[0.33.2] The SuperIfrit KR-67X now with scramjets!

[neat bear]

Have you ever thought it was stupid that the Ifrit had a speed limit of mach 2? We did too so here at Black Pants Legion Aerospace we stole the finest adaptive cycle hybrid engines that includes a scramjet mode and installed it on this beast. Altitude and speed limits are a suggestion at best as this girl can supercruise at mach 2, break mach 1 in a vertical climb, and the icing on the cake when you get above 60k feet and mach 4.5 the computers will switch the engines to scramjet mode and you'll take off like a bat out of hell. The aircraft itself has killed more pilots than the enemy will! If you get vertical oscillations you're not high enough or you're too fast. At 95k feet on the scramjet this baby will break mach 7! At that speed turns are just a suggestion and it's best you slow down first and be very gentle or you'll black out in a split second from G forces! Try the SuperIfrit today only $1 billion and rank 5 required!

https://github.com/Modzer0/NuclearOptionIfritMod/releases

I just wanted to see if I could mod in a plane and while I was at it I decided to make it go faster and remove the speed limits since an F-15 can go mach 2.5 why is a future jet limited to mach 2? Then I gave it more power and altitude. That led to adding a scramjet function that will glow on your HUD when it's active. It is a finicky beast. If you go vertical to 90k feet and try to push the nose horizontal even at mach 1 you will stall and likely go into a flat spin (ask me how I know). Gentle is the name of the game at high speeds, but oh is it fun. It's the KR-67X model in the aircraft selection menu. My speed record in it is Mach 18+

Reserved

[supple nest]

wow, its litteraly orbital bomber now

Karman line jet

bomb with 5 mach

omg

it's very fun

[neat bear]

Hypersonic bomb delivery or your money back!

[supple nest]

but seems game confusing ifrit and superifrits bc. when I add a superifrit in the editor, in the game itself it's a regular ifrit. The same thing happens when I add superifrits to factions

maybe bc of qol

[supple nest]

its litteraly can orbit earth

[sage plover]

o was at 121 max

[supple nest]

real space figher

[sage plover]

yeah lol

i could go higher

[supple nest]

wow

[supple nest]

interesting what is real its service celling

bc its clearly not 25 or even 30km

[sage plover]

ill test it

[neat bear]

Actually don't think it has one once I removed the engine flameout.

[supple nest]

main limit is fuel

we need air refueling for this)

[neat bear]

Next update I'll add 164000ft as that's the max scramjet altitude.

[sage plover]

uhhhhhhhhhh

its 350km now.......

570 and still going

[neat bear]

testing the new version now

[sage plover]

...

[molten gull]

github 404s out

[neat bear]

https://github.com/Modzer0/NuclearOptionIfritMod/releases

New version with an altitude engine cutoff at 168,000ft. It doesn't keep you from going ballistic though.

[molten gull]

that explains why

[neat bear]

Just updated because of the unlimited altitude bug, engines now flame out properly at 168,000ft

[molten gull]

nooooo

i wanted to go to geostationary orbit an nuke something

[neat bear]

A mach 7 nuke from the stratosphere isn't enough?

[sage plover]

there's no service celling😭

casually cruising ant 2672 km rn

[neat bear]

update to the latest build 😛

[sage plover]

i was asked to test previous version tho

[molten gull]

that's exactly why you shouldn't

[molten gull]

nuke from the earth or the moon.

[neat bear]

Intercept ballistic missiles at apogee

[molten gull]

true, however, orbital nuking

[sage plover]

i forgot to screenshot it, but the fastest i got was like mach 17

[flint socket]

also the joints on the wings fail to keep on at higher speeds and g-forces

[glacial kindle]

You should put pics in the main post of your mods

[neat bear]

That's kinda a point the airframe has stress limits which is why I posted that gentle was the name of the game at high speeds. If you're getting vertical oscillations you're too low, or too fast.

[flint socket]

the speed causes me to start going up and down so it sometimes g-locks me and snaps the wing

[neat bear]

You're too low in altitude or going too fast. To go really fast you need to be at 90k feet+ Engines will flame out at 168k feet

Scramjet won't even activate unless you're above 60k feet and mach 4.5+

[worldly tide]

I installed the mod in the plugins folder and nothing's there

[supple nest]

do you have beep ex?

