only the first 3 of these are actually possible irl(minus the TPOD on the MEL, it’d be on the centre pylon),
the other ones are using weapons that are not integrated… yet
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Doubt that Anti Ship will ever go anywhere honnestly. Harpoon integration has been delayed like 4 times already.
Air to Ground Rocket Launcher… Could be Brimstone. That was tested already. Every by germany
The only loadout on that pic i posted that is not yet there quiet yet is the SEAD version.
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anti ship has allegedly been initiated by Italy with Marte ER instead of Harpoon. Brimstone is already operational on Eurofighter with i think it was P2E or something like that. whether or not germany has it remains a mystery.
that was a german prototype test demonstrator wasnt it, since it already had IRST and the brimstones
The brits wanted to do this…
Never went anywhere iirc…
Yep. One of our system test airframes
I brought up harpoon cuz that what we chose as our ASM of choice
of course it did, it still is possible, they share the same installation points
Really? Cuz ALARM is no longer in service. They retired it shortly before putting it on the EF2000 iirc…
did the Lw ever own harpoons? i know older ships of the marine use them, newer ones use RBS15Mk3 and there is apparently interest in the NSM.
also technically, technically, the Lw does not “own” those 98+XX aircraft.
ah no i just meaned generaly that the ALARM slots can be used with BVR missles
Nope that harpoon brainfart came up with the Tornado Replacement debate a few years back, with the US promissing full support with the integration…
As we can see… Nothing happend.
Ah, i see
True… We still pay for them completly tho…
Or spendings are a mess… No wonder nothing gets done 🥲
lets hope they figure out how to do stuff for the ECR so its not just a normal eurofighter with a jammer pod…
but back to the brimstone, these 3 here look like live missiles with inert warheads to me, the same that was used on british eurofighters for testing
i’d assume that its the Brimstone 1 without the dual mode seeker but who knows, maybe that non-seethrough radome at the front is seethrough for whatever wavelength their laser designators are.
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ALARM got killed off due to the MODs constant budget cuts. A pair of them were strapped to DA2 (ZH588) though:
I think they are inert missiles. The picture you posted is of a drill (completely inert) missile going off the label.
As far as I can work out:
- Blue ring on seeker: Drill missile (completely inert)
- Black ring on seeker, blue ring on body: Acquisition training missile.
- Black ring on seeker, pink ring on body, yellow ring on motor: Telemetry missile (live without warhead)
- Black ring on seeker, yellow ring on body, yellow ring on motor: Live missile.
Yeah Brimstone 1. Dual Mode Brimstone and Brimstone 2 look like this:
i wonder if the colour of the missile body has anything to do with it. this one is white, others are grey. Black ones are for display only…
the black/blue ring for the live seeker is kinda weird to me because that looks like an advertisement at some expo like ILA Berlin with “Dual mode brimstone” written on it and “IRIS-T” on the iris-t. thats really a show-off kinda thing