Tornado Maxing
Harrier II looks good to;
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Some tickets to try and get BL755 on the Navy Buccs:
S.1 Community Bug Reporting System
S.2 Community Bug Reporting System
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Hell yeah, cluster bombs!
Also, what with modifications now affecting BR’s, chances of 9L’s on Brit phantoms?
The Jaag also looks quite formidable with 8 of them equipped
Now if only we could trade AIM-9Ls for a nastier BR, it would be complete
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Its a shame theres only circumstantial evidence for the Omanis potentially being able to mount them (as they are believed to have gotten it before the Hunters were even there given that an Omani Strikemaster was at shows with the bombs prior to the Hunter adoption). IIRC there are things for Jet Provosts carrying them though.
If anyone has any actual evidence it would likely help.
1973 airshow.
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/registration/G-BAWF
adoption ~1975 for Hunters with BL-755 listed as mounted.
Mentions Oman as 1 of the potential 2 middle east nations.
https://www.forecastinternational.com/archive/disp_old_pdf.cfm?ARC_ID=1448
Do we think this enough for gaijin to give the strikemaster BL-755 or is it too “circumstantial”?
edit:
https://www.airhistory.net/photo/554119/G-BAWF
also, anyone know what the red clusterbombs here are? Just says 65kg cluster bomb.
S1 is such a dismall aircraft in ARB, it really needs it
So the Hunter got a Blue note
Hawker Hunter Blue note much too quiet relative to engine
It’s too quiet, it should be able to drown out the engine sound itself, but doesn’t in game
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Well, a man went in with his hopium.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/eInj4Eqm7oZd
My strikemaster h(/c)ope post.
Deffo sucks that so little real hard evidence exists showing Strikemaster meme armaments and the like.
Oh they most definitely had BL755 for Hunter
and almost certainly Jaguar too - we pretty much included BL755 as a package deal with Jaguar for other countries like India and Nigeria
Ironically the only pic I have of a Jag in Oman with BL755 is actually one of our GR.3s dropping it in the Omani desert on an edition of Ex. Magic Carpet
Sadly not found anything concrete for Strikemaster yet.
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Yeah it do be a harsh mistress to find things about ha. I only got lucky with the guns/cannons by sheer coincidence in finding those.
Copium that it’s next to a Mk.88 as well (under pre-delivery registration G-AZYN)
IIRC the little red 65kg bombs were an Expal (Spanish) product.
Chile used them on Vampire
Listen to it in third person, gonna be real nice to be cas’ed and dog fight hunters next update.
Anyone else finding the BL755s do bugger all?
Dropping 12 onto an MBT and im getting maybe 1x Hit
Didnt gaijin say in the dev streams “not very good vs mbts”? I remember it raising a red flag in my brain.
For the Strikemaster’s armament in RNZAF service you’ll probably want these documents from archives NZ, sadly none have been digitised, and ANZ doesn’t offer those services anymore, so someone will have to go and grab them in person.
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Organisation - Re-Equipment Project, Strikemaster - Armament/Ordnance, ANZ: R20217962, 1/24/3
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Armament Engineering - Aircraft Armament Installations - Strikemaster, ANZ: R20383337, 8/3/4
As far as I can tell, No.4 refers to the works done to certify the Strikemaster for CRV-7 in the 6-tube LAU-5002, and 19-tube LAU-5003 when they came into RNZAF service mid 80’s to replace older rocket types, but also fitting of the Mk.81 250lb bomb, both of which are missing in game.
I dont know, but they should be
Spoiler
Document from Gunjob previously posting on this forum, so its fine
Literally the recommended weapon for armour
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thats just clusters in general at the moment
i dropped all 24 CBUs on the F-15EX onto a test drive Leo 2A4, and only got a track
and then dropped 8 on each a bradley and BMP, and only killed one of the BMPs
Then fingers crossed they buff them.
At the moment, you would be better off running regular bombs.
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I feel like the spread on them is too high. May be a balancing decision but having each one have a tighter spread would mean a high probability of hit.
I dont think enough bomblets are actaully dropping
But the spread is fixed regarldess of anyting else, so it might be intentional