"It looks like a VF-31...... Without variable wings, it always feels like something is missing. Ian looked at the second testing machine that had already been built.

While the second machine was being built, Ian, Liphonz, and Linda, who had returned from shopping to join the development team, reworked on the heavy backpack used in the second machine.

Considering the increased weight of the heavy backpack body, the two engines in the legs and the six GN particle jets may not be enough to slow down.

After the revision, the backpack assembly engine of the wing part has been moved to the outermost side of the wing to mount, and it can rotate 360 degrees to enhance the maneuverability of the airframe.

In order to install this new component, the forward-swept wing part of the testing machine No. 2 was modified to a foldable version, and the delta wing part directly took the enormous structural stresses caused by the external components.

In order to prevent the wing from being torn off again by the huge propulsion force, the new backpack assembly uses electromagnetic force, traction beam, integrated structure to stabilize the position, and the traditional physical contact method, with all four links locked to the fuselage.

"Folding...... That's right, the external backpack doesn't have to be mounted on the wing, wouldn't it be nice to fold the forward sweep wing and then install the external thruster? Ian watched as he folded up some of the wings and began to mount a heavy load, and the second machine had a flash of inspiration.

"Mainframe, start repairing Unit One."

"Understood."

Piloted by the B1 robot, the No. 2 aircraft flew to the predetermined airspace along with the exercise target aircraft.

"Switch to remote mode." Ian moved his hands and feet and stepped into the simulator cockpit.

"The fleet arrives at the intended location. The simulated battle begins. Liphonz confirmed the status of both sides, and then announced the start of the exercise.

Ian pushed the throttle valve to the end, and the powerful thrust brought by the eight engines, even with the inertial control device, brought an overload of nearly 4 g to the cockpit.

The inertial control device in the simulated cockpit perfectly simulates the situation in the cockpit, and imparts a 4 g push back feeling on Ian's body.

"Wow, that's tough!"

"Target-mounted missile launches."

Eighty AMM-311, Galaxy's latest short-range air-to-air missiles equipped with exercise warheads, were fired from under the wings of 40 target aircraft.

Ian instantly found a relatively sparse location in the missile net according to the prompts of the onboard AI. Then, the body quickly changed direction, rushed into the missile net, and staggered past the missile rain. Not a single missile was detonated.

“？？？ Did the drill bomb malfunction? Linda turned to look at Liphonz.

"The relative velocity was too great, and the close-quarters fuze did not activate." Liphonz frowned at the real-time data. "And from the current point of view, the maneuverability of the No. 2 aircraft carrying the heavy backpack has surpassed that of the missile."

Attitude-controlled vents under the nose and tail of the second plane, the second plane flipped 180 degrees almost instantaneously, and then transformed into a human form while Ian locked on to all the missiles with the retinal scanning system.

"Shoot as you like!" Ian pulled the trigger hard, and the beam mounted on his arm mixed with Gatling, the GN Vulcan on his head, the twin-mounted heavy laser cannon on his back flipped up, and the phase cannon on the backpack on the wing all fired at the target group in rapid-fire mode.

In just two seconds, the strafing shot down all 80 missiles, quickly transformed into an airplane, and turned to fly towards the target formation.

The 58mm Gatling cannon on the target began to fire at the second plane, and the mini-missiles on the fuselage also fired from time to time.

Ian piloted the second plane to roll through the barrage, dodge, and pull the trigger when the target plane entered the attack envelope, and the phase cannon or laser cannon would use a dense barrage to crash the target machine.

"Cool!" Rushing through the formation of target planes, the second plane pulled up at a large angle and drew a circle in the air, and Ian aimed at all forty target planes again, and chose the weapon as missiles.

After the selection of weapons, all the missile pods were opened.

Ian pressed the launch button, and one hundred and twenty mini air-to-air missiles were launched from the pod, and the white trail smoke flooded the entire No. 2 for a while.

Ian shook the lever slightly, and burst out of the smoke.

According to the program, the target aircraft quickly dispersed, increased the thrust, and began to release jamming bombs.

