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@jascrandom9855

11 ай бұрын

What software do you use for these animations?

@luislealsantos

11 ай бұрын

Believe is a one extra third overkill

@jaynedavies2757

11 ай бұрын

you asked why didn't they want a small aircraft. small but powerfull, isn't american, look at their culture. it's all big is better. why have a shop when you can have a massive shopping mall, type thinking. the american ego just simply wouldn't allow it. it doesn't actually mean that bigger things are better quality. it is early teenage boy thinking basically

@Thelongmanable

11 ай бұрын

*_Smaller drone versions would be seriously lethal!!!_*

@vitaliylomanoff1759

10 ай бұрын

​@@jascrandom9855I Don't Know.

"Half a helicopter, half a fighter jet, and half a battle tank." Dude, that's three halves.

@FoundAndExplained

11 ай бұрын

I'm glad someone can count because clearly the engineers building this didnt!

@michaelanuradha-khufu74

11 ай бұрын

It's 100% AMERICAN 🗣🇺🇸🦅

@harryhanz1690

11 ай бұрын

Freedom Math ain't ever wrong, Pinko!

@specracer28

11 ай бұрын

When you have enough money like the US military, you can make up math😂

@EngineeredChannel

11 ай бұрын

It's the Man Bear Pig of planes.

Just noticed the cockpit is only held in place by a single hinge while hovering. So I'm sure the pilots would have felt very secure while being shaken violently.

@Thestuffnope

11 ай бұрын

Imagine that part malfunctions and it becomes stuck in the down position.

@quillmaurer6563

11 ай бұрын

@@Thestuffnope In that case, you simply land. If it gets stuck in the up position, landing would be quite difficult but not impossible - some "tailsitter" concepts (briefly addressed in the video) did not have the cockpit-pivot mechanism, so the pilot would have to look over their shoulder to land. Perhaps doing so would have been part of the training for flying this aircraft. And if worst came to worst, I'm sure it had ejection seats.

@quillmaurer6563

11 ай бұрын

I think of this the same way I think of WWI fighter pilots: Sketchy, perhaps, but way less dangerous or unpleasant than most other duties during that war. And helicopters are full of critical could-easily-fail-and-often-do parts. Fixed-wing pilots often describe helicopters as "An assortment of parts all attempting to become random in motion," and given helicopters' complexity that's not too far from the truth (granted I'm a civilian fixed-wing pilot so perhaps biased). I could actually imagine this being overall simpler and more reliable than a conventional helicopter. The one drawback is that it wouldn't be able to auto-rotate if all engines fail, and I could imagine with one or two of the three engines out it might be able to fly horizontal but not hover and land vertically, this aircraft not capable of safely landing horizontally. But also in its favor, unlike conventional helicopters, it could be and I'm guessing would have been equipped with ejection seats, so if worst came to worst the crew could give it the multi-million-dollar "fuck this shit I'm out."

@zzzxhrg

11 ай бұрын

You can only hope it had an emergency toilet

@paulinegeorge289

11 ай бұрын

The cockpit will snap off.

This is why I'm not Secretary of Defence, I would approve every crazy idea that some nutty engineer proposed to me. Just because I want to see if it can be done.

"Why was this never fully developed?" Shilka goes BRRRRRRRR

This looks like something German engineers came up with towards the end of WWII

@michaelanuradha-khufu74

11 ай бұрын

It might've been 😂

@slowrider8680

11 ай бұрын

so true

@bocahdongo7769

11 ай бұрын

.... 283 did exist, at least on paper

@zh84

11 ай бұрын

The Heinkel "Lerche" was a similar proposal but never got off the drawing board.

@samuelglueck6911

11 ай бұрын

Them or the average Karbal Space Program player or possibly COBRA.

Never ask A woman, her age A man, his salary Found and explained, where he got all of these prototype vehicle from

@FoundAndExplained

11 ай бұрын

A fever dream

@Idk-wb4lf

11 ай бұрын

He is definitely war gaming devs that made tanks in WoT

@matthewkurniawan4081

11 ай бұрын

@@FoundAndExplained nice, i also had once a fever dream where tricycle humvee and vtol c130 hercules exist

@marlboro9tibike

11 ай бұрын

In soviet vietnam, the questions wont be asked by YOU!

@adastra7939

11 ай бұрын

Either way, regardless of where he finds them, I look forward to whatever failed aerospace projects or proposed designs Nick comes across. It’s interesting what the human imagination can come up with, especially when it comes to technological advancements!

