon
Total Wetted Area : Will be available soon

Cargo Hold Dimensions :
Length : 15,1 m
Width : 2,1 m
Height : 3 m

Crew : 3 -1 pilot , 1 co-pilot , 1 loadmaster

Weight Parameters :
Empty Weight : 27000 Kg
Cargo load : 18.000 Kg
Fuel Capacity : 15.000 Kg - 18.750 Litres of T-1 Jet Fuel
MTOW : 60000 Kg

Performance

Design Range : 6500 km
Design Flight Endurance : Will be available soon
Maximum Speed : 900 kph
Cruise Speed : 700-850 Kph
Service Ceiling (typical) : 10.500 m -(max) 15.500 m

Powerplant Type : 2x High bypass turbofan Ixiom Valinea
Thrust & TSFC- SLS : 68.784 Lbf TSFC-0,35
Cruise SFC (alt 10.000 m) : 0,579
L/D ratio : will be available soon (est. 17-21)

Armaments :
-4x TT-65 65 cm ASW Torpedo and Kh-31AD Anti Ship Missile (MPA Variants only)

Countermeasures :
-Chaff
-Flare
-JAFF decoy emitter
-"Sixana" Self Protection Jammer with "Valesca" RHAWS and ESM system
-"Sentinel" Active Counter Missile Defence System (Spec-OPS variant only)

Aircraft price (U$-FY-2009) and Vihenian Rubel : U$ 85.020.686 or VR-72.051.429


A Multipurpose advanced light transport aircraft. Fidereal was built with
modularity and flexibility embedded in very early stage of her design program,
allowing her to perform many roles as her big sister Shateya Thalassa, as Tanker,
AEW Aircraft, maritime patrol aircraft and as a means of delivery for special forces
in smaller scale and costs than her big sisters, this aircraft will
replace our old light AN-12 and lower capability AN-38 aircraft serving our cause during WW-III .

For ease of maintenance and logistics , Shateya fidereal shares 80% commonalities
in avionics with Shateya Thalassa and Shateya Ilmeria, shares same APU , and same engine as
Thalassa , although some people from our engineering community regard such measure as
"overkill" (since Ixiom Valinea is almost as large as her fuselage and extremely powerful performance) ,
our general designer for Fidereal implies that beside simplicity of logistics in frontline , massive Thrusts to
Weight ratio delivered by Ixiom Valinea , would be beneficial to provide growth for payload
capability as well as to provide superior STOL capability over competitors , like OPFOR's
C-130J Hercules and allow operations from Vihenian Navy's Battle Carrier.

In design aspect, Fidereal utilize similar Coanda effect wing with engine mounted overwing as Antonov AN-72/74
and OPFOR's prototype Boeing YC-14 , this layout allows thrust flow from engine to "attach" on airfoil's surface ,
directing it to the ground, thus provide additional lift required for Short field takeoff,
without need to use heavy and complex triple slotted lift device , found on OPFOR's C-17 and common airliners .
The layout also has advantage of reduced possibility of ground FOD ingestion during take-off or landing on dirt or muddy runaway , due to high position of the engine .
However the layout will somewhat,
bit difficult to handle, due to heights , and may require elevators to help mainenance and engine replacement procedures.
Fidereal also shares same "design ethics" of our transport aircraft, to use ramp door and H-type vertical tail , to allow
operations from underground or mountain airbase where height of aircraft is limited and to provide simple and easier to produce
rampdoor. Drag is compensated through special boundary layer "blower" which will direct bleed air from engine to smoothened
flow on the rampdoor's surface, reducing turbulence , and thus parasitic drag of the rampdoor .

In flight control, Fidereal's system is largely taken from Shateya Thalassa , sharing same flight control software,
instrument layouts, simplify conversion training and maintenance . The system is also highly modular , with large capacity memory and programmable processor, with built in documentation and "self development kit" and "performance sampler" allowing new customly made flight modes or software to be built and tested "right away" without need of complex test equipment
and dedicated testing aircrafts. However use of this ability requires permission and review
from Vihenian Air Force and Institute of Science and Technology Development - Aviation Division.
Such measures are necessary to prevent pilot or flight engineer from creating possibly dangerous flight modes or softwares
which may cause loss of both life and aircrafts .

In terms of propulsion, massive and somehow oversized Ixiom Valinea engine, provide Thrust to Weight ratio of some 0,9, to compensate
drag and to provide STOL ability to the aircraft. The engine are interchangeable with Shateya Thalassa , with minor adjstments
in software (Plug and Play).

Fidereal is the first aircraft of our forces to adopt our new "Sentinel" Active Counter Missile Defense System, to increase survivability in penetration mission against opponents possesing advanced SAM System where chaff, flare and jammers are no meaning to their operations .
The system consist with Optical MAWS with longwave thermal imager , to spot incoming missile , and milimmetric wave conformal array RADAR system.
that will track and provide firing solutions for kill vehicle (Beelzebub), a very short range ( 200m -1 km) missile with blast fragmentation warhead, which will
shred incoming missile and make them prematurely explodes or at least, missed it's target .
Sentinel system however are only installed onboard Fidereal that optimized on Special forces delivery , due to large size of missile and RADAR container , which
require special pylons mounted overwing to provide 360 degrees protection , against SAM with Loft-Glide trajectory or "regular" Boost-glide trajectory pattern


Shateya Fidereal is currently serving our forces, with over 650 produced , along with variants, like AEW, Tanker, Spec-Ops , ELINT/SIGINT and MPA .
This aircraft is also exported to allied nations, such as Principality of Gallia, who operates AEW,Tanker and MPA variant , other operators include North Korea People's
Air Force, who operate MPA, SIGINT/ELINT and AEW variants.

Beside for military purpose, Fidereal also serve commercial world, as a light freighter aircraft, leased by Volga-Dnepr and FED-EX , to deliver supplies and package to
remote and isolated area , such as Russian "Vostok" research station in Antartica . The commerical Fidereal , differs only with the removal of Jammers , sensitive IFF
equipments , removal of several military related flight modes but retain ground mapping SAR modes with resolution up to 1 square meters , the aircraft is still retain
its Valesca RHAWS system and associated Chaff and Flare dispensers.