[worldly tide]

Yes I do

[supple nest]

how do you spawn it's? in hangar?

[worldly tide]

I would assume so

But i can't even find the superIfrit in mission editor either

[neat bear]

Not in the mission editor at the moment but you'll be able to spawn it anywhere you can spawn an Ifrit

[late juniper]

“Hey @modern stratus a chicane just popped up on rada-“

https://tenor.com/view/flying-fast-jet-plane-top-gun-gif-15818264

[modern stratus]

"Mach Jesus 250kt in bound"

[mint leaf]

I wonder how fast you could spike a 250kt with this thing

-# absolutely insane mod btw lol

[modern stratus]

[worldly tide]

I tried it on steam deck. Probably why It screwed up

[remote summit]

[worldly tide]

I'm going back home tommorow so I'll try it then

[modern stratus]

lol it's so fast it tore off the airbrakes

[daring prism]

discord hid this from me for one day. which is a day too long

[neat bear]

That's not even half as fast as it could be get about 90k feet at mach 4.5+ and the scramjet will take you to the edge of mach 8. Glide bombs are like sure we'll do mach 7.7 at a target 250nm away.

[supple nest]

It's interesting that the developers made such aerodynamics for such speeds

Its really fells realistic

in mach 8 jet no longer fells like jet, its shell that cannot even turn

[restive walrus]

Clearly we don't need a darkstar when you can just slap some weaker versions of the engines on an Ifrit instead

Comedic mod btw 🔥

[modern stratus]

yeah but the automated flap control system makes it a pain to achieve this

[neat bear]

https://tenor.com/view/challenge-accepted-dewey-duck-ducktales2017-ducktales-escape-to-from-atlantis-gif-20480304

[restive walrus]

wait no don't give the darkreach absurd engines

[neat bear]

https://tenor.com/view/geez-ugh-shaking-head-gif-15547901584294881727

https://github.com/Modzer0/NuclearOptionIfritMod/releases/tag/0.1.2-beta-darkstar

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-lol-evil-halloween-salem-the-cat-gif-4480748

[slender badge]

The DoD called

They want their Darkstar engines back

[modern stratus]

@neat bear is there a way to disable the auto flaps fighting the shear speed when above mach 3?

that or maybe adjusting the strength of all aero surfaces?

[gilded plover]

https://tenor.com/view/daksavedme-scary-cat-laugh-gif-4319701762595295327

[neat bear]

I'll look into it

[neat bear]

Looks like the PID control for the fly by wire system were overcompensating at high mach speeds.

And deploying speedbrakes at high speed at low altitudes exceeded the break point of a fixed joint.

[modern stratus]

oh nice catch man can't wait to see how the fix works

[neat bear]

Had an issue with the higher engine power basically being an explosion behind the plane that threw it out of control. Created a power ramp up to solve that.

[modern stratus]

oh sweet baby jesus Mach 18?

[neat bear]

So asked google how long it would take to circle the earth at that speed: less than 1 hour 50 minutes

[modern stratus]

crosses Ignus diagonally in 2 secs lol

@neat bear another way to maybe perfect the controls of it at higher speeds is to temporarily disable the G-lock to see how the flaps react at different speeds

[neat bear]

It's not the flaps, it's the control surfaces spazzing out because the fly by wire code couldn't handle speeds greater than mach 2. You can disable flight assist, or I've turned down the values on a curve the faster you get.

[modern stratus]

okay sounds good thanks for the work you've done on this mod

[neat bear]

I'm waiting for a Dev to look in here and go ಠ_ಠ

[neat bear]

Someone needs to make a video of two KR-67Xs dogfighting.

[sage plover]

that's almost orbital velocity T-T right here

[worldly tide]

well i made my extreme range test mission for 280km+ anti ship missile tests

all i need to do is slap a KR-67X on it or a hyperion (since it can carry the Scramfrits too)

the problem is

Any superifrit spawned via mission editor turns into a regular ifrit

[gilded plover]

yea

same thing with factories too

[worldly tide]

however

i find that carrier-spawned scramfrits

are fine

[neat bear]

Not figured out how to put them in the editor yet, working on it.

