He’ll need it. This is GJN’s standard bias antics. Their source is they believe it should be this way.
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I mean, maybe they have a source would be nice to see it tho…
BOL IR acts like a chaff packet, it creates a large cloud of pyrophoric material on ejection. If they want to reduce the effectiveness per packet they would first need to massively increase the capture area. One change without the other is an unnecessary nerf.
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Yeah, this is something they need to communicate better on, we need to see sources rather than just hearing ‘our sources say…’
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That would be nice, in a situation where a bunch of people want it they may at least tell the name of the source
Probably a source that also says the content of BOL chaff packets is aluminium…
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3 LONG Mental steps later and TES backplate is made from aluminium
/j
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@warhead_beast @John_Sneeeeeeeew @x_Shini I think these would be the UK buying Taurus for us so that we can donate Storm Shadow as the production lines are closed and we are relying on our limited stocks (MoD moment) ahead of the new naval anti-ship missile due in 2028.
Not sure why they wouldn’t just divert funding to speeding up FSP of the new one in that case though.
Yeah, that is most likely what will happen.
We shall see what happens with it, kinda pathetic that we have to rely on a Cruise Missile of a foreign nation which directly rivals our own because the MoD don’t understand forward planning and timescales.
I think they announced that they have accelerated it: Subsonic land-attack missile ISD hopefully for 2028 - anti-ship and supersonic parts of the project going on the backburner
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Yeah its 2028 now and not 2030 something but thats still like 4 years for the land attack version.
My laymans mind cannot comprehend how a project takes literally 20 years to field a missile which uses technologies we had in the 2010’s. Like they aren’t even sure its going to be supersonic anymore, how can you not know your basic requirement when there are nations utilising right now, hypersonic missiles.
The missiles are all the same thing, so its not dependence on Germany, more the fact Germany refuses to send theirs so we buy it, probably for very cheap then send ours more freely
That does sound like something they would do. Storm shadows been kicking ass in Ukraine
Just got smacked by an r24t through dropping a lot of countermeasures with harrier. When you said the pods were nerfed, didn’t think that nerfed. Second favourite aircraft, now even more of a headache in uptier.
Ah damn, and now the Harrier Gr7 is 11.7 in SB up from 11.0. This really isnt going to be fun
Yeah it was fun in sim, not the most effective but fun. Now it is just not going to be worth touching which sucks.
Its going up against few other 11.7s. So mostly 11.3s .So its probably not going to be too bad. but the lack of radar has always made that aircraft a bit of a chore. Kinda wish it got a T-Pod upgrade. even just TIALD 500.