the Sky Sweeper Jet

The Sky Sweeper Jet (not the original Sky Sweeper, used by the Battle Force 2000) is a small stealth fighter designed similarly to the B-2, but, you know, smaller. It's highly diminutive, giving it even less of a radar signature than its ancestor (whose 'footprint' was already pretty small).

Of course, the main feature of the Sky Sweeper Jet isn't its veritable radar invisibility. No, this thing is built with espionage in mind, and can launch an incredibly small air vehicle with Cobra markings on it (for stealthy insertions or the like).

Bear in mind that this is the second version of the Sky Sweeper Jet. This one modified the decals and insignia on the plane to be even less conspicuous than before, and changed the color of the spy plane to gray, instead of red (along with upgrades to a lot of its electronics).

The Sky Sweeper Jet has these vehicular characteristics:

Communications Array: the Sky Sweeper Jet is equipped with an extremely powerful, gigahertz-frequency, frequency-wobbler radio system. This makes for rank value 40 communications power (with a 1,000 mile range) that has rank value 30 signal encryption - not bad at all, that.

Flight: the primary characteristic of the Sky Sweeper Jet is that it is an aircraft. The 'flying wing' design of the Sky Sweeper Jet allows it to fly in a stealthy manner, doing so at speeds that top out just over the speed of sound (750 miles per hour, or rank value 200 flight).

Machine Guns: on each side of the Sky Sweeper Jet's cockpit lies a machine gun. These guns are always fired in tandem, and will inflict rank value 30 Piercing damage in a short burst of fire, raised to rank value 40 Piercing damage in a sustained burst of lead.

Missile Launchers: the Sky Sweeper Jet has two missile launchers, each hidden within the frame of the craft until secret panels open up (to maintain its stealth). These missiles inflict the damage listed below when fired singly, raised by +1 RS when both strike a target at once:

Radar Array: the Sky Sweeper Jet has a radar unit, but usually depends on passive radar signal detection in order to preserve its stealth capabilities. When active however, its radar can detect targets with rank value 20 ability, functioning within a 100 mile range.

Spy Plane: instead of holding bombs, the bomb bay of the Sky Sweeper Jet contains a very small aircraft, almost a micro-jet. This vehicle only has two front-mounted, linked machine guns (-1 RS to those listed above), and is highly fragile.

But then it's even smaller than a Firebat, essentially being a sealed, sled-like vehicle with small wings in the rear to act as control surfaces, and a powerful jet to push it through the air. The Sky Sweeper Jet's spy plane has these vehicular statistics:

Stealth: the very shape of the Sky Sweeper Jet, along with the placement of its engines, its 'black ball' radar absorbing paint and heat-dispersing geometry affords it considerable 'invisibility' against radar systems, shielding the craft from such with rank value 40 capability.

Extra Goodies:

Gi Joe directories featuring a version of the Sky Sweeper Jet: