Now that it’s been announced, what do we know about the pl-12a?
Nothing, other than it’s better than Pl12. Next to nothing anyways, we can’t even distinguish 12A and 12AE RN.
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yep, lets hope its the pl12 ae
Come to think of it, is there even an official photo of the PL-12A? I cannot find anything about it aside from dubious English sources or just things not sourced at all. Allegedly it only has a better seeker, but that comes from one of those said sources.
Perhaps it might be the 12AE but designated 12A (in the blog, not irl) because the “E” could stand for export like on the PL-15E and PL-10E for example. This is just an assumption on my end however.
It’s kinda like saying there is a HQ-16F because the HQ-16FE exists, because I don’t think there is official proof of it too (at least from what I can find)
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Is the first image trying to say its a 12A? Cuz iirc that same image is used as proof that the 12AE uses the PL-15 booster, which I do know it has
Isn’t it also allegedly single stage too now?
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There is this, but iirc this is most likely just a display mislabel. It’s the only thing I could find remotely about the PL-12A
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don’t know, this is just a guess. the image just shows same length of rocket part. and suggests similar electronic/warhead cabins
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they really could have just fixed the pl-12
but whatever gaijin will never make a good change
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PL-5E
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Just something i found while going trough some older bugreports lol
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so we can assume that SD-10 != PL-12 != SD-10A
peak gajin
The SD10 is a shortened PL12 and the SD10A is an export PL12
Among the different information displayed, the missile is called SD10 or SD10(A), the real name is just SD10A but well, the developers are lazy. There were several minor improvements made to the PL12, which has always retained the same name thereafter; to put it simply, SD-10 = PL 12 early and SD-10A = PL 12 late
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i know how the dev of the Pl-12/SD-10 goes (also the SD-10 is not at all to be set the same as any kind of PL-12)
I wonder what that is supposed to be on the PL-5B below it
I’m pretty sure that’s a PL-2 but I don’t know what’s the use of that part. DL antenna maybe?
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Data link on a PL-2 sounds weird but it could well be an early attempt, or just some sort of data transfer for testing.
MAWS doesnt exist for them…just show how smart some mods are
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i was involved in that convo in the forums i know
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I was thinking that it could have been used in a ground based platform and maybe that’s why it has DL.