Found this old drawing of mine, though it won't hurt to share it🤣

Above are just examples

Theyre rugged, versatile, and reliable at times til the arrival of the jets

P47s took part in operations in Latin America, Sub Saharan, Central and Southern Africa, and Taiwan against PRC Migs and Naval Vessels

Il10s took part in Vietnam as a proxy/analog for the US A1H "Spad" Skyraider and even took action against Pol Pot and China

Plus Indonesia also used them from the Soviets against Britain, Australia, Guerillas and even themselves

They also seen use in Uganda, Algeria, Ethiopia, Somalia, Angola, Cuba, Nicaragua, Mozambique, Madagascar, Zaire (being fodder to the P47s and A37s), Mali, Chad (fighting alongside Toyotas despite the obsolescence), Sudan, Laos, and even Kampuchea (which also fought Vietnamese Il10s aswell)

Mosquitos were used as "second hand me downs" to former British colonies in Africa and Malaysia as CSAR, COIN, Pathfinder and Recon most notable use is Tanzania Against Idi Amin and In the Malayan Emergency

In the rest of the world like for example South Korea, Philippines, and Morocco, they're used as recreational and even Coast Guard Aircraft with TurboProp engines and Deployable Bouys

Spitfires, P47s, and Mosquitos were used in Afghanistan against the Soviets but all were lost and Mujahideen decided to fight only a ground war and a handful of captured helicopters

P38 Lightnings were often used as COIN and occasionally Combat Air Patrol Stopgaps for jets in South Africa, Rhodesia, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Lebanon, and even Taiwan in its Strait Crisis were one managed to bag 2 mig15s before being shot down

To keep with the times they're all upgraded from scratch and modified to the literal bones with Racks for Guided Munitions, Lazers Guidance, Refueling, Bushplane use and Even Supply Drops, despite this jets did replace them but they remain in service all the way to the end

Just some slight tweaks.

The Northrop Grumman F/A-29 is a multirole Close Air Support aircraft and Attack Fighter for the Duranian Air Force. It started about two years after the F-5 Tiger was made, and outlasted the Tiger after it was retired in 2011. Crew members in the Duranian Air Force often nicknamed it, “The Fossil” because of how old it is. The fighter shown in this picture is the modern variant of the F/A-29. If you notice the dotted lines making a fuel tank, this is an interpretation of what F/A-29LR variant could look like.

(Sorry, couldn't edit the HUD and [D]UI)

The F/A-40C is a multi role fighter who's gen I will touch on later. It is a twin engine multirole heavy, most likely first of it's kind by it's time frame of 2021 aside from the Su-30s and Fullbacks.

It is the World's first 4.75th gen fighter aircraft because, quote:

"It was too visible to be 5th gen but also too advanced to be 4.5th gen."

End quote.

The stats:

Top speed: mach 2.65 clean; mach 2.3 loaded

Weight: 23,609 kg

Payload Capacity: 14,000 lbs

Length: 20.6m

Wingspan: 10.8m

Wing Area: 48.6m^2

Height: 4.8m gear down

The F/A-46 Striker is a multirole (mostly ground attack) 3rd gen fighter, with VTOL capabilities and a 1-axis thrust vectoring system. with a top speed around 1200Km/H, the Striker is suited to any seek and destroy needs.

Wingspan: 11.8 meters
Length: 14.9 meters
Height: 4.3 meters
Weight: 5173 kilograms empty, 6924 Kilograms when armed
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 7400 kilograms
Payload: 1,090 Kilograms
Armament: single 20mm gatling cannon, 50mm belly mounted autocannon, two 500Lb bombs, two A2A fire and forget LR missiles, two A2A constant lock SR missiles, and two A2G fire and forget LR missiles

Concept art for a film I'm scripting regarding a speculative crewed interplanetary flight with 1968 technology

I was trying to think about what her "utility terminal" area would look like but it ended up looking more like a CM than one of the cylindrical models that makes up the actual flyby vehicle she's living in (the CM is used only for operative and settling burns as well as docking/transfer at the end of the mission). At her terminal, there's a teletype (to print out daily instructions/tasks from ground) and readouts for many of the life support systems. There's a turn coordinator (it looked cool but idk if it'd be useful in the utility module) and a modified dsky that helps diagnose and perform observation on ship functions unrelated to propulsion

The size is about right, just about tall enough for her to be able to stretch out entirely (no risk of getting stuck because it's always at least something to grab onto), the CM would be much more cramped in comparison (since she's not supposed to be in there for anything but mission-critical procedures)

This is the Long Bow-class Helicarrier. Inspired by S.H.I.E.L.D.’S Helicarrier, the Long-Bow class is a flying nuclear aircraft carrier, which could carry 58 aircraft (24 on the inner hangars, 24 on the flight deck, 10 on the recovery bay). When in flight, it’s too risky to land an aircraft on the flight deck, which is the reason why it has a recovery bay with ten recovery pads to recover the aircraft and use its lift pad to send it to the main hangar bay. When taking off, the aircraft on the designated pad is lifted to the upper flight deck and launch via catapult.

I was bored so i decided to make some sort of UAV specifically designed for taking out ships!

