But did it use the SF while in the RN or was it just too late?
I think Skyflash came into service around the same time that the Royal Navy retired the carriers, so Skyflash was likely an RAF thing for the FG.1.
There must have been some overlap as the FG.1 was retired on the 27th of November 1978 and the SF was put into service in 1978. I think it’s more likely it was procured earlier in the year. So probably only 4 months at most before they were given to the RAF.
Were the FG.1’s redesignated to FGR.2’s or did they keep the naval name?
If they were changed to the FGR.2 designation then in game you probably can’t get the aim-9l’s on the FG.1
We also really need more maps with carriers to spawn on, its fun to take off from them in an actual game :D
The FG1 kept its designation. There was still multiple differences between the FG1 and FGR2.
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So, in my opinion, the only thing keeping the British phantoms from having Aim-9L’s is purely balance related, if they get L’s they will most likely go up in br and will be terrible, i think right now they are in a good spot, clearly better than the tornado in my experience and the IR missiles they have now are more than enough to get kills with :)
Maybe 11.7 with 9L’s will be fine.
I still don’t see why a hardwing phantom with no HMS and a gunpod needs to go up just because it gets 9L’s.
Like the MLA is infinitely better to fly, faster, has better flight performance in all regimes but acceleration at low speed, whilst having 2 much more reliable SARH’s and 4 all aspect missiles. And they expect us to believe that the FG phantoms getting 9L’s would warrant them going up to 11.7, the same br as the F-14…
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I dont think it should go up, I just know gaijin would put it up.
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Cause Gaijin considered Aim-9L’s to be a massive upgrade for fighters.
They’ve literally stated giving it 9L’s would require a BR increase.
Man, you must have every book possible to do with UK military vehicles
Need to start your own thread, just for a book club :P
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No, I still need mooooreeee XD
per example hush kit guide of warplanes v2
or the haynes on various other vehicles
and more about the harriers in the falklands
Also I have a bunch of these (German military history magazines I got from the father of my ex girlfriend)
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I’d take it very happily but why was it under guard when it worse worse than even a meteor MK.1?
Skyhawks touches briefly on the fact that the RN was still susceptible to low-level approaches from Skyhawks even after Argentina was doing that in the Falklands.
Then again, it also mentions the RN being susceptible to those prior to the Falklands, so eh.
Wait the brits bought and used Sabres? And not just some, over 300 F-86Es were ordered and delivered
Dont tell me i am the only one that wasnt aware of that
Does sound resonable, the sam missles of the RN failed often during the Falklands campaing. Since the Sea Cat was so widespread, the only really good missle defence they had was Sea Dart of the Type 82 destroyers. Until Sea Wolf came along and heli borne AWACS solutions in form of this beauty
came around, the frigates really laked any kind of potant surface to air systems
In both cases it was a carrier they targeted.
The first time was HMS Eagle in August 1971, taking part in EX Southern Clime. Two Skyhawks had departed to act as decoys at the edge of Eagle’s radar range to draw off the Sea Vixens aboard, while six other Skyhawks skirted around Eagle by going far out into the Tasman, then dropped down to 50 ft as they made their run in. When the six Skyhawks arrived at Eagle, the Sea Vixens were in the process of landing, leaving the carrier essentially unprotected.
The second case was more awkward for the RN.
Now we’re in November 1983, and HMS Invincible was arriving for exercises. So the decision was made to carry out what was now a customary mock attack - they’d done the same thing to the cruiser USS Texas only a few months prior - and in the process earned themselves a debriefing once Invincible had docked, as the RN was rather interested in just how a bunch of Skyhawks had still managed to get close without being detected.
This continued up until at least 1989, with the RNZAF repeating the act during EX Vanguard '89.
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