We can't lose the air, go back and look at every single battle report where our air-superiority is even remotely questioned. Every single time we get "Forenia really need it's air power to complete" and, lose terribly. Further more they are slightly winning in the air right now rather then merely contesting. So anything that doesn't make us own the air again is a guaranteed defeat.
UFAF-F-43 'Strife'
The strife is designed to be to return the Cannalan air-force to it's rightful place of being the most dangerous branch of their military. The design is a twin engine flying wing armed with four 20mm auto cannons in the nose. In order to fix with the yawing issue of flying wings a two sets of small fins are mounted on the engine pylons. The new Jt-22 engine are a large improvement over our early crude turbofans. They make use of a twin-spool design letting them make use of a moderate speed feed fan and a high compressor vastly improving power. Further more annular combustors are also used to improving power as well. The four auto-cannons are nose mounted with room to spare for further improvements. To make use of our new missiles the strife includes a rotating bomb bay with a one ton payload; letting it mount up to four missiles at a time. The rotating bay let's the strife fire off a single missile at a time and, a low explosive charge is used to punt them out of the bay; all while being smaller then a comparably bay. Unlike the lighting streak which was unable to use flares the strife has builtin streamlined mounting points for them The flares are also are mounted in a way to fail in front of the engine improving the chances enemy missiles with target them. Thanks to the high lift and ultra low drag nature of a flying wing design the strife can reach unheard of speeds and, can also achieve unmatched agility letting our pilots dodge their missiles with ease.
Don't tell me this is too advance when we are fighting a foe with, a hellfire missile able to directly hit an extremely fast and maneuverable fighter, a bomber able to still carry twelve tons(after nerfing our missiles) powered by engine from a few decades ahead of it's time and, a knockoff Panzerfaust 3 over three decades early. Also if we are going to have to stay with the bloody nazis when we better well get some super weapons out of it. Combo with with a radar mounted in the bomb bay using a revision and, we have a chance of turning this around. If we get a decent radar(although it will take up the whole bomb bay no doubt) we can not only regain the air but, also be in a better position. As with radar we can engage them away from our transports and, bombers. Letting us use them with negligible causalities. Also we should rip the proximity fuze off the missile and use them to knock out their bulls.
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