"It's spectacular." Hundreds of missiles pulling white trajectories pounced on their respective targets according to the distribution of the fire control system.

And each target plane released dozens of orange-red jamming bombs with gray trails in a circle.

Some of the 120 missiles were affected by the jamming bomb, but they locked onto the jamming bomb and collided directly with it and exploded, and some of them successfully found their target and shot down the target plane. Some of them were thrown off by the target plane, and after running out of fuel, they rashly blew themselves up in the air.

"There are only eight machines left." Ian ditched the two empty missile pods, then changed orbit and bit down on a target at six o'clock. Shoot with two Gatling cannons on the payload.

The target plane climbed and slowed down violently at the moment when Ian fired at the shooting site, and when it reached directly above Ian, after firing more than a dozen mini missiles, it turned its nose and pointed at the second plane.

Ian manipulated the body to transform into a G walk form, and the wing-mounted engine rotated 180 degrees to shoot forward, quickly slowing down, and then transformed into a human form, intercepting all the missiles with a cannon, dodging the target plane's shells, and raising his hand to raise his gun to destroy the target plane.

Then it quickly locked on to the remaining seven target planes and emptied all the remaining missiles at once. Let these seven target planes drown in the sea of missiles.

"It feels good." Ian got off the simulator and couldn't get enough of it. "It's different from MS and MA's heavy feel, although it is equipped with a large number of external weapons, but under the offset of the external thruster, it does not affect her relatively light feel. The main thrusters on the legs of the humanoid form add a lot of flexibility to maneuvering, and if you say that when driving the MS, the MS gives the impression of manipulating a marionette driven by the torso. This one feels like you're surfing. As for her most powerful straight-line acceleration ability...... It's like a wild horse. ”

Ian quietly turned off the anti-G system in the test, although it was just a simulated overload, but the feeling of being pressed on the driver's seat by overload was really addictive.

There is also a sensitive and ineffective control system inherited from the YF-19, which further increases Ian's pleasure in operating the YF-35. According to Ian's feelings, it was like flying in the wind.

In addition, there is also an auxiliary AI-ARIEL inherited from yf-19, if the role of the general airborne AI is to confide in the big sister, to assist the pilot in fighter control and avoid the pilot from dangerous operations, ARIEL is a young woman lover in any posture, her characteristic is that she will never care about "what should be done", but will only go to "what you want to do" as the only orientation, and then assist the pilot to do a good job, she will not correct the pilot's behavior, And will only quickly determine the pilot's intentions and then correct the body to fit the effect that the pilot wants (even if it is a wrong, fatal operation), she is so well-behaved and abrasive, no matter which posture you like, she will adjust herself to cater to the fullest, she is wholeheartedly support and spoiled for the pilot, and only wants you to get the feeling of flying into the sky. However, the angels have a demonic side, and when a mismatched pilot makes a mistake, ARIEL will not correct you.

If you make an over-the-top, dangerous, or abnormal maneuver, with ARIEL's cooperation, congratulations, you're dead.

In ordinary airplanes, AI will directly limit the response of the aircraft to such dangerous maneuvers.

This directly led to the fact that whether it was the YF-19 of the year or the current YF-35, it was only a Mustang that could be controlled by super ace pilots.

Generally speaking, if a pilot swings the joystick slightly and controls the fuselage to flip 90 degrees, this action is changed to 19 or 35, and the fighter may have unconsciously rotated for two weeks, which is 720 degrees.

So for the average pilot, 19 and 35 are probably things that discourage them.

Quoting the evaluation of a certain ace pilot with more than 500 crashes, Colonel Takida.

VF-19 is a body that will most intuitively show the quality of a pilot itself, and the designers and test centers will conclude with statements such as "19 is a very sensitive airframe, very difficult to control", but such an evaluation cannot come from the pilot, because if you feel that you can't adapt, it means that your operating level does not match, and once you are matched, 19 will make you feel very comfortable. Therefore, complaining that the 19 is difficult to control is equivalent to self-inflicted humiliation for the pilot.

