CCPI-15 “reaper” fighter

The CCPI-15 colonial fighter nicknamed “reaper” is the leading military jet in both atmosphere and space flight. The main developer of the aircraft is CCPI (colonial caollective production industries) and the same producer that produced The viper mk1,2,3 and 7 constructed both the avionics, the front section and the wings while an unkown producer produced the engines and the mid-rear section of the aircraft and the electronics other than the avionic systems
== origin ==
the fighter is proposed by the 12 colonies of kobol at the end of 2037 as a space and air superiority fighter and to also be capable of serving stealth reconnaissance without changing the design to a large extent. This aircraft is also to be proposed to reach Mach 7 hypersonic as it‘s average cruising. the project is called “project reaper” and the reason behind all of the proposals was a Project to replace the aging viper Mk VII. the aircraft designer was to a company called "colonial collective production industries" or CCPI for short. The lead designer for that company wished to remain annonymous for an unkown reason but is a, renowned designer of the company itself. The conp also cooperated with the company that also designed snd made the viper series as they have experience on designing space-borne aircraft and cooperated with the vlarian company of erik and vlad for a brief period of time before it‘s country of origin, vlaria was handed over to the Deniksol High Command. There were design concepts with different designs the design that nearly was approved by the design administration bureau was a design that continued on the short wing and stuby short frame design. The only reason why the design was denied in the final stage was that the project will be a base of new technologies and the current frame cannot support the said technological innovations that the final design required. The technology that the aircraft has, was developed by an unkown company in a unkown facility. The aircraft also had many variants the most popular variant is the JF/02 variant which is a variant that improved on the Space combat capabilities of the standard design however sacrificed atmospheric maneuverbility. 
== development ==
after final approval by the desin administration bureau, a mock up aircraft was made at a air force base located in picon. The mock up was made hollow with the exterior being made from civilian-grade titanium. With a landing gear prop. With functional suspension. After the mockup was made the engines were fitted along with their thrust vectoring systems. And then the avionics were fitted. The computer that controls the weapon systems were not fitted to the fighter due to the computer was still under development when the mock up had thr engines,thrust vectoring and the avionics. The central computer was fitted at The beginning day of 2038 and was shown to the goverment in a test flight. The test flight was carried out on a air base located in the capital planet of the 12 colonies of kobol the government requested that the Space test flight will be carried out on 3 bwmc weeks.
== Competition ==
though the viper-like design was Denied the company that designed the Denied design continued testing without the governments approval. The testing of said aircraft was tested in atmospheric orbit to see how effective the viper design really is when it comes to atmospheric flight and it’s S/VTOL capabilities. The design was shown to the government at the same time that the research on the approved designs space flight capabilities. The government was still impressed of the denied design And wanted to see what would happen when competing against the approved final design at the same date where the approved final design‘s space flight test.
== 2nd phase of the competition ==
when the date has come to test the approved final design‘s capabilities space flight perofrmance, the denied design was shown at the location where the Approved design was going to be tested at space flight. At the scorpia spaceyards. The design administration bureau requested that both fighters compete against each other with dummy rounds in space combat. To see which design is effective and that to prove either the new design will be standard in all future colonial craft or that the old design is still effective to beat Any new design made. The approved design easily won against the denied design due to technology and superior engines and RCS thrusters with the thrust vectoring system that past aircraft din’t have. Atmosphere combat was not to be tested due to the flaws in the viper design when in atmosphere especially with short wing span that makes lift harder and drag much more likely. Due to the short wing span. The new design was chosen over the old one by the DMB. And mass construction began.
== mass-production phase ==
shortly after the choosing, the DMB and the MAPMB ordered all militarial factories of all companies to shift from the viper mk VII to the new fighter and it’s variants. The government also ordered CCPI to fit much more advanced Avionics and a Saturn class small starbase like computer however only shrunken to fit into the frame of the fighter, which increased weight that reduced the maximum speed of the fighter from Mach-9 to Mach-7 In the stock variant. The main financial backer being the 12 colonies of kobol with it Being 75% of the overall funding with 15% being what remains of the Romulan star empire and 10% from several former vlarian fed planets That requested for independence during the vlarian-ESRO war. The construction phase was separated to 5 Phases. from different companies working in cooperation with the first phase being the making and the purchasing of the computer and the avionics from one company and shipped to the main assembly plant. Then that main assembly plant is home to several already made frames which where the computer and the avionics will be fitted to. (idk if the avionics are then computer of an aircraft or that a separate computer is required,) the outer hull will be made and fitted onto the frame. The weapon pods and the landing gear are also fitted onto the aircraft. The interior will also be completed after the weapon pods and the landing gear were fitted, and the aircraft will be shipped to the purchased nation.
== upgrades and further development ==
the first combat capable CCPI-15 fighter which had only anti-ground attack capabilities was declared ready by the colonial space/air force of the 12 colonies At 2038. The mark 1 dedicated interceptor craft began operational test and evaluation at the same time where the first combat capable aircraft was made. The CCPI-15 fighter program is also conducting eustainment and upgrade development, with early test models being gradually upgraded to the standard anti-ground attack version and the interceptor version of the aircraft. during mid-2038
the CCP-15 fighter is expected to be both upgraded and make different variants of the fighter during it’s long lifetime. The first variant with being the Anti-ground attack variant being decomissioned in exchange for a new light-medium aircraft was replaced with both the new bomber and the air superiority multi role aircraf. but however, the program was lacking a dedicated space fighter variant to fill up the lacking numbers of the viper mk 7 and finally replace the viper mk3, the interceptor version is capable of space flight however, does not have RCS thrusters which makes the craft not be able to manuever in space combat, the developer of the aircraft has been requested by the government to develop another space variant as the previous space variant that was tested at scorpiq shipyards was not as agile compared to the viper series of spacecraft. And had too much avionics that were for atmospheric flight.Category:Human Starships
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