So what did the SWIFT do? Was it basically just the L/I equivalent?
I’ve spent the last couple of years trying to work that out. All I know for sure is that it was a British IRCCM modification, and it saw some amount of service.
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Yeah I thought so plus an integrated gun, slats, guided air to ground armament in the form of paveways and Mavericks, and 200 more countermeasures…
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Not too mention the Tornado F3 Arguement for the Phantoms.
(FGR2 I think also could get AGM-12s, would be a big buff for A2G)
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Yeah just a total fustercluck on the phantoms.
Im hoping the Atlas Cheetah will solve that issue soon enough.
I just hope getting that doesnt result in us missing out on something British, like we’ve had with the Ground Tree since SA was added.
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To be fair there is next to nothing else british for the 11.3 bracket. The UK did to the Phantom and Tornado what we did to the Cr.2 and just pretended to upgrade it so it stayed “modern” until we got something new.
Historically the US based fighters at Lakenheath which would have supported with Tornados intercepting bombers and FG phantoms doing whatever they could.
Atlas Cheetah would be the only fighter I can think of for this area.
Rank 6 though still has numerous British potential additions.
True, but as we saw in 2023. We are lucky if we get 2 or 3 additions for entire TT at any BR. Im just afraid that the Cheetah would replace the Hawk, Gnat, Vulcan or even something really low, like a Barracuda or Mosquitto bomber.
Just dubious about getting SA stuff when we have so much important stuff we could be geting instead.
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im seeing if we can get a sea harrier with magic 2s
Yeah I’d prefer the Gnat, Hawk, Type 545, Sea Vixen FAW.1 or CAC-27 to the Cheetah but only marginally.
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Maybe as a Premium I reckon
Personally believe that the Hawk would be the best and easiest thing they could add. It’s all the same aircraft even between Hawk 100 and 200. From what I can tell it’s analogous to the Skyhawk with the low weight and good A/G armaments.
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it would be nice addition to the game
Slow, large and unmanoverable cruise missiles are an entirely different topic to air-to-air missiles that are much faster, smaller and pulling high Gs themselves in attempt to hit their target.
Not to mention that ASRAAM, like most modern SRAAM, has LOAL, so this says nothing about lock on range either.
I have my doubts that either IRIS-T nor ASRAAM can generate a direct hit against enemy AAMs, but ASRAAMs laser proximity fuse is much more likely to not trigger
I looked in the IRIS-T brochure, it outright says
The seeker assisted radar proximity fuze and the large warhead give the missile a remarkable anti-missile capability.
Which kinda confirms my theory that it can still fuse on a near miss where a laser proximity fuse wouldnt. Doesnt make sense otherwise to even go for radar proxy, its so much worse in terms of ECM and chaff resistance (though the seeker assistance probably helps with that)
Woooo space engineers :D
I have a larger set of LCD’s behind me for some other images. Any suggestions anyone? It’s 2x3 but I can make it larger if need be (up to 3x4)
Put a massive face of the king
Interesting proposition.