While Ian was sorting out his driving experience and recording half of the body's performance, Hallelujah, who loved variants, rushed into the universe in the restored No. 1 test machine. He then returned to the Enterprise with symptoms of slight dehydration.

"Ian-san...... I've developed an incredible monster machine again. Hallelujah could only stand on his feet with Mary's support.

Lyle, Neil, and Tieria silently moved away from the One, their former fire supporters/snipers/fire support hands, not super ace drivers. Only for a moment stood in front of the mech, his expression uncertain, and he hesitated to try the mech that Hallelujah called a monster.

"Hoo got it done......" Late that night, Ian and the other three moved their muscles and walked away from the holographic design table.

The three of them pondered in the afternoon, and gave the YF-35 nearly ten versions of the external backpack and modified version.

Eventually, the YF-35 was finalized in two versions on a whim, with the version of the second aircraft tentatively designated the YF-36 and the general variable-sweep wing version tentatively designated as the YF-35.

The YF-35 focuses on adaptability to ace pilots and superior maneuverability in the atmosphere. But to the average pilot, this thing is just a nice piece of.

The YF-36 focuses on versatility, mainly considering multi-model cooperation, multi-functional, multi-versatility, and strong piloting adaptability to board the general pilot.

"It feels good." Ian got off the simulator and couldn't get enough of it. "It's different from MS and MA's heavy feel, although it is equipped with a large number of external weapons, but under the offset of the external thruster, it does not affect her relatively light feel. The main thrusters on the legs of the humanoid form add a lot of flexibility to maneuvering, and if you say that when driving the MS, the MS gives the impression of manipulating a marionette driven by the torso. This one feels like you're surfing. As for her most powerful straight-line acceleration ability...... It's like a wild horse. ”

Ian quietly turned off the anti-G system in the test, although it was just a simulated overload, but the feeling of being pressed on the driver's seat by overload was really addictive.

There is also a sensitive and ineffective control system inherited from the YF-19, which further increases Ian's pleasure in operating the YF-35. According to Ian's feelings, it was like flying in the wind.

In addition, there is also an auxiliary AI-ARIEL inherited from yf-19, if the role of the general airborne AI is to confide in the big sister, to assist the pilot in fighter control and avoid the pilot from dangerous operations, ARIEL is a young woman lover in any posture, her characteristic is that she will never care about "what should be done", but will only go to "what you want to do" as the only orientation, and then assist the pilot to do a good job, she will not correct the pilot's behavior, And will only quickly determine the pilot's intentions and then correct the body to fit the effect that the pilot wants (even if it is a wrong, fatal operation), she is so well-behaved and abrasive, no matter which posture you like, she will adjust herself to cater to the fullest, she is wholeheartedly support and spoiled for the pilot, and only wants you to get the feeling of flying into the sky. However, the angels have a demonic side, and when a mismatched pilot makes a mistake, ARIEL will not correct you.

If you make an over-the-top, dangerous, or abnormal maneuver, with ARIEL's cooperation, congratulations, you're dead.

In ordinary airplanes, AI will directly limit the response of the aircraft to such dangerous maneuvers.

This directly led to the fact that whether it was the YF-19 of the year or the current YF-35, it was only a Mustang that could be controlled by super ace pilots.

Generally speaking, if a pilot swings the joystick slightly and controls the fuselage to flip 90 degrees, this action is changed to 19 or 35, and the fighter may have unconsciously rotated for two weeks, which is 720 degrees.

So for the average pilot, 19 and 35 are probably things that discourage them.

Quoting the evaluation of a certain ace pilot with more than 500 crashes, Colonel Takida.

VF-19 is a body that will most intuitively show the quality of a pilot itself, and the designers and test centers will conclude with statements such as "19 is a very sensitive airframe, very difficult to control", but such an evaluation cannot come from the pilot, because if you feel that you can't adapt, it means that your operating level does not match, and once you are matched, 19 will make you feel very comfortable. Therefore, complaining that the 19 is difficult to control is equivalent to self-inflicted humiliation for the pilot.