Haven’t seen this video here yet.
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iirc its those weird pods on the F-5E, the ALE-40
IIRC each dispenser is either 30 chaff packets or 15 flares. you can replace 1 flare for 2 chaff.
Look I get the PGMs might be good but, you literally have to be in clear weather and daytime for them to work, and even then I’ve heard of them conking out or just not having the reach.
It depends on which series of flares Gaijin models; the earlier (and larger) 2x1x8" MJU-7/B Family or later M206 (1x1x8")
The former should have half the count of the latter, but there are much more advanced variants like the MJU-47 (which includes kinematic propulsion to help delay the onset of some types of IRCCM) or the MJU-50 & -51 (2x1x8") which do not produce light in the visual spectrum and so are hard to detect and so useful for pre-flaring since they can’t be detected with night vison or thermals.
The F-4E’s (and their derivatives) are a special case (due to flares being a bolt on item) where their ALE-40 CM dispenser can only take at most 40 units of flares of the 60 total units of available space available, and since it uses the 2x1x8" size flares there should be a maximum of 20 releases due to how the dispensers are zoned (each set of dispensers has a 20 unit and a 10 unit zone, which must be uniformly loaded between types of CM (Flare, Chaff, (EM) Noisemaker))
The ALE-29 used on USN F-4s is otherwise unimpacted
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Surface launched ASRAAM go weeeeeeeeee
https://x.com/osinttechnical/status/1781938098881827183?s=61&t=Drs1DV7KT-RUjGFGLKVBaw
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HOLY SHIT THAT TURN.
If that can be authenticated that is utterly insane.
Cheers for the absolute eye candy.
No wonder they didn’t care for the thrust vectoring P3I…
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Can’t see the arc of the turn but you can see the Supacat and its similar launch.
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Launch seen from Hawkeye and a bit of the pull.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1200111907516985482/1205185025352671322/ssstwitter.com_1707408864750.mp4?ex=6633bc05&is=66214705&hm=7647a95db53e859ad76dfadfa573db8c42f2eb4fed1e3ad6d57de0ecd4f06b78&
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Damn the drones in WT were so popular they made it into reality.
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@Gunjob @DevilO6 @HyJetV thanks, looks like ASRAAM has no shortage of maneuverability.
The ground launches also put into perspective just how fast those things are.
Yeah its a big rocket motor. And is manoeuvrable enough that the proxy fuse is largely secondary and impact is the normal method of kill.
Spoiler
Motor section can be seen here;
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So…when can we expect the surface launched ASRAAM in game to counter those pesky low earth orbit cruising, LGB dropping Cas spammers?
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Well, they claim 16km range for the gound launched one, so it could be added even now if they wanted. Sadly carrier has no search feature and can carry only 2 of them.
Different pair of boots is Land Ceptor.
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Gaijin make zala 421 In warfare 2077 event…
It still won’t be enough, you would need a missile that can kill Mach 1 perpendiculary flying target at range of 10 km. There is very little of those. ASRAAM would run out of energy fast. A player correctly strategising would still come out on top, I know that because I’m that player.
@Flame2512 Not sure if this has been brought up, but apparently a Lightning was used to test the Mauser BK-27. I have found the aircraft (pictured below), but no photos of it with the BK-27
From my post on SPF:
See the reply after it for further details.
Here’s XP693 for reference:
Additionally, though I’m not sure whether it’s been brought up on the new forums, an Avro Vulcan was also used to test the BK-27. It seems it was also in the testbed configuration for the RB.199 which would make it the only five-engined combat-capable aircraft I’m aware of.
Here’s what XA903 looked like with the RB.199:
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Thats not the RB199 installation thats the Olympus 593 test bed from the concord trials (olymlus 593 written on the side in big frendly letters is a bit of a give away)
This is the RB199 installation
Olympus 320 test bed for good measure
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and I think they’ve nerfed red tops again. They now basically do no damage. 1 match, 2 hits, 1 on a A-4 another on a F-104. Both solid hits. Barely scratched their respective targets. Only the hit on the A-4 was a crit hit. The F-104 was just a “hit”
My mistake, apologies
I know this is an air thread but I don’t recall seeing a ground equivalent (happy to move this there if there is one)