VF-X-7 Ghost Valkyrie

Program

Airframe designed as a variable fighter based on the Ghost unmanned aircraft. The airframe serves as a lifting body and stabilizes at high speed. Besides the main wings, large quadruple nozzles, it is also equipped with verniers which produce great thrust. (Advanced Valkyrie)

Design Features

Canards can be stored in the nose of aircraft during atmospheric reentry like the head machine guns. Wings fold perpendicular for storage and head is revealed in GERWALK mode. Quadruple nozzles become the legs in the slender Battroid mode.

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Background

• Designer: Shoji Kawamori