[supple nest]

so, AI can go to 50km and drop nuke with M9?

or ai can't use it propely?

it's be very fun gun fight at stratosphere at mach 7

[worldly tide]

I can't put them in the editor.
Any superIfrits are replaced with actual ifrits in the mission editor

So the only way to spawn one in is via a carrier or airbase

And I'm not even sure how AI picks and chooses which aircraft to spawn, so that may not even work

[neat bear]

I'll have to read into the AI code for the Ifrit. If anything it would try to fly it like a standard Ifrit just faster. It doesn't have the behavior to climb to 60k feet and go fast enough for the scramjet to light off. I tried adding thrust to a missile but the targeting logic just couldn't deal with the speed and they would miss. I'm still looking into adding it into the editor.

[worldly tide]

This mod is amazing either way

[supple nest]

yea

but if ai will use it this be realy cool

[flint socket]

I think what it would need is a higher PID [where its going to be and the target will be] if possible, though I know nearly nothing about blender code

[flint socket]

@neat bear this mod doesn't got picked up by anticheat

[modern stratus]

if I remember correctly it only works if you host the match or if the host of said match or dedicated server has the mod active as well

[flint socket]

ah good, worried about that since it uses just the model of the KR-67

[fast trail]

If you mean the server list shows up but some of my mods and unrestricted weapons doesn’t they have a feature built into the mod to disable multiplayer

[neat bear]

New update has it appearing in the game editor.

[tall cave]

i suggest nerfing it to the mach 10 limiting acceleration BC IT IS TOO POWERFUL AND UNPLAYABLE

[modern stratus]

fly at mach 2 within 20km alt and position yourself 100km away from your target then once you are nose on with said target go full throttle and send it towards your intended target

[neat bear]

Have zero issues flying and using it along with my entire group. Doing devastating airstrikes with bombs coming in at mach 10+ If you go hypersonic understand you are not going to be making turns so you line up on target climb, drop munitions, go past the target, decrease altitude into thicker air and reduce speed then turn. You probably don't even have the darkstar mode active in the options. That'll push you to Mach 18+ on afterburner. There's also this device called a "Throttle" if you reduce it the engine will produce less thrust. We've been dogfighting with them at low altitudes as well having a blast.

[restive walrus]

I accidentally flew into space.

Uncontrollably, at that.

this thing literally will go full vertical at mach jesus into space if you want to 😭

(also managed to snap the airbrakes off cleanly)

[neat bear]

Make sure you have the latest version, the airbrakes are essentially unbreakable now.

[vague pike]

perhaps I may interest you:

[modern stratus]

https://tenor.com/view/space-tim-curry-gif-7935778

[trail halo]

PALA Space program before GTA 6

[daring prism]

i tried this and went so high up the sky went blue again like simpleplanes or whatever

[idle patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-gif-22971269

[jolly kernel]

Doesnt work in multiplayer

Why?

[modern stratus]

only if the host has the mod turned on and even then for others to use it they would need to have the mod as well

[jolly kernel]

Stilldidnt work

[flint socket]

I think the thing causing shaking at high speeds is the oscillation of the rear tail fins

[woeful onyx]

Superdark reach when?

[jolly kernel]

İts shape doesnt even look like a fast plane

Wings too long

Would need a fully modified plane

[molten gull]

physics says you are correct, however, mach 10 darkreach

[neat bear]

It's the PIDs in the flight stabilization system freaking out at high speed. Slow down and/or fly higher

[neat bear]

Have you already gone into the config and activated darkreach mode?

Because if you haven't it gives you the equivalent thrust of an upper stage of a rocket.

[neat bear]

https://github.com/Modzer0/NuclearOptionIfritMod/releases
This should work to fix the server issue.

[jolly kernel]

Thankssssz!

[tight dome]

KR-67XXX Super Duper Ifrit when? I need scramjets on takeoff!!!!!!!

