Except if, as the paper states, all the R&D was already done and paid for in the 1990s, and if it just so happens that they were about to open a production line for statoreactors in the stratus program anyway
Ukraines air force is going to be like something from Ace combat.
F-16, Gripen, Rafale, Mirage 2000, MiG 29
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And Egypt as well. It is actually an interesting strategy. If you’re willing to put up with the complicated logistic and maintenance, buying war gear from multiple countries mean you’re not dependant on any of them, and if one end up on the opposite side in a conflict, you can always rely on the rest of your fleet.
It guarantees some form of independance. Of course, for Ukraine, it’s another matter entirely.
Stratus RS seems to be the one receiving liquid ramjet and looks like is the cause of the delay.
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apparently one journalist asked about Comet during the same event, and MBDA answered along the lines of “enlarged / boosted MICA” so the rascale program theory in fact doesn’t hold
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What does this “boosted” part mean?
quite honestly i don’t know
Could be a MICA NG strapped to a booster, could be an elongated MICA NG (3 pulse ?)
It’s not going to be based on Aster booster (too large for aircraft, and the booster is loosely attached to the dart on this missile). MBDA confirmed Aster is a big no-go
If we go the enlarged route, it would just be a “bigger MICA” so it would look similar to a S530D, maybe thinner, less wing span, and most likely with dual / triple pulse
…that is not all of it, right
Lmaooooooo how did you do that? I just recently meme’d some loadout from Ask3lad mission editor.
Not from me, but from a friend. You can apparently have a lot of fun editing stuff in test flight if you know what you are doing
Yeah, unfortunately just rely on some 3rd party program, but either way that’s cool lol. How insanely draggy carrying more than 12 missiles. It’s basically becoming a flying SAM rather than fighter jet now.
This looks vaguely reasonable and that concerns me.
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There’s speculation that the new munition type confirmed to be coming by BVVD possibly could be cluster munition, so here’s pictures of the Rafale with 2 Apache missiles under its wings from a Dassault book:
Spoiler
Theoretically nothing prevents it from being put under centerline pylon like the SCALP-EG since it is very very similar to that, but I haven’t found any pictures of it under the centerline pylon.
Weapon has cluster munitions, is stealth similar to the SCALP, has same turbojet engine as SCALP, 100km+ range, uses millimetre radar.
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Have not seen this. Who is doing the speculating?
If correct though, would be nice to see BAP and Belouga.
The usual speculators in next-update rumor threads, discords, YouTube. Smin has confirmed that the new weapon type wasn’t going to be next gen IR missiles, so there’s that.
It would be odd to see clusters based on only this, especially in the current server situation. Would be cool tho.
Especially with how poorly depicted Tochka’s warhead was in NE.
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