Blanca the English Electric Lightning

My New Jetsona OC Blanca isn't she just chubby? =3

Bred orginally for English Service Blanca was sold to the Saudi Arabians and enslaved into their military. Treated very badly by her new owners she eventually succumbed to the ways of the eastern Dragon and willingly fought for them going after Iraqi Air force MiGs and Even the United States.


General characteristics

Crew: 1
Length: 55 ft 3 in (16.8 m)
Wingspan: 34 ft 10 in (10.6 m)
Height: 19 ft 7 in (5.97 m)
Wing area: 474.5 ft² (44.08 m²)
Empty weight: 31,068 lb (14,092 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 45,750 lb (20,752 kg)
Powerplant: 2 × Rolls-Royce Avon 301R afterburning turbojets
Dry thrust: 12,530 lbf (55.74 kN) each
Thrust with afterburner: 16,000 lbf (71.17 kN) each

Performance

Maximum speed: Mach 2.0 (1,300 mph, 2,100 km/h) at 36,000 ft. 700 KIAS at lower altitude
Range: 850 mi (1,370 km) Supersonic intercept radius: 155 mi (250 km)
Ferry range: 920 mi (800 NM, 1,660 km) 1,270 mi (1,100 NM,[5] 2,040 km) with ferry tanks
Service ceiling: 54,000 ft (16,000 m) zoom ceiling >70,000 ft
Rate of climb: 20,000 ft/min (100 m/s)
Wing loading: 76 lb/ft² (370 kg/m²)
Thrust/weight: 0.78

Armament

Guns: 2× 30 mm (1.18 in) ADEN cannons
Hardpoints: 2× under-fuselage for mounting air-to-air missiles, 2x overwing pylon stations for 260 gal ferry tanks and provisions to carry combinations of:
Missiles: 2 De Havilland Firestreak or 2× Hawker Siddeley Red Top

Saudi Mk 53s and Mk 55s were sold on the basis of having "multi-role" capability. As a consequence the armament fit within the RSAF included provision for two wing-mounted Matra rocket pods and a single nose-mounted (drop-down door) SNEB rocket pack. Additionally the underwing mounting points were also "bomb capable" up to 500 lb per wing. In an innovative extension of the multi-role capability, the Red Top missile pack could be detached and replaced with a modified version which incorporated a rotating Vinten Vicon camera reconnaissance pod. This pod was configurable to both high- and low-level roles, where in "high level", it used two "split vertical" Vinten F95 cameras and in "low level", it used a five-camera, wide-angle configuration (one forward facing, two split vertical and two horizontal oblique). Most elements of the multi-role capability, although not known to have been used in anger, did feature prominently within periodic RSAF training programmes. The one exception being the reconnaissance role at Dharhan air base which was used to obtain "sitrep" during civil disturbances around Qatif in the Eastern Province of Saudi in the late 1970s during the overthrow of the Shah of Iran.