Indeed but does virtually everything else worse it’s an upgrade in that respect there’s no denying it. But yeah currently there’s no Anti-ship solution, which ironically is the whole reason Carriers became so dominant and replaced battleships, was because aircraft could kill them easier and faster.
Submarines do exist but I imagine its easier to use an ASHM than one of our only 7 SSN’s (of which only 1 is currently in deployable condition because we let the company who makes the steel cables that pull the subs out of the water for maintenance go bankrupt :) )
Shame it won’t be carrier capable though so we can field our own naval aircraft. I’m hoping perhaps there may be some consideration given to converting the smaller loyal wingman to accompany Tempest into some sort of CATOBAR aircraft. That of course assumes the loyal wingman wouldn’t be some sort of low-cost, subsonic waste of money that’s not even stealthy.
Use VTOL for another. The Yak 41 can even VTOL at 300km/h but Fat Amy (I call the B Fat Amy because it is and the others are cool) The F35 also didn’t replace the Shar and Harrier. It just became something that looked like it had the same ability.
Yeah but you need more than 4 BOL chaffs to do what one Phimat chaff does since Phimat dumps the large calibre chaffs while BOL is even smaller than standard chaff.
I have nothing against it getting Phimat lol, It makes sense that it should get it.
What I was more commenting on was they could have done some work to the FMs and announced that. Or the sooty exhaust, so on and so forth, but instead they gave it a Chaff pod.