Killswitch

Variable Fuselage Geometry
Strike Fighter

Two Pan Spatial Killswitch advanced combat aircraft are flying in close formation. One is in extended-fuselage configuration; the other in closed-fuselage configuration.
A Pan Spatial Killswitch takes off from a carrier ski jump. Its engine nozzles are tilted partly downward to provide additional takeoff lift.

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.

Portrait of Tom Alfaro in a small private aircraft. He is wearing aviator sunglasses and a flight comm headset.

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
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