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The '''Q-107 Swift''' is a single-engine multirole fighter jet designed during the [[Auroran Imperial War]] by the Aerial Warfare Division of Axdel. Originally built to serve primarily as an air superiority fighter, the Q-103 evolved over subsequent variants into a capable multirole aircraft. The aircraft was produced in large numbers, and post-War it was exported to several countries as was the heavily modified Q-103S and its modernised Q-103SE variant, of which both versions remain in service in the present in many countries. In Axdelian service the Q-103SE will be replaced with [[Q-107 Grackle|Q-107A Grackle]] stealth fighters by 2026

The Q-103S Super Swift is a heavily modified redesign of the original Swift. Only two seater cockpits were produced to support multirole operations. The fuselage was strengthened with composite materials and enlarged in order to fit improved avionics, larger fuel tanks and increased payload weight. Additionally the wings and control surfaces have been slightly reshaped in order give the aircraft relaxed stability, improving responsiveness and reducing energy loss during manoeuvres. The latterreduced changeaerodynamic stability also allowsgranted the fighter a degree forof supermanoeuvrability, meaningallowing high-AoA post-stall manoeuvres canto be performed if necessary.

In 2010 a modernising upgrade package to existing Q-103S's was released, designating them as Q-103SE Enhanced Super Swifts, as part of a 2025 life extension programme enacted due to interest from foreign users and delays in the final development and production schedule of the [[Q-107 Grackle]], a series of upgrades were installed on 52 aircraft to be designated as the Q-103SE Enhanced Super Swift. This package included an AESA radar system and diverterless supersonic inlets to reduce mechanical complexity, as well as an updated cockpit instruments with touchscreen interfaces withand a vastly upgraded mission computer and communications suiteequipment. These52 aircraft in Axdelian service were upgraded to the standard and sawwas combat in the [[Auroran-Cerenerian War]], primarily performing ground attack missions.

* Axdelian Aerospace Force - at its peak the AAeF operated over 1000 Q-103's of all variants. 500 Q-103S Super Swifts were procured in 1992, of which 52 were upgraded to Q-103SE specification in 2010.

* Quarii Air Force - Ordered 96 Q-103B and C's during the AIW. The full order was not delivered in time before the end of the war and was reduced to 70 planes in total. In 19941993 the QAF ordered 65 Q-103S's, however they weren't fully delivered until 1998 due to the Axdelian civil war disrupting production. UpgradingThe theirentire fleet to Q-103SE standard was consideredupgraded instead of purchasingto Q-107A103SE Gracklesspecification but wasin rejected2014.