Here’s a picture from a book I have
‘The image shows cargo options intended for the export version to South Africa. In beam mode 1 Python-4, In beam mode 2 R-Darter and in beam mode 3 the attack robot Spice’
Obviously just a graphic but still cool
‘The image shows cargo options intended for the export version to South Africa. In beam mode 1 Python-4, In beam mode 2 R-Darter and in beam mode 3 the attack robot Spice’
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God knows then, possibly IRIS-T was a new-ish acquistion or there was an overlap. Or maybe SAAF was planning on going with Python/Darter but changed their minds. Either way, I dont think its changing from Aim-9M anytime soon
Give up on understanding the SA Gripen. Documentation’s abysmal.
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Yeah, and not much I really want from SAAF anyway. Buc S.50 looks fun, but only because of the booster rocket.
" Variant for South Africa with manually folding wings and could be equipped with two single-stage rockets to assist take-off from hot-and-high airfields." - https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/heritage/blackburn-buccaneer
This book is really cool actually, there’s tons of history and rare graphics of the Gripen, the AMX is also in there from when it was known as SAAB 38
Book also explains essentially every part of the Gripen on multiple pages, including cockpit stuff
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Honestly they should have just done the Sea harrier the last update, instead of the black box of SA Gripen. Already had most of the work done for another sea harrier, and would have actually been British. Get why, but this Gripen confusing.
Yeah… I think they just dug themselves into a GIANT hole. Gripen C was the only solution (that didnt take a massive amount of effort as it was coming anyway for Sweden, thus the Gripen A C&P for now)
but yeah, I hope they dont fill our tree with commonwealth stuff. Odd one now and again is fine, but I dont want the next 10 to be commonwealth
Shall leave the Girpen cockpit bug reports to you then, Im sure they will screw up the Cs cockpit
I kind of do want them to add more commonwealth stuff. I really want to play Australian kit, I like our stuff. But they seem averse to actually giving commonwealth stuff relating to any of the more well known commonwealth territories. Would rather just straight UK vehicles if they’re only going to show some commonwealth kit.
Not to mention our Abrams went to the yanks.
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True, quite a few Canadian stuff I would enjoy.
lol. I have not bug reported screens and all the obvious stuff, I bet Gaijin already knows those things are inaccurate. I did bug report the HUD, a spelling mistake and the HMD which it should have (Like F16C in sim)
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/bKZNyEpeqxFV
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/YTeMQojCkzSH
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/c6cw1h3STdAr
Yep, Id wait till March. I reckon it will just happen to be fixed in the same update the Gripen C comes to Sweden
Just watch it only be fixed for Britain. Entirely prepared to be fucked over.
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Yeah, thats my only report for now with the Gripen C
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/prpyCUh5oK6o
Though I think its all aircraft, or at least I think was experiencing it in the tornado F3, though only did a 20 minute match last night, shall report fully in a few days when its playable.
Also some other cool stuff in the book I haven’t seen online, like it’s landing speed at 185km/h, mention of it’s engines ‘war mode’ where it can get extra thrust in exchange for life-span
I think quite a few aircraft have that. I think the Tornado’s do for example, but its just not modeled in game.
Yeah, I just thought it was cool because I believe it was never mentioned on a source online aside from posts from people on forums, this is the first ‘official’ mention of it that I know of
Still could be worth a bug report at some point. Maybe in future we’ll get “combat thrust” modeled.
afaik other jets that also had It irl doesn’t in game so I don’t think Gaijin plans on it. I also know that the details of the Gripens war mode are classified
I hope they make the landing-distance accurate though, I believe it’s war longer than it should be rn