Chronicle Technology: 01a~q Variable Fighter

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01p Variable Fighter

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Variable Fighter Development History 4: The Super High-Efficient VF, the appearance of the YF-24 Family

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01q Variable Fighter

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Variable Fighter VF family line diagram

Solid Arrow: directly decended airframe
Dotted Arrow: airframe that has received [inherited] the influence of technology, etc..
Red Square: Development / Production period
Blue Square: Design Fabrication

* This is a family line diagram that is based on the information that is established for 2059.

[Author's note: following organization is by horizontal column, with pink section following.]


VF-3000 Crusader
Unknown
Stonewell / Bellcom



VF-0 Pheonix
Completion of the No. 1 craft in December 2004.
Northrop Gruman / Stonewell / Shinsei

VF-X
Commencement of trial manufacturing in 2006.
Stonewell / Bellcom / Shinakasu Heavy Industry / Sentinal

VF-1 Valkyrie
Completion of the mass produced No. 1 craft in November, 2008.
Stonewell / Bellcom / Shinakasu Heavy Industry / Sentinal

VF-X-4
Unknown
Unknown

VF-4 Lightning III
Start of mass production in February, 2012.
General Galaxy

VF-5000 Star Mirage
Start of mass production in 2020.
Shinsei Industry

VF-X-11
Unknown
Unknown

VF-11 Thunderbolt
Start of mass production in 2029.
Shinsei Industry

YF-19
Start of development in 2034
Shinsei Industry

VF-19 Excalibur
Adoption of this configuration in 2041.
Shinsei Industry

YF-24
Start of the development plan in 2040.
Shinsei Industry / General Galaxy

YF-24 Evolution
Approval of the plan to prepare for the adoption of this configuration in 2057.
Shinsei Industry

VF-25 Messiah
Start of the test run in 2059.
Shinsei Industry / L.A.I.


VF-X-10
Unknown.
Stonewell / Bellcom

VF-9 Cutlass
Start of mass production in 2022
General Galaxy

VF-14 Vampire
Start of mass production in 2028
General Galaxy / Messi [Messhii]

YF-21
Start of development in 2034.
General Galaxy

VF-22 Sturmvogel II
Adopted as a special operations craft in December, 2042.
General Galaxy.

VF-27 Lucifer
The maiden flight of the prototype on December 11, 2057.
Guld [Garudo] Works



SV-51
Unknown.
Sukhoi / Israeli Aircraft Industries / Dornier

SV-52
Unknown.
Sukhoi / Israeli Aircraft Industries / Dornier


V-BR-2
Unknown.
Unknown.

VA-3 Invader
Unknown.
Northrop / Gruman

VF-17 Nightmare
Start of mass production in 2037.
General Galaxy.

VF-171 Nightmare Plus
Maiden flight in 2046.
General Galaxy.

VF-171EX Nightmare Plus EX
Deployed in 2059.
General Galaxy / L.A.I.



VA-X-3
Unknown.
Unknown.

VB-6 Koening Monster
Start of development in 2030.
Shinakasu Heavy Industry / Northrom / Gruman.


Pink Box:

Details of the unknown craft:

Fieos Valkyrie
Unknown.
Unknown.

Stampede Valkyrie
Unknown.
Unknown.

VF-X-7 Ghost Valkyrie
Unknown.
Unknown.


The Transition of Variable Fighters
The effectiveness of variable fighters that had been developed in order to oppose giant aliens, was actually proven in Space War I.  After the war, the space emigration according to the Mankind Seeding Plan commenced, and variable fighters are employed as the main escort of the fleets.  Moreover, a lot of specialized variable craft for specific missions, such as variable attacker, variable bomber and so on, were also invented [created].  And then, in the latter half of the 2050's, a further possibility of manned craft was found by the appearance of an airframe that put ISC to practical use, and VF development entered a new phase [step, stage].

Caption:
As the reorganization of VF develops advanced in the 2010's, the two companies of Shinsei Industry and General Galaxy came to bear the core of VF development.


#1 The Super Nova Project
Shinsei Industry's YF-19 and General Galaxy's YF-21 are put into competition in a plan whose purpose is to develop the successor of the VF-11.  The YF-19 configuration is adopted as the successor.

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It is a project that demanded a high-performance that drew a line between the AVF and previous VFs, with such things as pin point barrier, active stealth, folding on it's own, and so on.


#2 The YF-24 Family
The YF-24 is the result of the Next Generation VF Research Plan by Shinsei Industry and General Galaxy.  The YF-24 Evolution is an original development and completion of the YF-24 by Shinsei Industry.  The VF-25 and VF-27 were created [invented] based on the design (of the YF-24 Evolution).

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The VF-25 and VF-27 are sister craft with concepts that differ.  The VF-25 is a craft that stresses manueverability, aerodynamics, and so on, and the VF-27 is a craft that stresses the output that is a response to cyborgs, firepower and so on.