I remember in the 80s there was a cartoon called GI joe. They had ridiculous vehicles but some were loosely based on reality. I remember a particular one called a sky hawk and later in the 90s in a Jane's military weapons book I found a similar proposed vehicle. This feels like something that might have ended up in that cartoon

I love your good use of CGI to bring these crazy vehicles to life. It makes the world of difference to these videos.

This looks like it would have been right at home in the G.I. JOE / ACTION FORCE toy lines of the '80s!

@GoodGnewsGary

11 ай бұрын

That was my first thought too. I would totally begged for that.

@rcoony

11 ай бұрын

This was also the first thing I thought when I saw this!

@themadatheist1976

11 ай бұрын

The Last Starfighter. ;)

@CB-ke7eq

11 ай бұрын

At least one former Hasbro designer has confirmed that they would often get inspiration from these exotic Cold War designs and similar vehicles they would find in 50s/60s era Popular Science magazines.

@MeridithLafluer-ty4pn

11 ай бұрын

Real

Someone needs to make a game about all those crazy prototypes featured on Found and Explained.

@suswagattomhazra2780

11 ай бұрын

I AM DOING ONE Launching by 2030 Funds problem

@ratte6090

11 ай бұрын

Still better than WoT.

@revolverswitch

10 ай бұрын

already exists: Metal Gear Solid

@leaphchausew7277

8 ай бұрын

It’s called War Thunder

@ildart8738

3 ай бұрын

Il2 Sturmovik: 1946

Actually. As an unmanned drone kinda thing ..and a bit smaller ..it could be practical and useful. Or even just made from modern materials it could be useful

It's actually called a "annular wing" aircraft and there were a lot of them designed (and some built such as the French SNECMA Coléoptère) in the '50s and 60s. The issue with the annular wing is it's not really good at level flight having less actual range than a regular wing. On the other hand you could add wings onto the hard points for ferry flights but even for near range flights some type of tilt wing would likely be a better option. My personal headcanon is that the side-by-side cockpit would likely have been replace before production with something more like the Cobra or Apache as it would allow a more robust tilting mechanism. (Going to do a video on the artillery cannon armed Chinook? :) )

I can already see why this is a bad idea, but I'm really looking forward to see an expansive video essay about how bad the idea is exactly.

@bocahdongo7769

11 ай бұрын

Mustard did on cleocopter one It just refuse to fly horizontally

@FoundAndExplained

11 ай бұрын

The project didn’t even get that far

@seanbigay1042

11 ай бұрын

A bad idea? Why? Just because if its power cut out it'd crash even faster than any helicopter?

@Girder3

11 ай бұрын

@@seanbigay1042 Mind you, helicopters have the benefit of autorotation in case power to their main rotor cuts off.

@anandsharma7430

11 ай бұрын

@@bocahdongo7769 Correct title: "Plane Without Wings: The Story of The C.450 Coléoptère" Or kzread.info/dash/bejne/p6KumM-fmraap9Y.html

I'm not going to lie, knowing how terrifying the recoilless rifles were in Vietnam, especially the tanks with the 50 cal spotters, _i'm not surprised this exists._

The French made exactly this thing, it was called a Coleopter. The first time it wanted to transition from vertical flight to horizontal flight, it crashed and went up in flames. The round wing did not give any useful lift, so they abandoned the idea.

Not sure why, but 0:06 looks very epic The explosion and the funny shape of the plane on that angle is probably the most badass thing i've seen ever

Part of me actually hopes one of the aerospace companies will actually make something like this, even as a prototype.

@DanakarEndeel

11 ай бұрын

Even a smaller version like a drone might have potential. Not sure if there are weapons out there that are still effective at a reduced size and without recoil (so the poor thing doesn't spin around). Not so sure about its stability though during hover mode with just that big fan in the center.

@alwynwatson6119

10 ай бұрын

The Doom penguin used in Ukraine against the new world order is a bit like this but with lasers and rail guns.

@DanakarEndeel

10 ай бұрын

@@alwynwatson6119 I tried searching for this "Doom penguin" but couldn't find anything regarding this. Additionally I am unaware of any railgun weaponry that could be small enough while still proving effective. To my knowledge the current generation of railguns require way too much power to be on any mobile platform. The smallest ones still require massive power that could only be feasible on larger warships or carriers with nuclear power. As such I must ask; is this "Doom penguin" some kind of fictional thing from a movie or videogame?