[neat bear]

A friend an I are looking how to add a rocket into the game with the KR-67X being the upper stage. You launch, it'll take you horizontal around 140k feet, seperate leaving you with enough speed to light off the scramjet and then the rocket will turn around and land. I can not say enough about how dramatically more complicated this is than just editing an aircraft. It's also down the todo list with some more realistic electronic warfare, and droppable electronic warfare pods coming up first.

[tight dome]

That sounds pretty hard to do, but if you were to pull it off, that would be sick

[smoky bronze]

Space Ifrit

[broken aspen]

Its game over when we get space Medusa, It may be the closest we get to satellites.

[iron bluff]

why does it switch to kr67a when i spawn in?

[solid harbor]

is this multi compatable

[sick wharf]

"GPO-N (250kt) failed on 389251474 G impact."

[supple nest]

Regular bombs don't care)

[sick wharf]

yeah

and they have JTAC

[neat bear]

Working on a mod with some Ifrit variants. The KR-67EX which can carry additional air to air missiles and has an upgraded radar and engine. And The KR-67R which is a pure recon plane. The front weapon bay is taken up by the camera which has a 50NM range and it has extra stealth features. At altitude (80k feet) you can fly right over an enemy fleet and they won't see you while you see everything. You can fire a weapon from the bay but it will spike your RCS, also no gun, but level at about 80k feet it is possible to reach Mach 5. No scramjet on this model.

The Ex being inspired by the F15EX of course

[real coral]

Awesome

[stoic bluff]

How turn on SCRAMJET mode?

[modern stratus]

when you are above 24km altitude and above mach 4 it automatically activates

[flint socket]

max speed before starting to disassemble itself [used piledriver boosters from mincracktyler's mod]

[worldly tide]

as of march 18th 2026, this issue is still ongoing.
still waiting for Hound to figure out the editor

[neat bear]

Sorry haven't had time to work on it.

[agile galleon]

how do you guys even climb to scram height? ive tried slowly climbing in a shallow spiral and a shallow slope, but anytime i reach 21km, my plane turns into a 1000mil beyblade

i use the smallest input corrections and nothing ive tried helps

[neat bear]

You're being too gentle take a 45+ degree angle, full throttle gently level out at flight altitude.

[agile galleon]

wurd

thanks

[neat bear]

It can break mach 1 in a vertical climb, plenty of power.

[novel vector]

does its possible after reach alomst 10 machs to not become a bird and destroy from speed

yeah forgot i guess i found solution

[smoky summit]

no, why would it be cheater

[azure veldt]

any chance this gets uploaded to NOMM?

@neat bear

[flint socket]

download it yourself you bum [im mean]

[azure veldt]

i dont want a mix of file based mods and NOMM mods

[urban bolt]

ay the dome dot work no more

[neat bear]

The SuperIfrit KR-67X now with scramjets! [Retired]

[austere berry]

DANG THIS MOD WAS COOL TOO FR.

[neat bear]

It will return later but will take time. Others are adding airframes so this will likely become an armed Darkstar mod.

[daring prism]

what about a scramjet enabled AB-4?

[austere berry]

BRUH THIS WOULD BE AWESOME FR

[flint socket]

literally just the darkstar tho

but without the full wing coverage aka it will probably have lower drag ratio at speed

[austere berry]

i want that fr tho

[daring prism]

like the darkstar but good

[neat bear]

https://github.com/Modzer0/NuclearOptionIfritMod/releases/tag/v0.2.0

[0.33.2] The SuperIfrit KR-67X now with scramjets!

[neat bear]

Submitted to NOMM

[fresh swallow]

ooooo neat

was looking forward to being able to send cluster bombs at mach jesus through the atmosphere

[neat bear]

Just wait something wicked this way comes

[fresh swallow]

cool

[neat bear]

The AB-4X just dropped

[fresh swallow]

wait really?

[neat bear]

really really

[raven ingot]

Note, do not shoot your gun going mach 8 at 76000 ft. You WILL shoot yourself down

[marble kestrel]

I randomly exploded and I think I went to fast

[marble kestrel]

I did that too

[slow dock]

gotta love alt tabbing for 2 mins and forgetting to pause

[restive walrus]

As said before:

[gleaming nexus]

I have hit mach 11 with this thing before

its stupid, but funny: Hehe mach 8 cluster bomb (it has a few issues with QoL)