@Gunjob I see the SRAAM range and all-aspect reports are still sat as acknowledged, do you know if anything’s happening with them?
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Also is there an internal report for the Bucc S.2B having Fleet Air Arm No.7 pods with 2-inch RP rockets like the S.2, instead of the RAF Type 155 pods with 68mm SNEBs it should have?
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Sea Venom was, iirc, quite the shout in Sim. AI Radar really helped with the finding people bit, which was always my problem, and then it’s a matter of getting Hispanos to work (they won’t)
I never could make myself like it, it feels really fat and boaty, and mistakes aren’t exactly easily forgiven in it (getting tapped is flatspin territory, rivalling only the Scimitar for flatspinability) - I liked it for being able to rock around with 4 missiles and ADENs that more often than not, kinda sort of possibly worked.
Its a pain the arse to use. But the Radar on the Javelin is kinda insane for just finding targets. especially the soviet bombers at high alt.
I imagine this isn’t new, but at the DVD2024 Defence Show official video they showed off a K9A2 Thunder with Union Flags on it. I assume this is just a bid to sell us the K9, but still interesting.
Didnt go through, it lost to the RCH-155 iirc
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Strange that they would display it again in this years trailer, but then again it does say 2022 at the end, I think they just reused the video haha
They do however claim they are displaying the new Challenger 3 prototype, so hopefully we might get some more info on that afterwards.
According to Janes, Moog are also displaying their new “Reconfigurable Integrated-weapons Platform” at the event. I believe we’ve seen a similar thing to this before, but if Janes are correct this one uses Starstreak/Marlet launchers, which we haven’t seen before (at least I cant find any earlier images). Its quite reminiscent of the VERDI-2 turret.
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if i had a pound for every bit of military equipment that was trying to be sold covered in the union jack id be fucking rich. do you Brits just get all horny for seeing the union jack or is it just lame marketing?
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not a clue. Hardware companies tryna outdo each other constantly lol
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In rare cases Gaijin will accept vehicles like this into tech trees, so it makes me somewhat interested in it
i hear you but it is just a demo vehicle at a show, if the k9 was to be added to the British tree it would be via the AS9 Huntsman
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It’s actually more likely to be the Indian K9 right now. The “K9 Vajra-T”
nah cant have it, its got the funny pinwheel of banning
“UK doesn’t need it”.
“It’s just an off the shelf USA Tank”
We probs won’t get it at all. But nice to dream though. :/
@Gunjob whilst ppl are pestering you i’ll jump on, my two tank reports recently
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/Eq5Ka0x13yqq
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/Eq5Ka0x13yqq
Also amazingly it’s been 3 YEARS since 3.7 inch AA gun Ram lacking AA ammunition was reported and there was never any change to the game. I thought perhaps the VT fuze shell would be rejected for balance reasons but I thought they may as well realise the lack of even a timed fuze shell was bizzare.
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And a rangefinder for the QF 3.7 Ram aswell… Other equivalents already got rangefinders (VFW, Flak 37 and YaG-10)
Yes very true. Though I think any buff at all would push it to 5.7 but that wouldn’t be the end of the world frankly. What gets and what does not get a rangefinder seems quite varied. In game it seems to mainly be limited to those tanks with integral rangefinders, as well as heavy AA guns seem to get them for free except the Ram 3.7 inch and arguably the Chi-Ha LG (being a 12cm multi role naval gun rather than a dedicated heavy AA gun)
IRL nearly all German tanks you can usually find a picture of them with a the Scherenfernrohr 14 scissor rangefinder though that is a very functionally limited one so I am told (that is to say you’d get better results using the stadiametric functions rather than judging by the focus) and how many were issued I have no clue. But it is integrally fitted on things in game like Nashorn and Dicker max and not counted.
Also IRL wartime British tanks were apparently issued with Infantry Rangefinder No 12 at a rate of one per troop late in the war (so 1 in 4)
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