Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-47 "Spearhead"

[jonwil]

Here is a MOC I made of the fictional Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-47 of the Soviet Federation Space forces, Western Alliance reporting name "Spearhead"

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jonwil/mocs/mig1.jpg

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jonwil/mocs/mig2.jpg

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jonwil/mocs/mig3.jpg

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jonwil/mocs/mig4.jpg

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jonwil/mocs/mig5.jpg

It features laser cannons and Space-Space missiles for taking out WAAF (Western Alliance Air Force) Grumman Orbital F-51A Starhawk space fighters. (a MOC I intend to build at some point in the future).

The "Soviet Federation" was formed by the Russians to counter increasing ties between former soviet states such as the Ukraine and the western powers and brings together a number of former soviet states along with friendly states like Iran.

The "Western Alliance" was formed as the successor to NATO after the formation of the "Soviet Federation" by the Russians and is led by the USA.

The name "Spearhead" comes from the NATO practice of assigning "NATO reporting names" to communist (soviet/chinese/etc) military equipment so everyone can easily identify it. Fighter jets used names starting with an F (hence names like the Fishbed, Fulcrum etc) and in my fictional universe, S is used for space fighters (hence "Spearhead")

"Grumman Orbital" is a company formed from a fictional merger of Northrop Grumman Aerospace and Orbital Sciences Corporation (and because I think the name sounds cool)