One-man mod. Planed to have over 40 playable factions. Going for realism with units ragin' from as early as late world war 2 to near future units. Mod will be release in the near future, as i plan to release early betas instead of holding on to something that never get released anyway.
Name : SR-71 "Blackbird"
Faction : United States
Division : Airforce
Armament :
None
Class : Aircraft - Huge
Strategic Reconnaissance
Upgrades :
N/A
Bio :
The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" is an advanced, long-range, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft, which was in service with the U.S. Air Force from 1964 to 1998. It was developed as a black project from the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft in the 1960s by the Lockheed Skunk Works. Clarence "Kelly" Johnson was responsible for many of the design's innovative concepts. During reconnaissance missions the SR-71 operated at high speeds and altitudes to allow it to outrace threats. If a surface-to-air missile launch was detected, the standard evasive action was simply to accelerate and outrun the missile.
Bio from Wikipedia.
I'm gonna add Housecolor to the SR-71 Blackbird.
The Blackbird will be a very expansive recon plane for the US and will be built on a special airfield for larger aircrafts. Being one of many "Huge" aircrafts, the SR-71 will work as a spyplane, flying in speeds faster then much smaller interceptor aircrafts or missiles.
My biggest problem now is to figure out how to counter this bad boy.
The Blackbird flies at about twice the height of normal aircrafts, need a huge turn radius and have a huge sight radius. Bet this will work wonders like an advanace artillery scout.
Perfect MUEJEJE good sr71
Outcastone : My biggest problem now is to figure out how to counter this bad boy.
Sr71 : speed 3400
Mig31: speed 3000
no other similar plane ????
How about a F-14 with Phoenix Missiles?
Dude, making Sr71 in game as recon kill any element of defense from other none US faction, create something to kill it! >:D
I will.. something nasty.
DEWs maybe. KH-11s have for all intents and purposes replaced the Blackbird, though. Honestly, accurately inputting this aircraft into the game engine in a buildable form is going to be very difficult if you also want to balance the game.
You should either go for realism or for balance, you can't have both. Yes it's not fair that the US has a high-speed recon plane thats almost impossible to shoot down. It's also not fair that they field stealth aircraft that can invisibly control the skies and destroy enemy units almost at will, but this is reality.
to kill is simple Antiair S400 (this antiair detect the aircraift for long rante , the missile is shot Before the plane happens)
the sr71 have flares? the missile can fail in one % jeje
that is a sexy plane :P
ey outcast can you add flare turbines engine from this plane??
The only thing you would need is a plane that can match the speed of this badboy and then fire supersonic armor piercing highvelocity bullets at it. So maybe create a counter plane that can hunt down this sucker. (but can only shoot ATA) Then to prevent it from being a uber weapon, well at those velocities the plane can't be well armoured so keep the health bar low so the balance is just right;)
To counter it you can add s-300 or s-400 to eastern armies and patriot system to western ones . but do not add house colors to it . it's pure black just with us air force mark on it.
Well you could add an accordingly expensive system just to counter it?
SR-71 is usefull when you have very LONG Range artillery
Im exited now! I always wanted to use a SR-71 in a RTS!