@bocahdongo7769

10 ай бұрын

France did It was completely wasted piece of junk design that will 1000% kill you if you force it to fly horizontally

@oompalumpus699

9 ай бұрын

​@@DanakarEndeelNah fam, guy you're talking to was trying to be funny.

The first few seconds of this video gave me such a Metal-Slug/Contra/Heavy-Weapon vibe, I'm pretty sure you know this would've been a perfect side-scroller shooter enemy/player vehicle

@ratte6090

11 ай бұрын

Convair Slug, go! *insert grenade/main gun spam*

These sorts of crafts work really well in real time strategy games. Love it!

I wonder how they intended to reload the 106mm recoilless rifles given how they are a single shot weapon without provision for a magazine in the basic design. So either super complicated and heavy autoloaders, or one of the crew has to climb outside and do it

First a pogo tank Then a plane that grabs a plane And finally the strange lovechild of a helicopter and a fighter jet I don't what kind of trio that would make, but it sounds like something straight out of one of my nonsensical dreams.

@EGRJ

11 ай бұрын

In case anyone was wondering, those videos are v=lZ5VMglwGNQ and v=F2_Lnuh4UWc

That looks like something COBRA would use.

@chheinrich8486

11 ай бұрын

No the joes would use it😅 cant you see the Stars and stripes

To me the most unrealistic aspect of this whole thing was its projected weapons and ammunition storage. I mean 12,000 mg rounds or 500 grenades for each of two turrets, 1,000 rounds of 30mm cannon ammo for a third turret, PLUS an optional 500 rockets or another 30mm auto cannon turret sounds more akin to ammo capacity for something in Star Wars than real life! Just insane!

I like how the powerful cannons aim directly up at your cockpit when it's bent into hovering position.

This type of aircraft is known as a coleopter; there is an article about them on the Wikipedia. The only one ever built and flown, in France, crashed on its ninth flight. The pilot ejected, but by that time he had discovered the thing had many undesirable flying characteristics, and he hadn't even tried to fly it horizontally. Convair would have had to overcome all these problems. Maybe they could have, but I imagine it would have taken so much time and money that the project would have ended up cancelled anyway.

@bocahdongo7769

11 ай бұрын

It doesn't have lifting body nor a sufficient wing. There's nothing redeeming with this kind of design

@brightlord-ov7cm

11 ай бұрын

​@bocahdongo7769 how about surprise value, the enemy will never expect you to use such a machine and boom there ya go. I know only after a few times will they be burning them out of the sky with crams but still.

@bocahdongo7769

11 ай бұрын

@@brightlord-ov7cm Guys, it's 2023 We already have research the future distopiant technology used by alien race called "drone"

@Sergeantgrunt

11 ай бұрын

The F117 cannot fly without a computer. I presume that if they wanted something like this today we could make it stable and work. Where would it fit? Would it even be feasible in todays arsenal? If it works, it's pretty cool.

@zh84

11 ай бұрын

@@Sergeantgrunt This is a good point. I am not an aerodynamicist, but I would guess that the more unstable the vehicle is, the more difficult it is for computer control to stabilise it. It may be that a coleopter, which isn't remotely shaped like an aircraft the way the F117 is, would be impossibly difficult to stabilise even WITH a computer.

Basically just a flying M50 Ontos lol

@brandenhall4063

11 ай бұрын

You leave the M50 alone

@adamfrazer5150

11 ай бұрын

😅 that's what it was missing - flight 😬

I get the navy helicopter idea on paper, but the navy generally uses jets for attack roles and helicopters are relegated to S&R, cargo - both personnel and whatever else it might need to ferry, and recon, which are all out of question for the Convair Model 49. Not to mention anything that can carry a helicopter is always moving fairly rapidly, so trying to land a VTOL that's slower than the ship would be a nightmare

There are three major issues with this desin, especially in the 1960's: 1. Landing one of these, even with the droop nose, would have been very tricky without computer or TV assistance. This is what killed the original tail-sitting VTOLs. 2. It wouldn't auto-rotate like a helicopter, so in case of engine failure, it would likely fall like a rock. In horizontal mode it might glide a bit but with the big rotor blocling airflow and the heavy armor, probably not very well. So 3. Any engine failure is a critical disaster. You do have three engines, which helps, but it is unclear how many it needs to get home or land. This also makes it impractical as a Navy aircraft (and landing on a ship would be even harder than on land).

