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Devil Ray 17 [DR-17] | |
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General information | |
Type | Multirole Fighter |
Manufacturer | RAY Systems Inc. |
Status | In Production, In Service |
History | |
Introduction date | 12 Pax 1609 |
Development
Design
Operational Variants
Operators
Specifications [DR-17A]
General Characteristics
- Crew: 2-1 (Pilot and weapon systems officer) + AI
- Length: 19.5–19.8 m (64–65 ft)
- Wingspan: 13.4–14.3 m (44–47 ft)
- Height: 3.9–4.5 m (13–15 ft)
- Empty Weight: 47,000 lb (21,000 kg)
- Gross Weight: 69,000 lb (31,000 kg)
- Max Takeoff Weight: 84,000 lb (38,000 kg)
- Powerplant: 2 × thrust-vectoring afterburning turbofans
- Dry Thrust: 50,400 lbf (224 kN)
- With Afterburner: 75,600 lbf (336 kN)
- VTOL Thrust Liftrotor: 38,500 lbf (171 kN)
- VTOL Thrust Main Engine: 36,400 lbf (162 kN)
- Fuel Capacity: 22,500 kg (49,600 lb) internally; 8,345 lb (3,785 kg) 2x external tanks
Performance
- Maximum Speed:
- High Altitudes: Mach 3.4 (4198 km/h)
- Supercruise: Mach 2.3 (2840 km/h)
- Sea Level: Mach 0.9 (1111 km/h)
- Range: 1,800 mi (2,900 km)
- Combat Radius: 1,000 mi (1,600 km)
- Ferry Range: 2,300 mi (3,700 km)
- Service Ceiling: 80,000 ft (24,000 m)
- Maximum g-load: -3.0/+9.0
Armament
- Guns: 1x 30mm autocannon (600 rounds)
- Hardpoints: 1x shotlocker with 16x hardpoints; 2x Internal Weapons Bays with 1x hardpoint each; 8x external hardpoints.
- Stealth Air-to-Air:
- 8x Boomsticks
- 2x Twisters
- 2x Air-To-Air Missiles (AAM)
- Air-to-Ground:
- 8x Small Diameter Glide Munitions
- Stealth Air-to-Air:
Avionics
- Suite of Sensors
- 1× Active electronically scanned array (AESA)
- Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
- 1× Electronic Warfare System
- 1× Active electronically scanned array (AESA)
- Electro-Optical Distributed Aperture System (EODAS)
- Situational awareness infrared search-and-track (SAIRST)
- 30x infrared sensors
- Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS)
- 8× Infrared tracking camera
- 6× Ultraviolet tracking sensor
- Missile approach warning system
- Communications, Navigation, and Identification (CNI) suite
- Directional Multifunction Advanced Data Link (MADL)
- Laser imaging, detection, and ranging (LIDAR)
Cockpit
- Speech Recognition System
- Helmet-mounted display system (HMDS)
- Panoramic Touchscreen
Other Features
- LO External Chaff & Flares:
- 5x Flare dispenser doors
- 2x transmitter decoy dispenser doors
- Diverterless Supersonic Inlet (DSI)
- Variable-sweep Wings
- Serrations on the hatches
- Telescoping ladder
- Special radar scattering tape around the serrated hatches
- Main Nozzle Thrust
- 3 separate ring sections
- Lift Rotor
- Two-counter rotating titanium blisks
- 2x roll thrust nozzles
- Variable geometry tailplane
- CNT-Based Signature Control Material
- Sharp edge to break up the Circular nose cone