The UK doesn’t have any plans on procuring the JSM afaik
Carriers need screening ships the Type 45s are armed with CAMM-ER and Aster missiles for defensive purposes and for offensive the NSM.
F-35 can also intercept naval strike missiles with it’s Radar and payload options.
Its powered that alone means it has much wider capability range, but america doesnt really need that, they have more specialized weapons for everything the spear 3 can do, and for a low cost cruise missile the payload is a bit small and the seeker a bit overkill.
The first Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft, destined to serve with the RAF, has arrived at RAF Lossiemouth on 21 May 2026. The aircraft was flown to RAF Lossiemouth by a mixed crew of personnel from Boeing UK and the RAF from STS Aviation Services at Birmingham Airport. The Wedgetail AEW Mk1 is the RAF’s next-generation airborne early warning and control aircraft, designed to deliver long-range surveillance, battle management, and command and control for air and joint operations
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Call me old-skool but I prefer the E-3. A smaller plane with a better modern radar (allowing them to do the same thing with half the size - STOP giggling at the back!) makes sense on every level.
BUT
The Sentry was a big, old, almost stately thing. Yes, I know I’m mad. I’ll show myself out.
As you were gents.
When Type 45 was being rolled out (amidst cutting the production run down to the x6) much was made about it being able to track and intercept golf ball-sized targets. Someone who shall remain nameless stuck their hand up at the end of one of those ‘death-by-powerpoint’ presentations.
“That’s all very well, but are the Chinese/Russians going to be chucking golf balls at us?”
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I think they’ve forgotten about these two reports.
Something tells me we wont see the martel get it for “reasons” such as “but the Bucc BR would go up” ignoring that pretty much everything else it does, other planes do better or you can just uptier the S.2 version for toss bomb fun anyway.
I do hope we get Martel with it, but I am not going to be shocked if not.
Can’t we KH-38 it?
Y’know, find some really dodgy blogpost and blurry photo that says the Bucc actually carried ALCM or something similarly comical? …
Wait a minute chaps, I’ve just got an idea. Opens up MS Paint. Cue the A-Team Music
Okay gents. I have found in my not-inconsiderable personal archive a marketing image of the Buccaneer S.4L
This has Olympus Engines (trust me bro), full supersonic capability and a highly advanced Stealth Coating that looks suspiciously like EDSG but really isn’t. Plus it has tactical lasers under each wing.
I think you will all agree that this matches and indeed exceeds the evidence given for the KH-38MT.
I shall be taking no questions.
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It’ll be a peak Gaijin-moment if the Martel gets no datalink, but the Bucc still has to carry the giant datalink pod with Martel
Looking forward to Wildcat coming to the tree in future now it will have functional Sea Venom and maybe Spike NLOS/Exactor.
I wonder if we can argue for limited FnF Brimstones.
Mark a target with a laser, the last Brimstone fired becomes FnF onto that target when it gets within 9ish km.
Essentially what this mechanic will do for all other missiles its being added too, but they only need to keep LoS with the weapon not the target.
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The response to players asking for Brimstone to get it’s mmW guidance, even if that means giving it an artificial nerf and letting smoke obscure the seeker to keep it in line with TV/IR guidance:
Meanwhile gaijin happily admitting to artificially withholding MITL mechanics from ground vehicles in the interest of balance:
This is a single example, but there are countless other examples of Gaijin artificially nerfing something in the interest of overall game health. There is no reason whatsoever that the same thing can’t be done with FnF brimstones, it simply seems to be a headscratching double standard currently.
(Note - this is NOT asking for Brimstone to get their mad dog / LOAL capability. That would indeed be broken but is a completely different ballpark to mmW FnF capabilities)
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Whenever the argument came up they would put these two together, acting as if they were inseparable. The fact you have to mention it shows lol.
Yeah.
“We never artificially nerf things”
Reduces BOLs effectiveness by 75%
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The post for the dev forum regarding Brimstones is ready to go. Their arguments look really really stupid when laid out clearly.
(and I think we should also expect AJ168 too.)
All tank smoke grenades block TV and IR guided munitions, to my knowledge this isn’t the case for all smoke grenades irl?
So why not just make all smoke grenades block MMw? If it’s already not realistic what’s the issue?
Pantsir SM will mince them all regardless.
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Precisely the argument that Gaijin ignores and shoves their head in the sand whenever anyone mentions it
I think you are barking up the wrong tree in response to this devblog. At best, this new MITL business gives you very rudimentary LOAL for a single munition at a time, requiring some manual fiddling and a maintained LoS. This is very different to actual full LOAL like mode 3 Brimstone, where the entire payload can be ripple fired from behind terrain and acquire targets smartly and automonously without the launch aircraft ever once exposing itself.
What we should be arguing for is mode 2 Brimstone, which requires a lase to initiate the lock, and then once the Brimstone is launched guidance can be handed over to the mmW seeker. With appropriate balancing of mmW seeker capabilities (for example, partial or full obfuscation by smoke) this would be no different to current FnF capabilities provided by IR seekers, and in fact it would be slightly worse, as the initial lase would trigger the LWS for tanks that have it, unlike IR munitions, where there is no warning whatsoever.
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