XFB44 Wraith

The XFB44 Wraith was an experimental American prototype aircraft created by Lockheed Martin in 2021. It was built to fulfil a USAF government contract to downsize the Air Force in budget and number without losing capability. The Wraith was designed to be a multi-role aircraft, offering VTOL, heavy-lift, hypersonic, reconnaissance, stealth, bomber and submarine capabilities.

The skin of the Wraith is composed of a nanotube-based variable metamaterial that can refract, absorb or deflect any frequency of light simultaneously, allowing for true invisibility and stealth ability. The stealth skin also functions as an omniscient sensor array for the Wraith, allowing it to see in all directions. The Wraith's airframe is composed of DragonBone ceramic, a material acting as a destructive kinetic energy reflector, rendering it invulnerable to kinetic energy impacts. DragonBone is incredibly lightweight, transparent, hard and strong, and must be additively manufactured on a picometer scale due to its properties being intrinsically linked to its atomic structure.

Scramjets fuelled by metallic hydrogen propel the Wraith up to Mach 26, with self-contained supplemental oxygen tanks allowing for exoatmospheric operation, whilst at low speed, the onboard 50GW fusion reactor powers a pair of graphene ionic wind turbines that can take the Wraith up to Mach 2 with near instantaneous acceleration and zero noise or heat.

The weapons bay of the Wraith can deploy the most cutting-edge weaponry the USAF has to offer, including the AIM160 Cerberus cluster-munition missile, the AIM170 Jackhammer kinetic impact missile and the AIM180 Basilisk hypersonic stealth missile, along with most any other bomb or missile in the US arsenal, up to and including the GBU43/B MOAB. Four pinpoint PD laser turrets sit at the corners of the Wraith, offering 360º protection from incoming missiles, as well as offering offensive capabilities. A quad-barrelled coilgun resides in the nose of the aircraft, with each 5kg shell accelerated to having the energy of a 1,000lb bomb.

The Wraith can operate in space using onboard oxygen, and concealed manoeuvring thrusters. Underwater, the skin of the aircraft allows it to supercavitate at speeds up to Mach 2. Through thrust vectoring, the Wraith can take off vertically with a load of up to 60 tons, increasing to 80 tons in horizontal flight.

The only Wraith prototype was stored in a high-security hangar in the Groom Lake Flight Testing Facility, Nevada, before being stolen and used as an escape method by Damien Lawrence shortly after he broke out of ADX Florence.