Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Hawker Jumpjet

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The Hawker Jumpjet. is planned to be voiced by *TBA*

History
"You don't have time to think up there. If you think, you're dead."

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The P-55 Hawker Jumpjet was introduced by Andoran aviation company United Aviation in January 1954 as the world's first VTOL aircraft. Before this point, the Voshkod had enjoyed massive air superiority due to their field airstrips and the ubiquitous MiG-15 and MiG-17 jet fighters, which was faster and more manoeuvrable than Aquila' staple F-86 Sabres, P-80 Shooting Stars and F-84 Thunderjets, and more numerous and closer to the front than the Hawker Hunter, the most advanced Andorann fighter around at the time. Though organic Allied air support was arguably superior, with the Stuka Dive Bomber from the Alliance of Hawke comparing favourably to the Soviet Il-10 and Il-20 Sturmoviks and the Longbow consistently outperforming the Mi-4 Hounds, the risk of a sudden strike from a MiG squadron was ever present.

This all changed on 54th Season of the Zephyr, 1954 V.C. when the first Hawker squadron lifted off from a field just five kilometres from the front lines and engaged a larger group of MiG-15 fighters, using their unique manoeuvrability and Rattler missiles, the first heat seeking missiles in history, to devastate three whole squadrons of MiGs with only two losses. With a machine that could land anywhere, change altitudes with frightening speed, and knock out a MiG before it could hope to return fire, the Allied Forces (Aquila, Alliance, Zemuria, Ulthua and Andora) gained air superiority overnight, and the Garlean never succeeded in getting it back.

The Minutemen have salvaged somewhere just over two thousand Hawkers in various states of disrepair, which they have cobbled together into an unknown number of aircraft, all upgraded with a fibre-optic camouflage system along its broad wings originally designed to hide squadrons close to the front lines in Having universally applied this upgrade as well as tuning the engines, the Minutemen Hawker takes to the air once again, a true jumpjet presenting the bizarre image of a plane that can point in one direction while flying in another.