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Si-47 Leopard | |
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Vehicle in Just Cause 2 | |
Type | Jet fighter |
Weapons | Dual miniguns and rocket pods |
Rarity | Pretty common at military airports |
List of owners | Panau Military A race owner |
Top speed (km/h) | 353.97 |
Top speed (mph) | 219.95 |
The following statistics are from the official strategy guide. | |
Top Speed | 70 |
Acceleration | 75 |
Armour | 60 |
Handling | 70 |
The Si-47 Leopard is an airplane in Just Cause 2.
Appearance[]
The Si-47 Leopard is based on the British Aerospace Harrier II and McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II strike aircraft, but unlike the Harrier, it does not have vertical take-off and landing capabilities. A conventional landing is theoretically possible, but the ranges of speeds at which the Harrier can do this are very limited. Another difference from the real-life counterpart is that when the landing gear is retracted, they fold facing to the plane, instead of folding backwards. Interestingly, the landing gear housings on the rear of the wing are still visible. The aircraft also still uses the same design of rotating exhaust nozzles used in vertical takeoff and landing as the main exhaust, despite them being fixed in game and only used for normal flight.
It's available in 4 color-schemes, each with two tones of similar colors:
- Brown / beige - At desert bases.
- Olive green / beige - At desert bases.
- Green / light green - At jungle bases.
- Red / different red - Races.
It is the smallest fighter jet in Just Cause 2.
Performance[]
Si-47 Leopards are very agile and turn quicker than most planes in Just Cause 2. This plane can also take off faster than most other planes and can near enough be landed on most airport runways.
The plane is based on the Harrier (a V/STOL aircraft), but lacks any such functionality in-game, functioning as a conventional jet.
They are equipped with dual Miniguns and two rocket pods. That and the fact that they are one of the the most common planes in the game makes them a good choice to complete sabotage challenges. Unfortunately, this jet is very fragile. It also struggles a bit when dual grappling a person to it, occasionally getting pulled about by the momentum and weight of the unfortunate "passenger." It can sometimes lift vehicles with no problem but heavier vehicles will pull the Leopard down after a few seconds of hangtime. A Maddox FVA 45 will usually bring it back down.
When strafing military installations (or, alternatively, settlements) the Si-47 is a much less clumsy vehicle than the larger G9 Eclipse and is much easier to pilot. It generally takes longer to hit a target though.
The top speed is 219.95 MPH. Click here to see how it was tested.
Locations[]
- At several military airports. Periodically spawning on the runways and promptly taking off. One can usually find an unoccupied one in the nearby hangars.
- Banjaran Gundin. Taking off and parked.
- Sungai Cengkih Besar. Taking off and parked.
- Paya Luas. Taking off and parked. Parked ones uniquely green marked.
- Pulau Dayang Terlena. Taking off and parked.
- Kem Udara Wau Pantas. Parked.
- Kem Jalan Merpati. Parked.
- Tanah Lebar. Taking off.
- Kem Sungai Sejuk. Taking off.
- Pulau Dongeng. Taking off.
- A unique red one is provided for the race "Island Hopping", at X:25860; Y:24120.
- One is needed to complete the Reapers mission "The Setup".
- One is needed to complete the Ular Boys mission "Fry me to the Moon".
- Can be seen flying above all areas of Panau.
Trivia[]
- The name Si-47 may be a reference to the Russian Sukhoi Su-47 experimental fighter, which appears similar to the G9 Eclipse.
- Sivirkin could be a possible manufacturer for this plane.
- As shown on Just Cause 2 Multiplayer, the aircraft will always retain it's two-tone camouflage. Even when set to be one color, it will be that color and a darker color.
- Unlike most Panau Military vehicles, hijacking an occupied plane does not require a quick-time event.
- There are only two places where you will find a green-marked version of this vehicle:
- The race "Island Hopping".
- Paya Luas. There are a lot of green-marked variants of military vehicles at this airport. See the article for more details.
- The Harrier, a British aircraft in real life, on which this plane is based, was in service in Thailand (close to Panau in south-east Asia).
- While the aircraft has thrust-vectoring nozzles like a Harrier (though only two, which would make it very unstable) it has no in-game ability to hover, instead functioning like any other aircraft.
- Just Cause 4 is the first game in the series to have a functional VTOL fighter, the X700 Flycatcher.
- In short, while this vehicle is based on a vehicle that has vertical take off/landing capabilities, this vehicle itself doesn't, and any such vehicle with VTOL capabilities didn't appear until two games later.
- In real life, rifle-caliber miniguns would not be used as the gun armament for a jet aircraft, as they are too weak and too short-ranged. In general, rifle-caliber aircraft armament was phased out during or immediately after the Second World War and even .50 cal heavy machine guns did not last much longer as they were not well-suited to targeting fast jets. Modern jet aircraft typically carry a rotary cannon or revolver cannon in the 20-35mm range, either mounted internally or in a single external pod.
- British Harriers would typically carry a pair of external pods under the fuselage each containing a 30mm ADEN revolver cannon and 130 rounds of ammunition, while American variants carried a single 25mm GAU-12 Equalizer rotary cannon in one pod with 300 rounds of ammunition stored in the other. British Harrier GR. 7 and GR. 9 variants lacked any gun armament after the cancellation of the smaller ADEN 25.
Glitches[]
See also: Just Cause 2 Vehicle glitches.
- 360 Sometimes the Leopards can turn black, and/or glow white at night. This can be fixed through multiple ways, but saving and reloading the save file is one of the easiest and is guaranteed to work.