That intro was ridiculous! The 60's must have been a wild time to be involved in military development Your animation skills have gotten seriously impressive

I guarantee the model makers for "The Last Starfighter" knew about this bad boy!

@Sherwoody

11 ай бұрын

Alex and Grig attacked the Ko-Dan mothership in this bad boy.

@Chilly_Billy

11 ай бұрын

​@@Sherwoody "Xur's Nightmare"

I love how you find these crazy concept aircraft. I thought I knew about about aviation history but you constantly surprise me. Thanks again!

There were several tail landers that were experimented with, both prop and jet based. However, the problem was that the pilot simply couldn't see well enough to land even with close circuit television. These ideas might be possible now with computer controlled or augmented landing but there's already plenty of other proven VSTOL platforms such as the tilt rotor, plus helicopters have continued to be effective gunships.

So funny that the implies the US military isn't still overfunded 😂

@josephparisi1458

11 ай бұрын

Every military is overfunded until they are at war.

@michaelhowell2326

11 ай бұрын

The US military isn't anywhere near as funded as you would think. We used to drill in the desert of TX and NM and have to yell bang bc we didn't have the funds for even blanks. And that was the Army, not the infamously cash-strapped Marines.

@cpte3729

11 ай бұрын

its 4%.

@SafeRemain

11 ай бұрын

@@michaelhowell2326 i'd assume most of that money is going to the navy and airforce then

@robertoroberto9798

11 ай бұрын

@@SafeRemainMore so of retired Veterans and the payroll I think.

A famous quote by The Duke of Wellington, "I don't know what effect they'll have on the enemy but my God they'll frighten me!"

This would work really well as an automated drone if they were to redesign it today

Hated it at first. Then it grew on me. Cockpit should be a gyroscopic ball though, like a hamster wheel. Would definitely serve well as a drone. The FIREPOWER is what ultimately won me over. Its basically a tank in the sky.

Thank God they thought of using recoiless guns, that's the only rational thing about it. If they didn't the recoil would cause the craft to spin faster then the propellor

I've been compiling a list of these wacky planes for the better part of a year now, for a far future project of mine. Love seeing more of these things.

@RACECAR

11 ай бұрын

Between the existence of this channel, Mustard and the various sources these spring from, I sense you are about to have quite a long list.

@Chris-ok4zo

11 ай бұрын

​@@RACECAR No kidding.

@ivannightly1919

11 ай бұрын

add in this one the us craft was based on it kzread.info/dash/bejne/p6KumM-fmraap9Y.html

@OneBiasedOpinion

11 ай бұрын

Is the secret base going to be in an active volcano on a remote island, or in an underwater cavern?

@Chris-ok4zo

11 ай бұрын

@@OneBiasedOpinion It's actually a book/film, but good guess.

US citizens: We need free healthcare, mental health public politics and programs US Goverment: Flying battle tank jet chopter goes BRRRRRRRR!!!!!

I like that when the cabin is tilted down, its own guns are pointed at the pilot :D

@komcharn69

11 ай бұрын

5:32

A Model 49 on a sub is giving me very strong Fallout vibes

People that stay in technology as they age tend to live better and more fulfilling lives. I am 70 and many my age have no idea how to work a smart phone or computer. I taught myself how to use a computer. I'm glad i was still young enough to grasp all the information I was learning. It's sad to watch an older person struggle with the unknown.

I can see why they didn't make this in the 60's,70's. But I could definitely see this design resurface in the next generation of drone platforms. Turning this into a drone would solve a lot of its issues revolving around crew safety/comfort. You could also make much more efficient designs using drone tech and amplify its capabilities significantly. The only question would be is it more effective to have larger drone gunships capable of overwhelming close air support or thousands of smaller drones with smaller smart munitions. I think both used in conjunction would be absolutely devastating but it might be a lot cheaper to just go with smaller drones and just as effective.

The Recoilless rifles mounted on the side, are single fire hand loaded cannons, that would have 1 round until they landed and reloaded. Also those explosions caused by them are excessive, they basically are lightweight anti-tank cannons or lightweight artillery, not fuel air bombs.

makes me think of those fictional "futuristic" military vehicles from the Mobile Suit Gundam series, I mean just google the Dopp fighter jet and many more.

I really love this channel, you do great work. Constructive criticism: it's pronounced "Shinook" and their motto is "If it's not leaking, brace for impact".

Great idea. In the manned version, it worked well before the advent of effective AA of the battlefield, but not in our era, as the combat vehicle is outdated. However, a UAV of this scheme will work great for delivering parcels, hot pizza or cold champagne at 4-30 in the morning. The outer annular housing will reduce the noise from the rotor to acceptable levels. It is very interesting as a compact kamikaze UAV, combining vertical takeoff, the absence of a starting device and the speed of ammunition delivery.

Man dropped the ad like a bomb; swift & sudden 😂

Their is no way that much ammo could have fitted in their 😅😅😅😅

@nofearnelson58

11 ай бұрын

It's just 1,000 rounds for the 30mm cannon and 500 rounds for the 2 40mm grenade launchers. All of that can easily fit on the lower-half of the nacelle. The upper-half of the nacelle would house the fuel.

@Pharozos

11 ай бұрын

Its the wheels placed in the end of the turbines that got me.

@cedriceric9730

11 ай бұрын

Its got quite a LOT of space actually

@rubberbandman200

5 ай бұрын

​@limhokpin just 1k rounds of 30mm can weigh over 2500 poinds lol. Plus thr 40mm grenades plus the recoiless rifle lol.. too heavy

France did this too, it called "Cleocopter". And they made it fly The problem is just.... It refuse to fly horizontally. When they really forced it, it just tumble down, killing the pilot. I mean, this kind plane have nothing to generate lift on horizontal flight, let's be honest with that

@wernerheenop

11 ай бұрын

100% man, I couldn't understand how this thing will defy physics and magically fly without lift.

@acajutla

11 ай бұрын

SNECMA C.450 Coléoptère

@thotmorgana

11 ай бұрын

Couldn't they make some lift out of the huge circel that surrounds the blades. If it would be wing shiped both bottom and top than it would be at least like 6 meters of wing together?

@bocahdongo7769

11 ай бұрын

@@thotmorgana no. Those perfectly circular yet small duct didn't do anything at all on lift. You can make it much more oblong and bigger to harvest the actual lift, but at that point, future alien race technology called "helicopter" makes more sense to build

I think it makes more sense to have a small bubble for the nose, and the cockpit rotates inside the bubble, instead of the whole nose pitching off a lever arm.

If they had your animations back then, this thing would have been built for sure. You made it look way cooler than it deserves. 😂

The Convair Model 49 is the closest thing we've ever got irl to Muv-Luv's TSF (Tactical Surface Fighter). I really love the 1960's, many "out of the box" ides AKA insane ideas were the norm and were followed though very often.

Half a helicopter, half a fighter jet, half a battle tank, and 100% INSANE.

@3801NSWGR.

11 ай бұрын

150% insane 😂

You should do a short video on the early attempts to attack special 105mm artillery pieces to a CH-47…that could be fired and reloaded in mid-flight. I’m not joking. Between that and the mock-ups of small artillery attached to a Chinook that would extend out from the fuselage and deploy in a more traditional way upon landing, the US Army had some real insane concepts before attack helos were properly developed.

As soon as you said the requirements, i immediately thought "ah, so like an apache". They had the supercobra, wierd they didn't look further into that direction.

So why didn't Uncle Sam build this magical mystery toy? I dunno, maybe because of the French experience with a similar machine -- one that CRASHED on takeoff?

The flying trash bin, throwing rotten tomatoes 😂

I thought Magic carpet ride was about psychedelics, but apparently they rolled it up into a tube and called "Convair 49". "You don't know what we can see Why don't you tell your dreams to me? Fantasy will set you free" Yep, matches up. Ahh the 60's!

Maybe someday we'll see the Main Battle VTOL again, considering the fact that in these ages we like to make vehicles *very* multirole, yes I'm looking at you BMPT Terminator.

The shortcomings of any military pipedream: too expensive, too heavy and too little room for fuel and ammo. But they keep Nick busy doing videos, so I'm ok with that... 😁😎🤟

Growing up in the 1950s and 60s I remember this well. Lots of magazines and books with great 'the future is here now' stuff. Even to a child it looked kind of sketchy but so cool.

8:53 At last i'm found this man in this video just same as i'm playing the ZH Generals Contra

Back in the day defense budgets allowed designers to cloud chase a bit. But that doesn't mean it was all built as proposed

This looks like something you'd build in Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.

