It’s possible, but maiby a spanish Efa will be a better option for Germany since they have more Trance and better lodouts
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Spain would be a better option for Germany to get a good one seeing as they have more of the DASS features, better loadouts etcetera. Italy could then get the Kuwaiti one as you’ve mentioned.
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spanish F/a 18 would be nicr because of their A2G ordenance, so that would work for me
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P4E System Definition phase has just been contracted earlier this year so we dont know if it will even have AMK. (Eurofighter GmbH does not mention AMK in the article about P4E SD Eurofighter and NETMA Progress Next Capability Enhancement Package For Typhoon | Eurofighter Typhoon)
T4+/T5 will be built to whatever standard is available and mature at that time. if thats P4E then P4E but there is a good chance that it will be P3Ec
and again, i havent seen t4+/t5 for the Lw cited to have PIRATE
if by that you mean PIRATE then sure but otherwise its the same. Spanish EFs dont have LWS, they have placeholders. This is done because its easier and cheaper to retrofit LWS to them if they want to because they wouldn’t need to buy new panels
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I wonder how much Money Gaijin/warthunder. are going to lose to DCS over their refusal to act.
None, the WT Eurofighter will come first, as DCS development timelines are significantly longer than WT ones. DCS is also a significantly smaller market than WT, with DCS having an avg player count of like, 1000, peaking at 2k, and WT an avg player count of ~59k, peaking at 92k (both from stemCharcts over the last 30 days).
DCS is talked a lot as “the other plane game” but as a DCS content creator and iirc mod once said “DCS only exists at this point because WT allows it to exist”.
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I meant that the Austrian ones don’t even have MAWS or the Towed Decoys. Literally just the CM dispensers.
how does the austrian one matter tho
As i see it war thunder is the casual and DC is the more hardcore simulator part of the community simple as that.
Of course more people will be more inclined to start with the more casual war thunder.
Even more if you consider possible price tags of simulator gear.
But on the backside people starting with war thunder might be more inclined to switch to dcs at one point.
Once they got into the genre
Possible premium eft for germany
dont think thats gonna happen
Thats debatable. WT is the bigger game, it has the most support, and it continues to grow bigger and faster than DCS likely ever could. It also does some things just outright better than DCS with regards to air combat, with vastly superior IR modelling for example, and with the most recent change to start implementing realistic MFD’s in aircrafts, its beginning to encroach on DCS territory.
DCS, realistically speaking, is a cockpit button clicking sim, THATS what makes it hard to get into. Its very detailed on the aspects of air combat that most people dont particularly care for. It does have some other things going for it, such as much bigger/better maps, and better strike objectives and the likes, but thats about it. Its actually more likely DCS players end up playing WT than the other way around, particularly as ppl grow up and have less time in their days to dedicate to reading a flight manual for a jet that took 3+ years to release.
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When and which eurofighter will most likely get AESA in the german tech tree? I heard germany upgraded their older tranche 1,2s
There is no aesa typhoon yet.
Neither germany, uk,italy or spain haa them
UK has one currently conducting flight trials with the ECRS Mk. 2
(But yes technically not in service yet)
And according to Hensoldt the first were delivered for Export typhoons to Kuwait and Quatar
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It will be firstly the Tranche 4 then the 2 and 3 (I don’t even know if we even have any Tranche 1s still flying around)
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Its in the same state as in germany, i am aware
Various nations have at least a unit equipped with an Aesa radar (Italy, Germany and the UK have at least one if not more) and then there are as You mentioned the Kuwait and Qatar units with the ECRS MK0.
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can we expect aesa typhoons in war thunder then?
not at first, the radar is a damn fine mechanical one though, so the Euro fighters won’t be too held back by it
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