Usea Dynamics was founded in 1958, shortly after the formation of the Federation of Central Usea, as a government-subsidized military aerospace firm in conjunction with Osea. Its first major contract was the OADF's and OMDF's TFX program to produce both an Air Force fighter-bomber and Navy carrierborne interceptor based on the same airframe. Its F-111A proposal for the OADF and FCUAF is generally looked upon as a competent strike aircraft for its time and saw moderate export success, but the same cannot be said of the F-111B naval craft. The F-111 was simply too heavy of a plane for carrier operations, and Usea Dynamic's attempts at adapting it for that role were in vain, leading only to budget and deadline overruns. The OMDF withdrew from the project in favor of Calverton's F-14 Tomcat, and while the FCU government funded the F-111B for several more years, it too eventually gave in and let the project die.
Usea Dynamics' next aerospace contract was much more lucrative, when its YF-16 Fighting Falcon won the Lightweight Fighter contract over the Northwood YF-17 Cobra in the late 60s. Although it was developed in partnership with Lawhead, the OADF alone ordered over 2,000 airframes, and Usea Dynamics profited greatly over the next several decades as the F-16 became a mainstay of Western arsenals. When it offered the F-16C variant EASA attempted to compete with the X-01 Basilisk, but this was quickly shot down as potential customers had grown accustomed to operating the Fighting Falcon. The F-16's consistent successes overshadowed the next major contract lost by Usea Dynamics when the UH-9 Chippewa and SH-9 Seagull were purchased by the Osean military rather than the UH-60 Blackhawk and SH-60 Seahawk.
The perennially ill-fated XFA-27
The 90s brought a reversal of fortune, and Usea Dynamics found itself developing failure after failure. First its F-16E Block 60 failed to catch on amongst operators who felt their F-16C Block 50/52s were sufficient against fourth generation Eastern threats, although the Kornukov Design Bureau incorporated many of its features into the Os-16 Kestrel-C knockoff. It also unsuccessfully attempted to sell its F-16XL attacker concept despite the widespread success of the competing F-15E Strike Eagle. Next came the XB-10, XFA-27, and ZOE projects, modernization programs for the FCU military envisioned in the early 90s that fell through after Ulysses' discovery prompted a cutting of the military budget and the destruction of all XB-10 and ZOE prototypes in the 1997 Usean continental uprising. The ZOE project included the costly acquisition of Belka's single ADF-01A Falken prototype in order to study its camera system, but was captured by rebels and destroyed in the uprising. The XFA-27 was considered too expensive compared with updating FCUN F-14As to F-14D(R)s, and with no XB-10s left after the uprising that project was also canceled. Despite all these failures, reliable sales of F-16s and government subsidies kept Usea Dynamics afloat, as well as small-scale acquisition of their F-15S conversions to the FCUAF.
A GR-developed F-16XF
Usea Dynamics was among the first aerospace firms to be bought out by General Resource upon its establishment in 2011. Usea Dynamics was integrated into GR in 2012, and the international conglomerate inherited its designs, profiting greatly off of the continued manufacture of F-16 parts and even having managed to make the F-16XL commercially viable. General Resource briefly contemplated reviving the XFA-27 design to compete with the F-14E, but decided that it would be more efficient to simply buy out Calverton than attempt to bring the flawed craft up to operational status. In the years since its merger, General Resource has continued to produce new F-16 variants as its primary low-tier fighter line. But despite the longevity of the F-16 line, Usea Dynamics is widely remembered for bold ideas that were consistently stymied by a lack of resources and engineering know-how, their few great profitable successes having been greatly overshadowed by various disasterous flops that made them the laughing stock of the military aviation community.