When did the RAF start operating B lightnings?
RN and friends over Sweden when they went to do air combat training as part of a euro exercise.
Bottom photo is from 120B and BOL trials at Point M USA.
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Like 2018
The RAF?
Is it not the fleet air arm of the royal navy?
Yes
Currently there’s only one badged Fleet Air Arm squadron operating F-35 (809 NAS). The rest are all RAF squadrons
Personnel at all squadrons are a mix from both services, but naturally with operations at Marham led by the RAF, and operations from the carriers led by RN
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It’s a joint venture I googled lol
That is the one and only CRL/BOL photo I have ever seen, very nice find.
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Same, other than the Swedish ones on Gripen (that ironically still aren’t being used on Gripen ingame)
I see what we used was a bit more rudimentary, without the more blended/aerodynamic fairings. More or less just plugging the one from the existing sidewinder LAU-7BOL/LAU-138 into the back of CRL
Also @Gunjob
What would be the chances of getting the original extended wingtips and 4 X wing mounted amraam.
This was the original intent with Frs.2. The extended wingtip that were fitted and tested would have allowed the carriage of dual mounted AMRAAM.
However we scrapped the wingtips and the dual mount amraam was too unstable to be acceptable.
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Yeah that would be BOL-304, you can tell it apart from say BOL-500 at the “BOL” end of the rail.
BOL-500;
Spoiler
BOL-500 in a MFRL;
Where as the FA2 had the CRL/BOL which took the BOL304 end and added it to the CRL;
BOL-304A you can see here how the BOL-304A attaches to the LAU-7;
And your photo matches the description of it being a BOL-304 modified into a CRL;
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So we just made it work lol.
Very late reply I know
I think there was a report a long time ago, just after they randomly and incorrectly updated the mass. Claim based on initial mass of vehicle in-game, earlier A.45 (55t) and estimates based on real life info.
Centurion Mk 3 turret weighs 12.7t (REME and model forum)
FV200 GT testbed weighed 45.7t. The testbed was a base hull - meteorite engine (835.1kg) + No2979 GT engine (2540kg) and a bunch of gubbins welded on for test gear
2540 - 835.1 = 1704.9kg
45.7t - 1.7t = 44t (43,995.1kg)
Add the turret back in and you get 56.7t
(FV200 Turbine Test Vehicle - Tank Encyclopedia)
British Tanks
Tank, Medium Gun, FV221 Caernarvon - Tank Encyclopedia
Rolls-Royce Meteor - Wikipedia
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does meteor get gnss and 2 way like aim 120d
It has definitely got 2 way datalink, I’m not sure about GPS guidance.
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I don’t think Gaijin model Lambda Compensation directly, but the whole point of Lambda Compensation is to stop the missile pulling so hard that it inadvertently puts the target outside the gimbal limits. As far as I know missiles in game won’t carry out a maneuver which will result in it pointing more than it’s max look angle away from the target.
So in essence the outcome of Lambda Compensation is modelled
Yes but it says 25G almost directly off the rail.
Would it then be able to hit higher off boresight targets?