We might meet :). Enjoy the expo
What expo is this?
Based on the french part:
"VL Mica is an air defense suitable for a wide sprectrum of threats
Technical specification:
- 360° coverage thanks to its vertical launch system
- Multi-target engagement capacity
- IR and EM Seeker - All weather capacity
Major assets:
- Combat/already proven (aux “performance demontrées”) performance of MICA missile
- Fire and Forget capacity and missile control (can’t read what is next to this)
- Quick and simply to deploy and reload.
"
That’s all.
I opened the image in another tab and tried to read it, but couldn’t make out a single letter. How did you do it?
Did the same, but the french part is more readable than the english part, which is easier for me.
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The thing going up is a new MLRS missile proposal. Can go to 130km with metric precision (according to the video of its presentation below on the other side of this image).
I’ll try to capture that part of the video when I go back later during the week
Try pasting it in ChatGPT, it could be able to read it.
Are you an exhibitor there?
I found it always crazy the outside KNDS and THALES stand, which are full building made only for 5 days
I am not. I am a student and it’s free for us to go there. And then you just have to look like you are supposed to be there and you can go in about every stand no issues. Except Arquus for some reason (sad face emoji). It’s actually pretty chill overall
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Only the EX is able to use that many AMRAAM, and that’s not been proved yet:
Best photos ever found is about 16 AMRAAM, not 20.
Well but on this one you do not have the 2 external wing ones.
I do not found any photo with the 20 AMRAAM, or at least minimum the pods on all stores.
There is also the demo from the St Louis air show with the F-15 Advanced demonstration jet carrying 12 AMRAAMs including 4 on stations 1 and 9. Tis could very easily have been the full 20 if they had put the double rails on stations 2 and 8 and if they had installed the CFTs with double racks.
The point is the 20 missile configuration 100% is possible.
I don’t say it is not possible by the Weaponnary Management systems and by adding all Dual pods on every possible stores,…
I’m saying that actually none have flown with such configuration, currently i don’t remember ifthe AIM-120 is on rail or dropped before ignition.
Both. It is ejected before ignition on the fuselage stations, but ignites on the rail from wing stations.
Then that might be the reason why we don’t see such configuration of 20 AMRAAM Yet,…
The dual pod seems to be using rails, and not ejecting systems
Therefore it makes currently no senses to use railed Dual pod on underneath Frame stores
They currently might not have the Dual Pod with Ejecting system that goes under there.
We can found 20 AMRAAM only on synthethized Pictures, and not on actual in-flight photos.
It’s thinked to be 20 AMRAAM, but currently only have access to 16.
Anyway, let’s back on topic : Rafale F.4 have 2 more stores for missiles than the previous standards
They don’t have to be ejected from the airframe if they are on the CFT dual racks there. They are carried far enough from the airframe for successful separation and are distanced far enough front and back to ignite without interference. They are only ejected from the airframe in single store configuration off of the LAU-106