Talk:AIF/@comment-10905876-20141022021126

The IKN Strategic Air Subdivision, also known as the IKAF, has completed a new bomber: the XB-95. Developed from the research made for the XB-90 that survived the Prometheus War, the XB-95 is an entire new airframe (the XB-90 blueprints were all destroyed) with an advanced delta wing and canard configuration. The bomber is designed for a maximum speed of Mach 3 at altitude, and Mach 1.2 at sea level. It is designed with terrain following radar, allowing for safe Mach 1.2 flight at low level to the target, but it has difficulty making any kind of evasive maneuvers. The XB-95 can carry both a conventional, or nuclear bomb load, and has enough range to reach anywhere in the world from AIF airbases.

Early flight testing suffered from a problem with its avionics, resulting in a catastrophic loss of flight control, and the destruction of the involved airframe. Thankfully the test crew all successfully bailed out, and the software problem was rectified. All further tests have been successful, and the plane had been accepted by IKAF for production as a strategic heavy bomber.

OOC: I captured some screenshots when I couldn't get it to be stable, even after I made the thing 1000+m tall! I solved that problem with the "runway" base. I've got more test failure screenshots if people want them.