@SafeRemain

11 ай бұрын

ahead of their time

You Brits are right. This combat aircraft design was actually BONKERS! Did Convair actually expect it could fly?

From an aero engineering standpoint i image that theirs a sizeable angle between the vertical and horizontal position where the craft dosnt have enough lift and just drops

I saw this in the patent database... i was so confused.. the plane they designed for the folding part was funny.

2:22 I don't think most of the vietkong ran around wielding .50cals

@Rumpelpumpel3

11 ай бұрын

A lot of things sound scuffed in this video. Hes making it seem like this thing has an insane amount of weapons. It pretty much has the weapons a helicopter would have aswell. Also calling it "Half a helicopter, half a fighter jet, and half a battle tank." What battle tank can only withstand 50cals?

@CyberVonCyberus

Ай бұрын

​@@Rumpelpumpel3 That thing is massive, it would be an easy target for an RPG or anti tank rifle.

When flying, I can't help but see an old wringer washer on its side going over. Wouldn't want to be on foot when it sails over the hill !

Aww... Imagine the what insanity this would have iterated into all these years later. How practical? In real life? No... But, in Command and Conqure? Hell yeah.

That might be the coolest boat I have ever seen. For its day it would have absolutely been a game changer. I love that thing.

you know with the recent testing of the V-BAT 128 safe to say this was just ahead of its time

That thing looks like the Gunstar from The Last Starfighter! That cockpit-hinge looks like a nightmare. Plus how were pilots supposed to dismount when landed?

Even if they overcame all the other issues, the Army would have lost _so many_ of these on the ground in Vietnam because they'd have gotten misused as mobile bunkers or armored vehicles but didn't actually have the armor to stop anything bigger than an AK.

They don't explain how you were supposed to reload the recoilless in flight.

You know how either you as a kid or someone you know had ALOT of toys and they often combined bits and pieces to make some Interesting creations and/or absolute monstrosities? This feels like one of those random creations as a result.

It's a fan jet that can go into hover mode. They have some fan jet footage on youtube. They used to use them as trainers.

I was thinking about a computer game, which implements all this insane cancelled projects of US army, the craziest of them, instead of conventional aircrafts, with special tactics and applications of their abilities. Would definitely play it!

is it possible that this helicopter/tank/jet would fly?

Hi F&E, this precisely shows that there are more psychiatrists in North America than there are postmen!

a French design from the 50's (SNECMA Coleoptra) rebuilt by German engineers from project Paperclip... so cool!

They surely drew inspiration from the SNECMA Coleoptere. I expect Convair combined their own experience with the Pogo, along with what they saw in the Coleoptere, to figure a rotating cockpit would solve their control problems.

The American cleoptre

@L0yalDragon

11 ай бұрын

finally, a french engineer enjoyer

The US Army is just… questionable

@chheinrich8486

11 ай бұрын

Hey they have a special unit unit with ninjas, a firefighter, a couple of marines (heresy fir the army) and a few guys that fight in football Shirts 😅😅😅😅😅😅 That is reference to gi joe and all these characters are part of it

I remember Mustard covered something similar made by the French called the Coleopter

this is the aircraft i am most peeved we never saw developed... easily my favorite weird design throughout history.

Me every time Found and Explained releases a new video: *sees vehicles in thumbnail* "What the fuck is this piece of shit?"

"But General, you said to think outside the box...."

this could be useful today as a sort of autonomous drone that could be called in quickly by infantry. you could probably ditch the weird front hinge part if you made it a drone.

I think they should have made the cockpit a stationary glass dome and make the seats + instruments swivel on the inside instead. Probably more reliable and less issues when the swivel fails.

That cockpit.... if they put a sphere there in the middle it could rotate in the sphere. No worries about shooting the nose off. It could easily stay level with gravity so just need some electromagnets as dampeners. And hopefully there's a model for this for flight simulators.

Dude, that looks exactly like the space fighter I designed when I was 11 lol

Looks like the Cobra 'Pogo' and GI Joe 'Ghost HAWK' had a baby!

01:49 Vibes of "The last star fighter" Gunstar.

I would actually love to see this built. It's no A-10, but it dam it would be great to see in action.

Heck yeah, I just watched the Last Starfighter last night. That is defintiely a Gunstar starfighter.

The pyschological effect alone makes it worth it.. that thing is scary as hell.😅

With just a few minor tweaks this ship would fit right into Star Wars