we need a 7.7 spaa my fellas
Blowpipe when gaijin xD
Please god no…
Imagine using the arrow keys to guide an anti air missile lol. Mach 1.5 though according to Wikipedia
Still such a disappointment we dont have a rover with a LML Blowpipe/Javelin launcher on the back for around 9.0
Maybe these wouldn’t be 7.7, but they could certainly act as some gap fillers between the Bosvark and the Falcon :)
and yes, the 2nd one is a real vehicle somehow
I could easily see the Fox AA being at 6.0 as its essentially a British R3T20, but with more armour and a bigger ammo belt (200 compared to 120 of the R3)
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Ahem, Alvis can provide!
Obviously the best option is going to be the twin twenty mm Scorpion, but the Fox AA and the base Simba would still be pretty good due to the increased mobility over previous SPAAGs. (There’s also some later ZA stuff that could be good too, but I’m not super familer with ZA stuff so I’ll leave that to someone else)
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I am a firm believer Blowpipe will be a hidden gem and will completely dominate aircraft in the hands of the select few madlads like myself who like MCLOS missiles in WT.
Or is the god no because you too understand the meme power of the humble pipe?
Dw i put less than 5 minutes of effort into it XD
Remind me, blowpipe doesn’t use proxy fuse does it?
You need help my friend…
It indeed has a proximity fuse. However theres confusion over it because you can turn that system on/off depending on what you want to fire on (it had a limited anti-light armour/infantry capacity as IIRC its got a chunky bit of explosives in the missile, given we now have that for artillery proxy rounds, should be simple to add for a missile).
It also has an auto-gather system people forget about where the missile under ACLOS will guide itself so the user can see it before switching to MCLOS.
I only need my beloved Blowpipe, I need another game where it suddenly gets called OP, its been over 10 years since Wargame ALB and the 99% hit rate SAS Blowpipe meta.
Shudders
Alas, in later WGs you can still spam out Blowpipes for the giggles (need to boot up WARNO and see if they still let you field obscene numbers of the AA teams). They still won’t hit anything though…
This will hit many things though:
Yup, though personally I find them half decent at least in suffecient numbers (and fighting AI)
So just wondering a couple things,
Firstly, whats the big white thing on the left here (napalm bomb?)? Also, whats the black and white things?
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1145464
Secondly, just me, or is this BL 755 with 2 different strikemasters
Omani Air Force (70s picture)
Aviation photographs of Registration: G-BAWF : ABPic (source)
New Zealand Air Force (source is forum, not sure original)
While reading around, never seen New Zealand having BL 755, but I did know Saudi Arabia bought it along with UAE, though Oman is a potential buyer and not all buyers are named often.
https://www.forecastinternational.com/archive/disp_old_pdf.cfm?ARC_ID=1448
Not sure how good forecast are but in their 1996 December paper suggested Saudi could be an unknown buyer (which turned out correct) and also Oman, which would explain their plane with the bomb under it?
In addition, at least four other unidentified nations have purchased this system; one of these may be
Saudi Arabia; another may be Oman.
Janes also suggests Oman has both BL 755 and Rockeye.
Just thought it interesting given we had the rumour/leaks of BL 755 and thought it might be worth a punt to get it on Strikemaster if it comes?
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Mock up of a recce pod I think - if you mean the big big one on the left side of the plane.
The smaller white thing on the left of the picture (right side of the plane) with the black squares and red stripes is a 50 gallon drop tank (bigger teardrop shaped ones are 75 gallon). Napalm/Firebombs were based on the 50 gallon tank, but a modified construction probably made of pressed metal sheets designed to separate around the seam, rather than the phenolic asbestos often used for drop tanks in that period.
CBLS (Carrier, Bomb, Light Stores) usually for dropping little prac bombs
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cheers.
A question for those more knowledgeable, the Indian Jaguar IM with the AESA, can the radar datalink/guide it’s ASRAAM? Would be fun if it can.