the ECR is being developed and that is going to need some sort of ARM. it might get HARMs integrated as a “stopgap” measure because the Lw has stock of those but we’ll see. iirc 2025 or 2028 was the predicted year for it
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I found some interesting files, maybe 10+ years old sales brochuers.
Naval EF is really interesting.(never developed btw)
did gaijin blocked uploading pdf files? I cannot upload my pdf files.
I think they placed a cap on it, might be worth putting it in a public folder and then sending that link.
here it is
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Germany just ordered 969 AIM-120C-8, i am not sure if those are newer version or which ones were used before since most articles i find just refer to AMRAAMS in general
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Why would they order so many AMRAAM’s when they could order more meteors???
the german military works in mysterious ways
Best guess either A) they are a lot cheaper than Meteor (about half the price), and so just better to use for Training/most situations or B) they are giving them to Ukraine
Because if UK Ben Wallace is to be believed, US is shafting European F-35s by delaying and overcharging for Meteor integration on F-35s. So you’ll need AMRAAMs in the interim.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/844661456048881664/1132433697463865354/2021.png
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ah you just beat me to it, with better explanation, yeah the f35 aint compatible yet and so they propably are stocking up for them as well
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Thats super scummy, but not unexpected from the US or its defence sector
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Ah, America is always a bit salty about the Meteor being better than AMRAAM
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The funniest part about it is the Americans had a meteor equivalent in the works to replace the AIM-54, but killed it back in 1992 becausr of their good ol’
“nobody will ever catch up to our technological genius, and so why pay more for better?” Mentality…
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Haha
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Americans really are their own worst enemy
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Speaking of Meteor, someone should ought to create a Meteor missile thread. It seems there’s an upgraded Meteor now. Spiral 1.1?
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End of the Cold War be like.
No one was remotely close to the USA or even on the horizon to catch up in the early 90s.
I don’t think there is much need currently. We won’t see something like Meteor for years, even after the Typhoon is added. If it at all. From what I Know. It has no equal, especially from the Russians. So might never get added
Years of document collecting might be needed for such a classified missile though. Took about 2 years of efforts for me to gather enough information on the MICA missiles, which are decades old and still haven’t gotten to where I need it to be yet. You can imagine the amount of effort/time needed for Meteor.