Komma Kintaala

The aircraft descends from the Komma PZu-99, which in 1999 beat the Hammerschmidt PZu-11 as the winning design of the Himmelkorps' Future Fighter Project. The Kintaala therefore became the first mainline Zusian fighter jet not to be designed and produced by Hammerschmidt, and helped introduce Komma Group as one of the world's largest military contractors. During development, the Kintaala program drew much scrutiny and criticism for its unprecedented size and complexity, as well as ballooning costs. The aircraft nonetheless entered service in 2013 and rapidly became the leading fighter of the Zusian Vahrmacht.

The Kintaala entered service with the Himmelkorps in January 2013 and then the Marinakorps in March 2014. It first entered combat almost immediately thereafter as part of the Fifth Kyrossic War in 2015 and 2016, during which it faced its fifth-generation Arshavati rival, the. The Zusian Empire plans to purchase at least 1,100 Kintaalas through 2042, which is projected to represent the bulk of the crewed tactical airpower of the Vahrmacht for the next two decades.