Probably not sadly.
Thales also gives a similar example for the Marltet, saying it can penetrate “almost 6” of the shown blocks of steel.
Those must be around 100mm thick each, thats some pretty good pen for a small missile.
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Real shame there isnt a tandem warhead variant, i imagine it would really struggle against ERA in War Thunder. Better than nothing though for sure.
Tbh that doesn’t look thicker than 50mm to me.
I guess that is largely what LMM is for
They are referring to LMM
I thought it was Starstreak, my bad
Martels don’t have infinite fuel, but their burn time is so long that it may aswell have, as it in practice it hits the target before it burns out
The sustain motor burns for 92 seconds IRL.
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Hello, quick question about the English Jaguars, I’m preparing a bug report because it seems that the French Jaguars can equip the BOZ 103 countermeasures pod in internal wing points. Does anyone know if the English version can also use this ?
BOZ pods to my knowledge require a control panel installation (see tornado), certainly have nothing primary to confirm any BOZ usage on British Jaaaaaags.
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Okay, thanks for the info, for the integration on the French version there are no official documents that talk about it but there are photos and many testimonies that attest to the use of BOZ, I don’t know if it will be enough to add it.
EDIT : I have an official source who talks about the use of the BOZ in the case of SEAD missions without naming any particular aircraft, but the only aircraft that was flying these missions at that time was the Jaguar.
Don’t think it’s something that was ever done with our Jags. Apart from Tornado I’ve only seen BOZ on Canberra PR.9 and Nimrod MR.2
IIRC the French Jaguars that carried BOZ were using it to generate “chaff corridors” during strikes, until France developed Barax and Barracuda ECM for Jaguar in the 80s. Where in the UK we already had jamming pods by the time BOZ-107 was introduced to the RAF for Tornado alongside Sky Shadow (~1985 or there abouts).
So there wasn’t the same initial need for it on RAF Jaguar as there was for the French - pairing AN/ALQ-101 + Phimat had been sufficient from the late 1970s, and continued to be until Jaguar retired.
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Yes exactly, it is testimonies of this use that made me discover this use on the French Jaguars, they used it with the CT-51 before the introduction of the more modern jammers
New report is live.
Implementing “Sidewinder Expanded Acquisition Mode” (SEAM)
It may impact the UK F-4’s and Harrier’s, if I can find more info which should improve SRM Acquisition speeds, I’ll follow it with it’s counterpart for the increased Field of Regard while Slaved shortly.
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@SwingfireOP I’ll reply here as Brimstone isn’t the topic of the KH-38MT thread.
But it can ID specific types of vehicle, we’ve already covered this extensively.
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Awesome! I didn’t known it could tell different tanks apart. That’s pretty freakin amazing.
Would still be OP as hell though. Deleting every t-72 in one pass would be a touch game breaking I think. 🤣
I will now return to the topic at hand.
Oh I completely agree, I’m not sure how you balance it, other than to make it a game convention that chaff smoke systems are effective against it because IRL they aren’t;
But even then the gameplay style for mmW Brimstone guidance is very difficult to counter from the ground, boarding on not possible other than hard kill APS.
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As long as we can delete SB Convoys with a Brimstone volley, I really dont care how they balance them for GRB :P
Even if that means restricting them to only be usable in air modes
i would actually play sim if they added this and maybe the prox fuze to the brim 2s when they eventually come. (me assuming the tornado could carry the 2s maybe?). would make deleting convoys so cathartic as i can actually play my tornado and maybe have some fun finally.