The IWM Air War video on the falklands from my brief recollection was also worth a watch.
If you want a more in depth look in the air war: https://youtu.be/lHmd4xVeQj4?si=71By7Adfal_pkL5u
Also can recommend Harrier 809 by Rowland White
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Yeah that was excellent too
Anyone got any info about the radar not having a pd mode anymore? Double checked and the squadron vehicle sea harrier no longer has it.
The way it’s sounding makes it seem to be an analog to something like AGM-84E SLAM or KH-59 which are both MITL capable
MITL capable missiles/bombs would be a fairly interesting thing to be implemented tbh albeit it could potentially be a pain to balance
Wasnt aware it ever had it. Interesting. When did it have it?
After they fixed it as it used to just have the f5e radar as a place holder. Should have a of mode from what I know as it was meant for deck fights and carrier defence. Just wanted to know if anyone has any documents or information on it so I could do a bug report.
I was thinking there was still something off about the radar because I heard a story of a Shar detecting an Argentine Cruiser at over 100km. I’ll see if I can find where I heard it from.
I dunno.
I really struggle with the SHar’s radar: Even close contacts well visible visually often are not detected by the radar, even under good conditions (ground clutter free)…
The problem with the Shar radars were that it required a lot of tweaking and in flight attention form the pilot all that we don’t have in wt so the performance is lacking. In the Falklands there were even big differences between the deployed squadrons (800,801,809 NAS).
But it really didn’t have any look down capabilities so the lack of a PD mode is completely accurate
The Sea Harrier FRS.1’s radar never had a pulse Doppler mode in real life. I’m also not aware of it ever having had one in game (unless it was a short-lived dev server thing - I’m sure it’s never had PD on the live server).
iirc it did have one on dev during its release but it was very short lived. whether it made it to live i dont know.
I’ve found the same. Was really excited about finally having IFF to ID targets and finally being able to use the 9Ls fully but then found that half the time. I couldn’t even see the target on the radar
Think it was an update or two ago. It had of for a while so I decided to finally bring it into sim but ended up getting multiple team kills due to the radars iff being worthless and my teams never bloody replying. This was the update they gave the British phantoms off for their iff modes.
Updated the section on FA.2 A2A loadouts, @Flame2512 rightfully spotted mention of the CRL (Common Rail Launcher) BOL listed in the FA.2 manual and another document hes recently copied.
As such full AMRAAM loadouts will carry up to 380CM’s.
4 x AMRAAM (Outboard and Under Fuselage) 2x ALE-40 & 2x CRL/BOL (380CM’s)
2 x Sidewinder (Outboard) 2 x AMRAAM (Under Fuselage) 2x ALE-40 & 2x BOL-304 (380CM’s)
2 x Sidewinder (Outboard) 2 x ADEN30 Gunpod (Under Fuselage) 2x ALE-40 & 2x BOL-304 (380CM’s)
2 x AMRAAM (Outboard) 2 x ADEN30 Gunpod (Under Fuselage) 2x ALE-40 & 2x CRL/BOL (380CM’s)
4 x Sidewinder (Outboard Twin rail) 2 x ADEN30 Gunpod (Under Fuselage) 2x ALE-40 (60CM’s)
4 x Sidewinder (Outboard Twin rail) 2 x AMRAAM (Under Fuselage) 2x ALE-40 (60CM’s)
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I love you flame.
Nice! I don’t think I’ve seen the BOL unit stuck on the back of the CRL on Sea Harrier but I know the CRL style launcher is something we had in common with Sweden, until both countries seemingly ended up switching to ACMA Multi-Function Rail Launcher and LAU-127 for more modern aircraft like Typhoon and Gripen E (both of which also accept a BOL unit)
I assume the CRL+BOL fit is this configuration we often see on Swedish Gripens?
Sea Harrier’s Frazer-Nash CRL:
Profile of the launcher is clearly the same as the one in Swedish service.
I assume this is where the BOL-300 unit plugs on
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That image shows an AMRAAM launcher with BOL in it. According to the manufacturer the CRL accepts AMRAAM and Skyflash.
@Gunjob is this grounds for the Gripen to have a Skyflash+ BOL option in game?
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Well, if manufacturer says so, then i do not see a reason to say no. Sadly my view is very narrow.