ADF-01 Falken
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| Type | Multirole |
| Manufacturer | Gründer Industries |
| Primary user | Osea Air Defense Force, Aurelia Air Force |
The ADF-01 Falken is a fictional fighter aircraft in the games Ace Combat 2, Ace Combat 5, Ace Combat Zero, and Ace Combat X.
Due to its popularity, plastic models of the plane from Ace Combat 5 are on sale in Japan.
The ADF-01 first appeared as a non-playable enemy aircraft, piloted by the Z.O.E. Commander Ace Pilot, in the game Ace Combat 2. It appeared in the 22nd level "Fighter's Honor" and in the bonus model viewer.
Largely ignored in the ensuing two games, the Falken made a comeback in Ace Combat 5 as an unlockable playable aircraft slightly modified from its first incarnation. Since then, the Falken is poised to become a flagship super aircraft for the Ace Combat series.
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[edit] History
The ADF-01 is made by Gründer Industries, and is based on the ADFX-01 Morgan developed during the Belkan War. In the 15 years that followed, Gründer made at least five variants of the aircraft, including the ADF-01F, several of which were captured by the Osean Federation in the Circum-Pacific War. Aurelia operated ADF-01s in 2020.
[edit] Aircraft Configuration
The Falken is different from any other vehicle in Ace Combat games. The Falken has forward-swept wings, canards, inward-inclined tailrudders, a ventral rudder, and extended engine nacelles with 2-D thrust vectoring(In other words, it can still be on the afterburners in the middle of a turn, which only a few other aircraft can do).
While these aspects of the plane affect its maneuverability, a completely enclosed cockpit that utilizes cameras instead of a plastic or glass canopy, aka coffin mode, gives the pilot full 360-degree field of view via the cockpit's numerous monitors.
Another unique aspect of the Falken's design is its payload storage (84 missiles) . While missiles are carried in conventional "stealth-like" wells along the sides of the engine nacelles, its TLS (Tactical Laser System; 14 shots) special weapon is contained behind and below the cockpit. When the weapon is armed, the entire front of the plane splits along the horizontal axis and moves out of the way for the laser's beam. Ace Combat Zero retains this special payload storage for the TLS but uses pylons if other special weapons are used. In Ace Combat Zero, there weapons recharge time extends past its firing time, but, in Ace Combat 5, the recharge time is much shorter. Thus, it can be fired prior to the completion of the previous shot.
The ADF-01 has in-flight refueling capabilities.
The Falken somewhat resembles the Delphinus series of aircraft from Ace Combat 3, which with similar features such as a peculiar tailplane and no cockpit windows. The Delphinus-3 appears to be most similar, almost resembling the front half of the Falken with its laser deployed and by virtue of their canard configuration. It may be that the Falken's design was adapted into these new futuristic aircraft somewhere between Ace Combats 5 and 3.
Unlike its later brethren, the ADF-01 in Ace Combat 2 carries backwards-firing missiles as a defensive countermeasure and will regularly execute a Cobra maneuver, stopping in midair to make the player overshoot.
[edit] Unlocking the Falken
The Falken is unlocked in Ace Combat 5 by destroying semi-hidden hangar facilities in levels 12A, 12B, 16A, 16B, and 27. To unlock the plane in Ace Combat Zero, the player must obtain all three "Supreme" medals (Supreme Mercenary, Supreme Soldier, Supreme Knight). If the player has Ace Combat 5 save data (on the same memory card that conatins the player's Ace Combat Zero save data), the requirement is relaxed to simply completing the Campaign in Mercenary, Soldier, and Knight styles. If your Ace Combat 4 or 5 is bought in USA your Ace Combat Zero also has to be bought there, same for Europe. To earn the aircraft for Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception the player must accomplish two tasks: first, the player must have cleared every mission version in the game (there are two versions for thirteen of the fifteen missions, and three versions for the remaining two, for a total of twenty-nine branches) and complete the thirtieth mission, only playable once the aforementioned mission clearing has been completed, called Operation X. In it, four Falkens are the last targets of a gauntlet of fighters, and liberally use their TLS and missiles to attack the player and in addition have stealth technology. Since the TLS is so powerful and you can not see the enemy behind you (the area that the AI are most likely to shoot at you with the TLS), the player is at a great disadvantage (but the TLS is fairly easy to dodge at long ranges). To earn the Falken, the player must defeat the flight of four Falkens.
[edit] Paint schemes
- Ace Combat 2
- Solid-colored red
- Ace Combat 5
- Solid-colored red (Osean)
- Solid-colored black (Razgriz)
- Blue camouflage pattern (Special)
- Ace Combat Zero
- Solid-colored red (Ustian)
- Blue camouflage pattern (Mercenary)
- Reflective black (Soldier)
- Green/brown camouflage (Knight)
- Solid-colored black (Special)
- Ace Combat X
- Solid-colored red (Aurelian)
- Blue camouflage pattern (Leasath)
- Solid-colored black (Special 1)
- Green/brown camouflage (Special 2)
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