BAe Sea Harrier - Technical data and discussion

Wish our Shars and harriers in game had the correct visual models.

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What’s wrong with them in game?

Only minor details someone would pickup and notice if they spend far to much time looking at the real ones in museums and historical footage lol.

Like the differences in the Shaping of the fuselage that happened with the first Pegasus upgrades after the Mk101.

Essentially every Harrier in game is an AV-8A with slightly different parts here and their. The Ailerons where also bigger than the flaps but in game they are the same size.

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Does anyone know how im supposed to use the tadpole gunsight thing?

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can you send a SS of you what mean please

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This one

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Lol then whats it for

On the SHars it’s totally broken. Will be fixed if/when we get EEGS.

Though I don’t think it works all that great on aircraft where it is functional like the F3s

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Ah ok. A gunsight is kinda a crucial component when in the cockpit. Hope it gets sorted soon. It would be nice if we could get the the target cross you tend to get in ground mode so i have something to atleast better eyeball my shots until EEGS is added.

Why it’s fixed range sight mode is broken is the most confusing.

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I know this isn’t quite the right thread but I was wondering if anyone here could confirm if any of the British Harrier’s were equipt with the AN/ASA-63 or -83, as it ties into a report that I’ve got on the go at the moment, As I have documentation for the US AV-8A & -8C being equipt with the -83, or really any further documentation for the ASA-83, though I do know that it replaces the mentioned Double D pattern with a Rosette scan as the point of difference.


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With Falklands map coming, need SHars fully functional next major

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Was looking at the BOL on the Sea Harrier FA.2 and noticed that there is plenty of space on the dual Sidewinder rack for both missiles to get a BOL rail and still sit comfortably without clipping or touching anything. I wonder if it is possible to use BOL on the dual rails IRL, I know it was never tested (or photographed at least) but It would be nice if we could get Gaijin to do that for us

Pretty sure it was trialed on the AV-8B, but the quality of the image makes it hard to distinguish the adapter that was used, See Figure 1 in the following document.

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA389276.pdf#page=4

The AV8B is American and I’m concerned about the Shar 2 getting it

*getting the twin sw launcher

Not sure what if anything this has to do with the Twin SW pylon on SHAR or the BOL-304 rails?

Seems it’s just mounted on the skrakes.

Also, BOL on SHAR is literally wired up to the airbrake switch in the cockpit. If your airbrake is up, pressing up again dispenses BOL. Ahah.

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I heard early in the forum about that but I thought that it meant the flares came out of the airbrake instead of behind it but I’m glad that is not the case.

Why not just have the countermeasures in a panel next to the throttle like the F16? It’s a easy and simple solution and even the F15 came out at the same time as the Shar

Because it was a rushed integration. Barely integrated at all. I really doubt given how janky the setup is that it could work on the twin pylon. We’re not talking about Harrier II here where it is integrated and part of its DASS suite.

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