Killswitch
Variable Fuselage Geometry
Strike Fighter
Jump into a Killswitch!
Pan Spatial Killswitch is available to fly in Modern Warships, the mobile and PC game from Artstorm and and Gaijin Entertainment.
Pan Spatial Designer
Tom Alfaro
Designer’s Notes
First published in 2020, Killswitch is an exercise in extreme variable geometry integration, in a fictional concept design.
The lack of serious integration of low-observable geometry, sensors and communication equipment – compared to readily available examples of IRL aircraft – should be a dead giveaway of i’s place on the spectrum of science and fiction.
However, the final design and realistic details also demonstrate a dead-serious commitment to the exercise of system integration – which I think many people perceive as an intent to create a realistic aircraft.
Modern Warships promotional video for Pan Spatial Killswitch
Killswitch Features
- Delta-wing planform for exceptional cruise range opens up to swept-wing with canards for extreme maneuverability in combat
- Innovative “Shot-Locker” dense-pack launch tubes provide an imposing warload of up to 40 missles
- Rotating-nose optics provide staggeringly wide engagement aspect for directed-energy weapon
- V/STOL via vectored main engine exhaust and auxiliary lift fan
- Kinetic Capacitor flywheel stores excess power for surge usage during combat and launch/landing
- CATOBAR capable for larger payloads
