I think that Typhoons will go after ICE because it is “west” tech.
Does a Thrust Vectoring Eurofighter exist irl?
Also how many flares/charge can the Eurofighter carry?
They developed it irl but only as a demonstrator, it never implemented on any EFT I’m pretty sure, also it has 352 countermeasures (176 chaff & 176 flares) .
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The engine was fitted with a TVC Nozzle but never installed in an aircraft.
It has up to 352 Countermeasures split between 320 on BOL dispensers and 32 internal charges.
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Also are the flaperons just for roll control, or also pitch?
someone should push gaijin to fix bols effectiveness with proper sources because if it comes with bols as main source of CMS… GG
They’re good enough when you have 320 with the current IR’s but soon won’t be. Personally, I think yes it needs fixing but its not the end of the world, though if the engine is quite hot it could be…
Definitely needs fixing if PY4 is indeed coming though.
Iam more worried about chaff, i dunno if its me only but chaff from bols seems to be absolute trash.
Pitch is done primarily through the canards and elevons, roll is primarily done with just the elevons
You mean like how China has ROC F-16’s followed by PLAAF J-10’s followed once again by ROC Mirage 2000’s?
pitch is done through the flaperons as well.
iirc the canards initiate the pitch maneuver and the flaperons trim it out
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Can you provide a video to demonstrate? I can only imagine the Canards pitch upwards to increase instant turn rate rather than to always initiate a pitching moment. They should normally be creating negative lift to counter the static instability. This is the downside of unstable canard deltas, as opposed to a design like the F-16’s where the elevons add to the overall positive lift.
You are correct, I completely forgot about the flaperons existing for a moment. I believe the outer ones are also thought to be the most important ones. I believe your breakdown of foreplanes initiating followed by flaperons trimming is also correct.
@MiG_23M this very ‘retro’ video with cringe music has some examples of downward pitch with the camera centred on the canards
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So it functions the same as the Gripen, the canards deflect downwards slightly at very low airspeed and they function more as trim at this stage of flight. I imagine at high subsonic or supersonic speeds where it becomes more statically stable the canards could also aid in overall positive lift when this crosses over.
The canards do have to be angled down pretty much all the time but because of the massive leverage that they have by being far coupled (as opposed to what the rafale, gripen and j-10 have) it requires less deflection meaning less drag and less lift lost.
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My very basic understanding was that they are almost always angled down as you said and then to turn the almost ‘de-couple’ and let the aircrafts natural upward lift (due to being unstable) take effect before ‘catching’ the aircraft preventing it from pitching too hard.
My understanding was also that this allowed the jet to be ‘more unstable’ due to the sheer moment being generated by the long-arm canard.
(But I don’t know if this is all true it got dumbed down a lot by the guy explaining it to me)
Flares work but Chaff is useless
Germany has to get the Tranche 1 Block 5 over the Tranche 1 Block 2, using the logic that Britain’s Eurofighter variants have ground ordinance.
If not, that would just be a stab for German players finally looking for a top tier CAS plane.
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AFAIK F.2 means Fightier Mark 2 limited to A2A. And anyways, ger has the best tanks to GRB.
From what I can tell Britain only had access to CAS on the Typhoon from T1 Blk 5 onwards, just like every other nation basically.