BAe Sea Harrier - Technical data and discussion

For whatever reason yeah.

Why won’t they fix the FM though it’s been over 2 major updates since it started being brought up.

Even just EEGS or getting rid of the sooty exhaust would have been a start

Absolutely but now the HUD is actually lacking the ATA gunsight altogether

I love how i used to see a4’s as easy pray untill i played one myself and went nuts in it… Do people just now know how to fly it as im now wary of any a4’s i see if im not in something i feel confident in.

Glad we got the entire map while sad we got the entire map as it meant shrinking… No idea how they plan for us players to use amraams when were just going to have a better ir missile in the asraam that doesnt alert rwr…

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No they are great aircraft I know this well and I understand them.

However the Harrier I understand better and the A-4 even if flown by a good pilot should not be much threat to a harrier.

FA2 has TWS GMTI now on dev;

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Does the Blue Fox have a similar mode for detecting ships?

Interesting… I knew it had a naval scan mode, but didnt think it had GMTI and that was a specific upgrade done for the Gripen

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Wont be TWS, but yes it did.


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Sea Harrier over the falklands

Ofc, the Blue Fox was pretty shit for its use and era.

Not entirely fair, but accurate.

They basically weren’t allowed to develop a radar so it’s just the seaspray from the lynx

I don’t blame the Shar for its engineers not being sneaky and using a better radar but the MoD and the British Government as a whole are so fucking useless and greedy that they’d probably sell the whole country to the USSR for only a few million pounds. They already did that with the Russian oligarchs and many Chinese business people

I was looking through the Argie archive from the Data they collected on the Shar heres this.

They even had data regarding VIFF and the Shars capabilities in Low alt dogfights, there is a reason they put a do not engage system in.

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Except its better in everyway and can track, range, and detect air targets all while being jammed…

Very nice but… I just want a Shar 1 with all aspect PD and Fox 1s ; _ ; .

Isnt that just the FRS.1?

This is really fun, but are they going to add the Sea Eagle?

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The FRS.1 is just the Shar but sometimes called the Shar 1 when talking about both Sea Harriers (FRS.1 and FA.2)