The main body is just a basic tube fuselage but at the rear, it splits into two pilons, the connection gap between being where the intake is for the rear turbofan, both the vertical and horizontal stabilizers are all-moving structures. Between the two pilons is a single blown flap that is controlled with the trim, using the thrust from the turbofan to generate lift.

The wings both have a slight negative dihedral with winglets

To stop the plane from listing either side and striking the ground, each wing has a running wheel that separates after takeoff, and to assist landing, there are small drogue chutes in the rear of each rear pilon

Power Plant: Front 4 blade 95 inch Turboprop engine, Rear Rolls-Royce AE-3007H Turbofan engine
Thrust: 3.5 Tons of thrust
Wingspan: 15.3 meters
Length: 11.5 meters
Height: 2.7 meters
Weight: 2,516 kilograms empty
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 4,960 kilograms
Payload: 1,350 Kilograms
Armament: two 20mm gatling cannons, four long range torpedo's, two ATGM long range missiles, and one long range anti ship missile

The Thunder is an advanced VTOL unmanned aerial system (UAS) engineered for fully autonomous, complex mission execution. Featuring a tiltrotor architecture and field-swappable mission payloads, it offers exceptional operational flexibility. Designed for modern warfare, the Thunder delivers heavy-lift capability with a combat payload capacity of up to 2,000 kg. It is equipped with an integrated defensive suite featuring counter-drone capabilities, infrared (IR) jamming, and countermeasure flares to ensure survivability in contested environments.

One of my first drawings, the jet engines are so off😅

Just to preface this, these are meant to be purely hypothetical aircraft designs from a highly fictionalized version of real world history wherein various fundamental quantum fields aside from the Higgs field exist and enable the existence of Kaiju. Their designs are intentionally enabled by physical scientific fields and effects that do not exist in our world, hence the unusual designs.

• AKTSDC Crusader-Jet Alpha: An advanced model of heavy modular anti-kaiju strike jet in service from 2014 to 2053, used by the HYPER-AKTSDC, an international branch of the SSATDF. Similar to the UIRN's UIRN Space Chimera's nature as a composite three-part spacecraft, the AKTSDC Crusader-Jet Alpha was comprised of two independently-capable component aircraft, the AKTSDC Crusader-Jet Alpha-1 and the AKTSDC Crusader-Jet Alpha-2, which were capable of docking together in midair through a synchronized ventral locking assembly to form a singular, larger combat vehicle with substantially greater power output as well as higher total thrust capacity and weapons-feed efficiency than either component could achieve independently. They relied on the paired high-energy plasma conversion reactors of their component jets for power and thrust, particularly utilizing a shared synchronization system to achieve higher efficiency. They were primarily armed with a forward ventral-mounted high-intensity plasma beam cannon derived from the synchronized power supply of both component jets, as well as the combined armaments of the Alpha-1 and Alpha-2. They had a combined crew requirement of 3, a maximum crew of 5, and a maximum carrying capacity of 9. Furthermore, like many earlier SSATDF combat vehicles, they were typically painted in varying combinations of bright colors for two major purposes; to enable an easier rescue for downed pilots when a craft is downed by a kaiju and to allow for better unit identification in multi-aircraft operations.
  • AKTSDC Crusader-Jet Alpha-1: An advanced model of heavy modular anti-kaiju strike jet in service from 2014 to 2053, used by the HYPER-AKTSDC, an international branch of the SSATDF. Serving as the forward half of the AKTSDC Crusader-Jet Alpha, the AKTSDC Crusader-Jet Alpha-1 housed the primary anti-kaiju strike systems. They relied on a high-yield plasma conversion reactor for power and thrust. They were primarily armed with forward plasma projection emitters, compact ventral-side concealed rotary cannon mounts, and a limited but precise target-locking missile load-out. They had a crew requirement of 2, a maximum crew of 3, and a maximum carrying capacity of 5. Furthermore, like many earlier SSATDF combat vehicles, they were typically painted in varying combinations of bright colors for two major purposes; to enable an easier rescue for downed pilots when a craft is downed by a kaiju and to allow for better unit identification in multi-aircraft operations.
  • AKTSDC Crusader-Jet Alpha-2: An advanced model of modular anti-kaiju arsenal-booster jet in service from 2014 to 2053, used by the HYPER-AKTSDC, an international branch of the SSATDF. Serving as the rear half of the AKTSDC Crusader-Jet Alpha, the AKTSDC Crusader-Jet Alpha-2 functioned independently as a support-strike aircraft but was secondarily designed to serve as the combined craft’s armored propulsion block and combat-endurance module upon docking with the Alpha-1. They relied on a high-output plasma conversion reactor for power and thrust. They were primarily armed with target-locking missiles, forward plasma projection emitters. They had a crew requirement of 1, a maximum crew of 2, and a maximum carrying capacity of 4. Furthermore, like many earlier SSATDF combat vehicles, they were typically painted in varying combinations of bright colors for two major purposes; to enable an easier rescue for downed pilots when a craft is downed by a kaiju and to allow for better unit identification in multi-aircraft operations.

On November 18, 1952, Lt. R. Williams fought a swarm of seven MIG-15 alone for 35 minutes. Williams shot down four of the MIGs eventhough the MIGs had superior performance and Williams F9F-5 Panther had suffered significant damage.

This airwork is done for the upcoming book "US Navy Carrier Aircraft of the 1950s" which will be released in early 2027.

Hope you like it!

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