Hello dear forum
i got a question about the german tornado ids with brimstone missles bc were did gajin get the info about using this missle. The german goverment just decided last year to buy brimestone till now 1. december 25 we still didnt took delivery of brimstone and i cant finde any source that says that our tornados would get this missle here i got an article talking about the deal and that only eurofighters will get this missle Bundeswehr kauft Lenkflugkörper Brimstone und Stinger
ik that gajin maybe only did that for better gameplay but its just not historically accurat
Spoiler
It comes from a single 2015 brochure where it states Brimstones are (or at least were) planned for the ASSTA4 which became the SLE or something.
The reality is, I doubt that they actually will be added when Brimstone 3s arrive in 2028, given Germany is retiring a lot of Tornados in 2030 and Germany certainly never used Brimstone 1s
So yes, it is a tenative at best additions, likely only added to keep the SLE performing similarly to the GR4 in GRB (Even though Brimstone 1s at the moment are useless on the platform). So unless MMW is planned in the near future and they want to keep both together, it is a very wierd and potentially ahistorical addition. Especially given that “planned weapons” have been denied so far for other aircraft, such as Spear-Glides for the Typhoon as they have yet to be fitted.
It’s like the Kh-38MT.
Someone saw it in a brochure and decided it needed to be added to the game.
Technically “semi-historical” due to the Airbus brochure but never mounted, Germany doesn’t even operate Brimstones 1 to be begin with. I’d much rather have gotten LaGS, which were actually mounted and fired on the Tornado WTD.
Other thing is that is for ASSTA 4 upgrades, when the ingame version is the SLE
Yeah, im not sure on the correlation between the 2 though.
If the ASSTA4 and SLE are 2 entirely different things or the SLE is just an evolution of the ASSTA4. If its the latter than its fine in my books to use ASSTA 4 stuff for the SLE, but it still raises questions about whether Brimstones are even still planned given the age of the document and whether “planned” weapons can be reported for other vehicles, current and future.
