Hey I don't know when I started to "recreate" the Yellow Jacket for the first time.... must been a year or so.
During this time I started and dismissed several attempts
Some facts so far. The Yellow Jacket weights 30tons - and has two pilots.... everything else is "open" - oh later i had added the idea that it should look like an insect.
So far so good.
the first - was a two seater with sits next to each other similar to black hawk or ka 52...
the railing and the knifes should have been some "protection"
with the Ka-52 in mind i create a second attempt
I positioned the Gauss Rifle at the flank but it didn't looked like a Yellow Jacket should look like.
so tested and tried several things until i had a "uglysect" - this time with a "turret" mount for the gauss rifle
it was to fat and to ugly
so my final attempt - with redesigned 75mm Poland Main C Gauss Rifle - and streamlined turret mount
not so blocky:
I love the look and feel of the latest creation (but I also loved the look and feel of the other attempts before) it looks like an fragile insect.
But I don't know if I should go the path of the later TROs (Yasha, Hawk Moth II, Strix, Red Kite, Aeron) - or the classic helicopter look
I also want to mount some stubby wings for payload (don't think this would look good with the current layout)
Some might ask why the gauss is pointed to the rear?
Well I thought that the YellowJacket is a MechHunter... and in a fragile VTOL you simple don't attack a head on - and it helps to narrow the profile.
The Gauss would usually pointed down and to a side....simple attack run sketch - with a Yellow Jacket model i found in the internet
spotting
diversion missile attacks
attack run
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