VanillaX – Airforce Escalation (unofficial vanilla+) (WIP)

This is a spinoff of vanilla+. It includes aircraft I modelled myself with my best effort yet. I hope you enjoy the mod and ask me for tips. I take any comments to improve my mod.

Credits:
Sofa: I give my thanks to him for the asset pack.
Larper: Encouraging me and taking time to say what I need to improve.

(updates coming later, improving the aircraft’s animators, weapons, etc.)

explanation:

Strike Fighters
Thaidus: The fighter is equipped with 8x LGM for strike missions that require a high loitering time to strike the enemy from afar while also defending itself with a 20mm and AAMs in close encounters.

Temper: After the eagles struck one of the Unions airbases they decided to make a new program called the NVF (Next-gen,Vengence,Fighters) and the Temper was like an X-02S Wyvern with the elerudder and canards folding down to reduce drag. It has 8x LGM to strike from a distance like the THAIDUS.

Multi-role Fighters:
Precisioner: The Eagles really needed a multi-role fighter, so the Eagles decided to grab the Hussars’ armament and increase its amount of munitions while also adding a WSO seat to defend the aircraft and strike ground units.

Horizon: Ravens were still in the phase of the NVF and decided to experiment with forward-swept wings, and it gave the aircraft more maneuverability than a normal fighter, so they abused it and gave it heavy armament to give the eagles nightmares.

Stealth Fighters:
Night Stryker: Eagles do have an imagination and decided to experiment reducing the radar cross section of the aircraft, so they created an air dominance fighter with Joint Strike Missiles to strike both ground, sea, and air. The aircraft was also equipped with experimental QAAM, and what came out was a fighter that no one wants to come near unless you have a 20mm MG.

Nyght Stalker: Ravens wanted to compete against the Night Stryker, so they made a temu copy of the aircraft and took terabytes of the aircraft’s blueprints, Joint Strike Missile, and QAAMs. So they decided to make it look like they didn’t take terabytes of info and created their own design, and the prototype looked like the Night Stryker, but with canards, but not sharing the info, the union quickly scrapped it and made the design you see today.

Penetrator Bombers:
Landcaster: The bomber could penetrate through enemy defenses and destroy most vehicles with its GPB’s, ASM, and small bombs. Though its cost is more than the Strat bombers, it is supposed to destroy frontline defenses, so the Strat bombers could destroy it from above. In 1986, variable-sweep wings made it easier to travel to the front lines, so the bomber could strike the first defense.

Valanx: Its design is a weird design, made before the Landcaster. The Valanx had the same role as the Landcaster. Though this design was made to land in rugged terrain and last longer than normal aircraft in operation.

Stealth Gunships:
Evictor: The gunship is an experiment gone correct and is not used often but is effective in clearing out frontline aircraft with its armed qaam’s. Replaced by the Mangonel gunship, the Evictor gunships would travel during dark missions with the Night Strykers to strike bases like Cape Rainy assault (Ace Combat 7, Mission 14).

Wasp: Though its properties match the Evictor, its main proposal is in main-line defense to strike targets first, with the Hornet gunships and fighters being useful in clearing the Eagles’ multi-role fighters and bombers.

Stealth Fighter Bombers:
Saube: The Saube is the earliest stealth aircraft made by the Eagles, being more stealthy than the Night Stryker and the Integrator stealth bomber. The Saube is equipped with its most advanced bomb at the time, which is the GBP, which strikes the enemy before they notice. Fire-and-forget Missiles were equipped later on due to the amount of space left in the Saube.

Nagade: The Nagade is also in the NVF program, which one of their experiments has succeeded in and made stealth possible due to the lack of heat signature and vertical stabilizers inverted on the X-axis. Equipped with their GBP’s and later on added side bays to store Fire-and-forget Missiles.

C-RAM Truck:
Bird-Strike: The name for the C-RAM truck was picked by the Federation of the Eagles. The argument over the name against Congress and the Federation was crazy, and they realized it’s just a name 🙏. The C-RAM truck is their main air defense being beside the SPAAs.

Industran: The C-RAM is used mostly for convoy defense with mobile SAM batteries and SPAA. The C-RAM used to have proxy rounds, but later strategic bombers began to appear, so they shifted to a long-range round approach like with their carrier CIWS.

Ground Attack:
Calvary: Used in most escorts for ground attacks. It’s used in heavy altercations with battles between the Union (They used nuclear threats and IRBM Silos as a flex). In normal battles, the Onager is used due to its being cheaper due to the amount of armament.

Ragnar: This is also used in heavy altercations with the Federation striking all their ground targets. The design is particularly weird due to it being like a brand-new ground attack aircraft they are testing.