The A-12 Avenger 2 a cancelled carrier based stealth bomber
The A-12 Avenger 2 was designed to replace older A-6 Intruders and used the same General Electric F414 powerplant used in the F-18s which was also suppose to be used in the A-6F Intruder 2 but due to multiple problems the aircraft was cancelled in 1991 and the subsequent legal fallout wasn’t resolved until 2014.
The A-12 Avenger 2 was to have four internal weapon bays with the outer having two AIM-120 AMRAAAM or AGM-88 HARMs while the outer bay was to have an unknown number of hardpoints (Yeah I’ve not been able to find out exactly how many hardpoints this aircraft was suppose to have) for Unguided Mark 82 LDGP munitions or laser guided GBU-10 Paveway 2 and probably later Satellite-guided GBU-38 JDAMs.
The model is quite well designed credit to W978SP2 for the awesome model as its looks very much like the concept art for this unbuilt aircraft which would have been interesting as no-one had tried to make an Aircraft Carrier based Stealth Fighter and frankly cancelling it was a damn shame
I find the Canopy design is quite interesting as I’d expected a single canopy design and the inlet are a unique design as the only over designs that use this inlet design are the V-Bomber jets
I wonder that with Ace Combat’s Strangereal’s advanced technology setting which has a 20-30 leap over us that the A-12 Avenger 2 entered operational use but would she still be active in 2020 strangereal honestly I doubt it but then again the obsolete F-117A Nighthawk was still active in 2019 with the Eruseans.
If the A-12 Avenger was ever used as a playable attacker in Ace Combat then it maybe would’ve had an internal cannon and missile in one of her internal bays and unknown number Air to Air Missile or the most likely choices for an attacker the Long-Range Air to Ground Missile & Unguided Bomb and Guided Penetration Bomb
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