In the film's fictional world, the only Talons and SR-72s will operate.
The Talon is capable of hypersonic flight with two combined Pulse Detonation/Scramjet engines. As the film's title suggests, the Talon has stealth capability, along with movable, forward sweep, switchblade wings, an internal cannon for close-in fights, and an internal rotary launcher with a wide variety of ordnance, including GAU-12 Equalizer, AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, AGM-88 HARM anti-radiation missiles, AGM-130C air-to-surface missiles called "Blue Ferret" in the film.
The Talon is capable of precise attacks with minimal destruction. Each pilot has a view-screen for each wingman. Controls are streamlined; the computer communicates through voice and projection displays. The Talons had transponders that directly linked with the pilots homebase or a carrier's advanced flight center. The Talon has a self-destruct system in case of system failure as in the film.
F/A-37 unique switch-wing design closely resembles Aircraft with variable forward-sweep wing", issued to Northrop Grumman Corporation in 1999. This patent caused a wave of rumors about actual aircraft build with that design, with fictional name "Switchblade", that was publicized in November 2000 issue of Popular Science magazine. Moreover, according to aerospace journalist Steve Douglass, Northrop Grumman was one of the technical advisors for the Stealth film. Yet another plane sharing design characteristics with the Talon is the VF-19 Excalibur.
The cinema Talons also can perform a front-to-back flip-over (Pugachev Cobra) while in flight, per the Russian Su 37 Flanker-F. However, the Talon does it as a complete 360 roll, at high-G. The game Empire Earth features a fighter called the Talon in the "Digital Age Epoch". It is almost identical to the F/A-37, although it is a white land-based fighter instead of a black carrier-based one.
Technically, the F/A-37 should be called "Talon II", as the name "Talon" has already been assigned to the T-38 trainer aircraft.
China’s Fictional
Fighter Aircraft.
The airframe
of the Space fighter spotted at the Zhuhai Airshow.’
Fighter jet
model appears to be more real, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China's
(AVIC) Ultravic kiosk. This area of Zhuhai contains an entirely fictitious
'space fighter' that looks at least as if it would be more at home in an anime,
if it's not actually based on a particular design, and seems to be solely
intended to promote general interest and investment in Aviation Industry
Corporation of China.
The Future Fighter
significantly enhances broadband’s low observability against many radar types
operating across frequencies. It also reduces the aircraft radar signature from
the side and rear view beyond the head-on aspect.
The airframe
features a large modified diamond-like delta platform with a relatively long
nose section. The wingspan appears to be approximately as long as that of a
J-20. This design provides room for plenty of fuel and a large internal weapons
bay. It also reduces weight.
This means
such a design would offer a long-range, high payload capacity, high speed, and
low observability.
The design
concept is better efficiency via reduced drag for sustained high-speed flight,
and Long distance near space.
One of the
drawbacks of this design could be the difficulty in achieving stability without
vertical tails, which could reduce maneuverability. However, this could be
compensated to some extent via thrust vectoring.
The scope of 'space fighter' and Sixth Generation Aircraft program is much more than a new manned fighter, as it is a broad initiative aimed at creating a system of systems that will include unmanned drones, manned jets, and a new generation of networking technologies.
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