“REEEEEET!” A huge pink creature soared over the reservoir- a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade nightmare blimp with wings.(...) The demigods scattered as the winged lady pig swooped down. Her wings ere pink like a flamingo's, which matched her skin beautifully, but it was hard to think of her as cute when her hooves slammed into the ground, barely missing one of Annabeth's siblings. The pig stomped around and tore down half an acre of trees, belching a clod of noxious gas. Then it took off again, circling around for another strike.
-The Last Olympian
While the IPC got the Lancer, the FCI got the Blackjack.
The FCI operated 20 of these in 2034.
1 AIRCRAFT
Main Armament[]
Being an updated Tu-160, the Clazmonian Sow is capable of lifting 88,165lb of bombs or eight Kh-101 cruise missiles into the air. Meaning, carpet bomb an area with twenty-six KAB-1500 3300lb general purpose bombs or smash apart a military base 3000 kilometers away.
KAB-1500[]
Bought from the Russians through the lucrative Tu-160 deal, the FCI has an arsenal of over one thousand of these 3300lb high-explosive general-purpose bombs to toss from their Sows. Each can create devastation within a kilometer of its detonation point.
Kh-101[]
The Kh-101 was also part of the Tu-160 deal. It is able to carry a 1000lb conventional warhead to a target 3000 kilometers away. It is accurate to within nine meters, and is capable of reaching 800mph- Mach 1.1 on its way. This makes it an excellent weapon against large clumps of ground targets.
Upgrades[]
A) Peregrine Falcon AShM
The Peregrine Falcon is a FCI improvement on the Kh-101. Replacing the turbofan with a ramjet , adding a hardened steel shell and implementing a terminal IR seeker, it improves the Kh-101's speed, accuracy and survivability. This makes it a much better weapon against warships, as it can hustle through CIWS fire at Mach 3, shrug off a 20mm round, and smash into a 1-meter-wide target. Meaning, the FCI now has an air-launched anti-ship missile capable of mission-killing a destroyer 2000 kilometers away.
Armor[]
The Clazmonian Sow doesn't have any form of kinetic protection. On the bright side, it has dozens of flare and chaff dispensers, and good, powerful standoff multiband radar jammer.
Propulsion[]
The Clazmonian Sow is powered by four Kuznetsov NK-32 afterburning 3-spool low bypass turbofans with 30,000lb of dry thrust each. In full afterburner, they can provide 55,000lb of thrust, allowing the Clazmonian Sow to sprint at Mach 2. At 600mph, it can cruise for 7,300 kilometers, unleash it's eight Kh-101s, then cruise back to its base.