BOL containers for ajs37

The game already has a Viggen with BOL containers on the side pylons. This will increase the survival rate during the game as it will be possible to take 4-x agtm and 2-x rb24j and you will not have to sacrifice countermeasures. Now we have to sacrifice 1-x agtm to take 24 flares and 340 chaff, with this configuration, the ajs37 is not much different from the aj37. In arb, we meet aim 9l and r60m on enemy fighters, but we can’t do anything against them if we took a preset for 16x120kg bombs, since one base requires just that much
P.S. This is my first article on the forum and I’m writing it through an online translator so don’t get too mad at mistakes in the text

  • add bol containers and do not change the br
  • add containers and change br (why?)
  • do not add
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The question is though. Did it ever equip them IRL?

Why not? He can carry rb24j at least in the game

If you / someone else can provide proof it did use this config, then the devs might add it.

this is certainly not an argument for adding, but the jas 39a did not have a helmet mounted sight irl, but it is in the game and the developers explained this by the long service life of the aircraft and modifications

Nah, The JAS39A got the HMD because of balance. it never used it IRL.

For newer vehicles they choose more freely based on balance and vehicle performance.
On older vehicles they try to stay historical as much as possible, so you have to show that the vehicle used it IRL for the DEV’s to consider giving the vehicle the modification.

it never had them…

Ajs37 plays very badly, so why can’t it be rebalanced by adding more controvers? And the Ajs37 is not an old technique, it was withdrawn from service in 2000

I don’t think it plays badly at all, but that’s subjective. If the dev’s see that the AJS37 has bad efficiency then they will lower the BR.

I personally do not like adding things to vehicles that they have never used, at the very least it should in my opinion have been successfully tested on the vehicle before it’s added to the game.

withdrawn from service date means literally nothing. there are some countries still to this day using equipment from the 1960’s. Date of introduction is a lot more telling of how old equipment is.

Edit:
If you are interested:

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Excellent opinion but I believe that the BR system cannot honestly balance the equipment with the aim9l, now this aircraft is in a trap where it cannot be upgraded to the BR due to its poor characteristics and lack of countermeasures and forward-firing weapons, but also it cannot be demoted to the BR because of the aim9l. After all, this is a game, not a museum, and games are characterized by game conventions

Jas 39A did get that, the only made up gripen rn is the SAAF one as its currently a mix of the MS18-MS19 of which they dont operate.

I don’t think the JAS39A ever had HMD IRL, i think there was at most some trials with a prototype (JAS39NG).

I think all of the JAS39 in game right now are technically not real as the game lacks the mechanics to make a proper MS upgrade of any kind for the C version.

Edit:
A quick google landed me this:
(Sweden orders Helmet-Mounted Display for Gripen)
And this:
(First Gripen flight with helmet mounted display)

So the HMD got ordered in 2007, but first successfully tested in 2001 (the first JAS39C came into service late 2004)

Doesn’t “Lavett 74” mean that it included CM’s? I’m pretty sure that’s the one

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Not automatically, “Lavett 74” is JUST the missile to plane interface, it has the option to be fitted with BOL launchers as well. its modular :)

So the question then becomes if you can prove that BOL was installed on the AJS37.

I assume “Missile-rail” (RB-Skena) is the BOL?

Also, here is the “image which proves it”

image

AJS-37 with RBS-15 and RB-74 (Note: The BOL type weapons rail sticks out behind the missiles motor and rear fins like seen in the image)

I’d readily take the BOL pods, despite their poor effectiveness simply so I can take four 9L’s

Nope.
“RB” is short for “Robot” which in this context translates to “missile”.
“Skena” translates to “Rail”.
So its basically just the interface between the pylon and the missile.
It can however have BOL installed into it but isn’t automatically equipped with it (and i do not know if that was even something that was possible back then).

Image shows it was (sorry for the spastic editing)

I do not see any BOL in that image.

There is this, but I don’t know if it’s reputable.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/14l7tih/another_suggestion_for_a_possible_ajs37_buff/?rdt=54752

Now that is an image that would prove “BOL” integrated into “Lavett 74” , it also very much looks like part of a manual, but for what version of viggen it doesn’t say. Others have commented in the thread that it is the JA37 though, but i can’t tell for myself.

The part at the bottom marked “1)” is the thing i mentioned, the “BOL” gets integrated into the “Lavett 74” but isn’t automatically part of it.

BOL outside of the rail look like this:

Gaijin would then need the manual itself for the report to be accepted.