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Since I was a small kid, the A-6 Intruder has always been my favourite aircraft.
The VL A-6L Super-Intruder is an Imperial Lego twin jet-engine, mid-wing carrier based attack aircraft built by Vila Disparador.
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The Super Intruder entered service with the Imperial Navy Aviation in 2020, replacing the original A-6I Intruder and serves alongside the VL-1000 Thanatos Stealth fighter. Since then, it’s the main Strike Bomber and anti-ship aircraft operated by the Imperial Navy aircraft carriers. Each Aircraft Carrier usually carries 50 A-6L Super Intruders, divided in two squadrons with 25 aircrafts each. The Super Intruder can operate in a much greater number of different roles than the more expensive Thanatos Stealth Fighter therefore, it will continue to serve on the Imperial Navy for at least 30 years more.

The Super intruder is largely a new aircraft compared with the previous A-6I Intruder. It’s slightly smaller, 1100kg lighter at empty weight but 4,800 kg heavier at maximum weight than the original Intruder I, thanks to the use of new alloys and the larger bombload. The Super Intruder carries 20 percent more internal fuel, increasing mission range by 30 percent and endurance by 40 percent over the "Legacy" Intruder. The main differences between the old Intruder and the new Super Intruder are the wings and the engines. The Super Intruder uses a Variable-sweep wing design, with 6 hardpoints under the wings, versus four on the A-6I. With the new, much more powerful and economic V-434 jet engines, the Super Intruder can super-cruise and achieve a maximum speed of Mach 2,3 at high altitude. The A-6L is also extremely manoeuvrable and agile at low altitudes; therefore there is an increasing number of Super-Intruder ace pilots with over 50 confirmed victories. The addition of two automatic 37mm ENA-75 heavy cannons (one of the most powerful aircraft cannons ever flown), capable of destroying heavy tanks and aircrafts give the new aircraft a fearsome armament. The Super Intruder is currently considered the best anti-tank aircraft in the Imperial Lego Aerial Forces. Although the Super Intruder isn’t a stealth aircraft, the aircraft relies its “invisibility” by flying extremely low and using very advanced ECMs. The aircraft is also painted with the latest radar absorbing materials.

The Super Intruder has a total of 9 external hardpoints, six under the wings and three under the fuselage. The A-6L can carry and guide 5 hypersonic D.D.N. anti-ship missiles at once. Therefore, it’s a major threat to every enemy warship. It can also carry 5 heavy Standoff Land Attack Missiles. The aircraft is exceptionally tough. Since the previous A-6I wasn’t armoured, the Super intruder hull incorporates over 590 kg of armor and was designed with survivability as a priority, with protective measures in place which enable the aircraft to continue flying even after taking significant damage. Its strong airframe can survive direct hits from armor-piercing and high-explosive projectiles up to 37 mm.One of the main advantages of the Super Intruder has always been its ability to carry a lot of ordnance, both tonnage and variety, to the target.
The aircraft can deliver forty 500kg bombs with pin point accuracy day or night. It also can deliver the Imperial Navy's entire arsenal of available weapons, from bombs to ground attack and air-to-air missiles.
The A-6L also has totally new avionics (including the AN-234 AESA radar) and multi-function cockpit displays – therefore, the Super Intruder can also operate and guide long-range air-to-air missiles like the AA-2042 “Empire´s Spear”. The A-6L still maintains the small, gyroscopically stabilized AR7 turret used on the previous Intruder, mounted under the nose of the aircraft, containing a FLIR boresighted with a laser spot-tracker/designator. With this small turret, the aircraft can make extremely accurate attacks, or use the sensors alone to attack without using the Super Intruder's radar (which might warn the target). The AR7turret also allows the Intruder to autonomously designate and drop laser-guided bombs. There is also an aerial refueling version, the KA-6L. Each aircraft carrier usually carries 3 or 4 of these aircrafts. The KA-6L can also operate defensive air-to-air missiles and perform electronic warfare missions. Additional fuel can be carried with up to five external fuel tanks.

The EA-6L Super Prowler electronic Warfare version is also operational with the Imperial Navy Aircraft Carriers. The aircraft is also armed with two 37mm cannons and it can be armed with defensive air-to-air missiles and Anti-Radar missiles.
Although the Navy and Imperial Marine pilots love the Super Intruder, the Imperial Lego Air Force never liked the aircraft. Although the Imperial Air Force had thousands of A-6 Intruders many decades ago, they currently replaced them with new and more advanced fighters and bombers. Today, Navy Pilots flying the Super Intruder are considered the best ground attack aircraft crews in the world.
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General characteristics: VL A-6L Super Intruder
Mission/Role: Medium Bomber, Precision Bomber, Anti-ship; Ground Attack, Anti-tank, Wild Weasel, Electronic Warfare, Escort, Forward Air Control, Low Altitude Reconnaissance, Aerial Refuelling Platform.
First flight: 21/08/2020
Operational: 21/03/2021
Crew: 2 (pilot, bombardier/navigator)
Length: 15.6 m
Wingspan: 16.1 m
Height: 4.65 m
Wing area: 51.1 m²
Empty weight: 11,530 kg
Useful load: 21,870 kg
Max. takeoff weight: 33,500 kg
Powerplant: 2 × V-434 jet engines, 121.4 kN each with afterburner;
Performance
Maximum speed: Mach 2,3
Range: 7,222 km
Service ceiling: 18,400 m
Rate of climb: 58.7 m/s
Armament
Hardpoints: 9 total: 6 wing and 3 fuselage with 21,170 kg total load;
Rockets:4 FS-1000 rocket pods with 18 90mm rockets each or 6 rocket pods with 4 152mm rockets each.
Missiles:Air-to-air missiles:2 or 4 AA-2020 Valkyria medium-short range missiles for self-defence. 8 or 10 AA-2040 “Empire’s Spear” medium-long range missiles
Air-to-ground missiles:3 (Max: 5) D.D.N. heavy anti-ship missiles; 11 D.D.B. medium anti-ship missiles;13 AT-2009 Imperium anti-tank missiles; 19 AT-2040 “Vulcan” air-to-ground tactical missiles; 5 LG-1000 munitions dispensers missiles; 4 AT-1500 “Titan” heavy air-to-ground tactical missiles;
Bombs:12 “Excalibur” Anti-runway bombs; 4 Valhalla Television-guided glide bombs; 40 500kg bombs;
Various unguided and Cluster bombs, Laser-guided bombs, Napalm, as well as tactical termo-nuclear bombs.
Others:ECM protection pod, Pave Spike Laser designator pod, Buddy refuelling pack or 5 Drop tanks for extended range/loitering time;

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Taken on: February 1, 2013

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