Four, South Africa.
You mean British Tree?
no SA
ah yeah, I forgot about them. Altought they bought only in a limited number for the SAF Gripen as a stop gap, we will probably see them at some point on that aircraft.
it is a possibility
Eh depending on definitions sake, maybe even 5 Hungary
They got Iris-T for the grippen as well and seems like many italian players are anticipating the addition of a hungarian air line, which might come at one time in the game.
And to go further what i said earlier, i am not saying the other nation shouldnt get IRIS-T, just that they might end up getting them 1-2 patches later after introduction like the R-73 was handled
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I do not think that hungary ever purchased them
there were plans to aquire them at one point, but i am not sure they went trough with the deals, one of the hungarian community member might know more about that matter
yeah no C-5.
now it is kind of unfortunate that this was decided before the purchase of like 969 AIM-120C-8s which i’ve mentioned before. I highly doubt that such a large amount of amraams will be for the 35 F-35s(which are meant for IDS anyways) so i am guessing that they’ll be integrated with Eurofighter. The decision to buy those hasn’t been made yet.
hungary signed a contract with Diehl in 2021 for the integration of IRIS-Ts on Hungarian Gripens.
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@Victory_799 did hungary end up integrating IRIS-T missles into the hungarian grippen? or was that only plans at one point that didnt go trough?
Ah yes You are right.
Saab states that “This upgrade will allow Hungary to choose from a wider selection of weapons to fit to their Gripens [such as] IRIS-T - infrared Within Visual Range (WVR)”
Ok, even If probably they are not integrated yet. I never saw a picture of the HUAF Jas39 with them, probably it’s just a matter of time
they might have already gotten the upgrade to use IRIS-T but not purchased any. I would expect this to be a purely or mostly software upgrade.
Same thing with with EFs though, 1 software update and it can carry other weapons but the countries migt require different evaluations and testing
just like with the brimstones, they were a standard software every eft already had from block 2 onwards if i remember right
Most likely
The first integration was P3Ea but that was Brimstone II. P3Ec apparently brings Brimstone III integration
During the original hashing out of the agreement the agreement was ‘that the UK will have the ability to successfully operate, upgrade, employ and maintain the joint strike fighter such that the UK retains operational sovereignty over the aircraft.’ This included the ability to integrate missile’s such as METEOR and SPEAR,
Then LM refused the export of the source code which is needed to do all of these things, the UK claimed violation of contract and the US government got involved and refused to change it. Too much had been bet on the JSF for us to pull out or kick off to any degree that would threaten our orders.
So now SPEAR and Meteor which the UK had always planned to integrate domestically ASAP can only be integrated by LM in Eglin Air Force Base. That wasn’t too much of an issue as after the contract violation they were supposed to be at the top of the pile. MBDA made both missiles compatible and shared the missiles software with LM.
Then more recently LM announced that they would be focusing on other aspects of the aircraft and the date slipped from 2020 (which was the UK-based timescale), to 2025, to now ‘by the end of the decade’ with the block 4 upgrades, which conveniently the AIM-260 will also be part of.
This is a slight oversimplification but you understand the gist. Its relevant to all European F-35’s particularly relevant for those in UK, German and Italian service which we see in-game.
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Yanks being yanks I guess. The F-35 has been a disaster from start to finish, I hope we’ve learnt some lessons from it (probably not).
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I don’t know much about the specific details of modern Hungarian equipment, I mostly know about their WW2 equipment instead. @PacketlossRedux or @Csirkespite or @atta26hu may know the answer to your question.
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