I would assume they’re going from the aam4b seekerhead, to a seekerhead similar to the one found on mica em ng
The JNAAM Project ended 1-2 years ago already.
Japan has started development of a new next gen BVR missile since then.
Adding “Rafale B/C/M F.4” that basically unifies all F.4.x sub-standards would be ideal.
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So looking more closely, the Meteor MLU is not officially under development with specifications set in stone as of yet. Proposals for what it will include was set to be done for the end of this year. I guess we will get a more appropriate timeline by then.
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Yes, that is exactly what’s gonna happen it seems. An improved version of the MICA-NG EM AESA’s seeker is planned for it.
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i did not say that
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Ah, it was an assumption on my part since you said to ask the Brits. The Meteor MLU involves UK, Germany, Sweden, and France. Maybe I’m forgetting others.
Are they developing that missile alone?
well yeah, they are the main part of the meteor programm, who get the most information out of it most likely.
Germany uses them as well, still britians likely are more knowledgeable about it.
Same like the european guys likely would come to germany for boxer information.
Many participants, but most handled by germany
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As far as I know, at the moment they do.
MBDA UK led project right?
So yeah, probably would see english news articiles about from time to time, Though havent yet. Kinda like how I dont see things about rafale or German Typoons etc because they are in French and German Respectively.
Long life the german confirmed AMK EFT
I gonna bet Gaijin will add Rafale C F4 in the winter that pretty much don’t bring anything new to War Thunder except probably its A2G Munitions, just like how Mirage 2000-5F at release day, it’s pretty much just a Mirage 2000C-S5 with a MPRF Radar lol up until it got better CM Count, 4 Magic 2, and finally MICA-EM.
The only way I could see gaijin adding the Rafale F4 would be with new missiles like MICA IR and Meteor so that its noticeably different to the in-game “French” F3R, which should put its introduction pretty far off barring the quasi F4 we already have in-game.
They could always surprise me though, since they haven’t handled the Rafale situation in general with any scrap of intelligence in the first place, and seem to have no intention to do so anytime soon either.
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More likely they add a earlier variant with pesa radar, like they should have from the start in my opinion
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All adding a variant with pesa would’ve done is reduce max number of missiles.
Pesa and aesa are modeled the exact same in game (currently) so the radar would still be oppressive.
Heck the su30sm currently has the fastest scan speed in the game as a pesa, with more than 200 degrees a second in its widest scan mode
I’d expect:
- Rafale F1 or F2 with what we currently have
- Rafale F3R gets mica ir when we get others new gen ir missiles
- Rafale F4 with mica ng and perhaps meteors, depends where the meta is at that time
- Rafale F5 in a long time with full set
Is there really that much of a difference between gan and gaas aesa? I’ve seen people glazing the su-57s GaN l band aesa arrays, but what difference would going from GaAs to GaN even do?
Feel like going from pesa to aesa is already more than a big enough jump
When France had went from RBE2 PESA to RBE2 AESA, the radar range gain was 50%+.
France is expected to go from RBE2 AESA to RBE2-XG (for Rafale F5) with radar range gain of 70%+.
So the radar range addition from GaA to GaN is bigger than PESA to AESA.
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Here’s an article that goes into the technical details but my general understanding is that, with the current available tech of GaAs and GaN radars, GaN radars are more powerful, reliable, and efficient, while GaAs radars excel at things that require low-noise like EW, and are cheaper to produce, and a more mature technology. I could be missing some key details though, since I havent done a whole lot of digging into this stuff yet, and am basically just giving a TLDR of the linked article.
So, with my current understanding, GaN radars will likely have no real advantages in WT with the current state of maps and radar modelling.
Sorta off-topic blurb:
Interestingly, the ECRS Mk.0 is a GaAs radar, the ECRS Mk.1 is a GaN radar, and the ECRS Mk.2 is a hybrid GaN/GaAs radar. The better EW performance of GaAs radars might explain why despite Germany developing the ECRS Mk.1, and selecting it as its next EFT radar, they are allegedly buying 15 ECRS Mk.2’s, presumably for the Eurofighter EK, which would make sense, since the jet is supposed to be a dedicated EW/SEAD variant of the EFT.
@Flame2512 or @Gunjob would probs know more details iirc.
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simply afaik, GaN can allow higher voltages than GaAs
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