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Aero Mk 1 - Atmospheric Multirole Fighter

The Advanced Aerospace Systems Aero Mark 1 Multirole fighter is the first in the series of aircrafts designed to perform within atmospheric environments, mostly fitted with a balanced configuration between speed, power and functionality. The turbofan engines can fly directly up with a high angle of attack or just the powerful vertical lift can be used to reach very high altitudes, that also allows a recover from a top speed free fall to 0 M/s in less than 400m. It's armed with 4x Gatling Guns and 6x Rocket Launchers for all sorts of attack operations, all linked to a high capacity storage for sustained combat, and is also equipped with an ECM system that attempts to divert the enemy fire from critical systems.
Despite of not being an hybrid, its comes equipped with a LSMD (Limited Space Mobility Drive), wich allows the Aero to perform small manneuvers in space, inside carriers, or to propel itself into a planet's atmosphere, as it's capable of entering a planet all the way from orbit, however, it cannot escape the planet's gravity on it's own.
Since it's life support system draws air directly from the atmosphere, there's no need for O2 tanks or generators.


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Uses mods: No
Survival Ready: Yes
Projectable: Fully

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Action Bar 1:
1. Gatling Guns
2. Gatling Guns Autofire On/Off
3. Gun Camera
4. Sequenced Rocket Launchers
5. ECM (Decoys)
6. Engines Glow Lights
7. Navigation Lights
8. Front Lights
9. Landing Gears (Switch lock)

Action Bar 2:
1. ID Antenna
2. S.O.S. Beacon
3. Cockpit Air Vent
4. Repairs Projector
5. LSMD (Ion Drive)
6. Docking Light
7. Starter Reactor
8. Docking Camera
9. Connector lock switch

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- The power consumption can reach up to a max of 98%, this only means it's actually very energy efficient as it doesn't have to carry extra weight from unused power generating blocks.
- The landing gears are leveled wotj the fuselage for maximum clearance, be careful when landing.
- Ignore 'Weapon is not working' warnings, the scripts works that way.
- Sometimes when using low power thrusters, the speed gets stuck in "0.01", if that happens, just 'shake' the ship a little and it will start accelerating normally, this should only happen in space because of the low power provided by the Ion Engines.
- If you don't like either the engine glow or navigation lights, just turn them off anytime, or change their colors, they're grouped up in the terminal menu conveniently.


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4x Wide mounted conveyor fed Gatling Guns
6x Sequenced Rocket Launchers (24 Missiles)
4x Decoys (ECM)

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Powerplant - Starter Reactor(Small) / 2 Large Reactors / 1 Battery
Communications & Tracking - S.O.S. Beacon + Main ID Antenna
Life Support - Atmospheric Air Vent/Recycler
Guidance & Control - Remote Control
Storage - Fully Linked Storage System / Bottom Connector Access
Observation - Aiming / Docking Cameras
Mobility - Limited Space Mobility Drive (LSMD)
Defense - Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) / Self Repair Projector

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Frame/Chassis:
Block Count: 877
Curb Weight: 98,356.99Kg (Approx.)
Power Output (Max): 34.3 Mw
Length: 16 Meters / ~ 6.4 Large Blocks
Width: 12.5 Meters / ~ 5 Large Blocks
Height 3.0 Meters / ~ 1,2 Large Blocks

Performance:
Main Propulsor Type: Turbofan
0 - 100 M/s: 5.61s (~1,856.0Kn) (Max)
Acceleration rate: 17.8 M/s/s (Max)
Absolute Ceiling: ~5307M
Up: 14.0 M/s/s (Max)
Down: 10.2 M/s/s (Gravity Only)
Sides: 7.0 M/s/s (Max)
Reverse: 9.3 M/s/s (Max)

Secondary Propulsor Type: LSMD Ion
LSMD Ion Rated @ 24Kn - All Directions
Space Only

* All measurements were aligned with the horizon
** 120Km 1G Earth-Like Planet ~92-97% Max engine power at lowest point found.
*** Mobility values are rounded up by a max of 0.1M/s/s.

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Automatic LCDs 2 by MMaster: http://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=822950976
Weapons Salvo Code by Whiplash141: https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1221921128

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v1.2 Jun-27 Update 1.186.5
- Some overall updates to the armor and design, changed the front white V lines back to the original
- Battery and some other blocks needed better armoring, they where quite vulnerable so some changes were made to the armors to fix that
- A few lines were improved and are more in conformity with everything else
- LSMD was rated at 24Kn but it was 12Kn only instead, this was fixed
- Performance improved slightly
- Terminal is cleaner now
- Several thrusters were re-positioned for better clearance and design
- This should be the last shape altering update, sorry for that guys

v1.1 Jun-21 Update 1.186.5
- New standard cockpit HUD with center display installed
- Added a battery
- Upward center lift power increased by 480Kn
- Forward trusters replaced. Power remains unchanged
- Sideways power increased by 80Kn each
- Reverse power increased by 320Kn
- Increased gyroscopes power
- Minor armor tweaks and reinforcements on weaker spots
- Docking spotlight added
- 2 External control panels added
- Small paintjob change
- All scripts are up to date and uses less resources now
- Weight reduced