They’ve been here since day 1
moved the post and updated the formating
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i had that but the system didnt immediately give me the new rank. still dont support this because its only up to 30 days and posts like these literally NEED the permission to edit after a long while to add additional information
but thats offtopic
It’s a WIP, there was a change today I think to increase that limit to indefinite.
Might be worth linking to the british one as well, as they will be very similar
Great, I’ll bring the data from old forum.
RAFAEL, Diehl Defence, and HENSOLDT announce Teaming Agreement for SPICE 250 ER | Diehl Group
Diehl, RAFAEL and Hensoldt are apparently working together on a SPICE 250 ER for SEAD/DEAD, among other things. It’s a SPICE 250 with a turbojet engine giving it some 150km of range. RAFAEL announced this bomb-missile 2 years ago. However, Diehl has had agreements with RAFAEL over this thing for some time so they’d be license producing these in Germany
here is a spice 250(not ER) being advertised for the Eurofighter at ILA Berlin 2018
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.analyticsinsight.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F06%2FRafael_SPICE250-1024x768.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=05b13179c47a77f9660b26ffbf16dc0a7e4237d69efae945fabea82941a0b2e4&ipo=images
and here’s a spice 250 er, note the air intake on the bottom
due to its small size and it being quad “packed”, the eurofighter could carry a total of 24 of these, although 16 are more realistic(fuel tanks)
These are small bombs(250lbs total weight) but they’re IR, INS and GPS guided with 2 way datalink for man-in-the-loop capability
kind of makes them a direct competitor to MBDA’s SPEAR 3 missile which is smaller but less range and less weight and radar guidance instead of IR.
Will be interesting to see whether or not the Lw will FINALLY chose a new standoff weapon and if its going to be this.
I know about EF didnt use HARM, so this could be alternative for HARM . . .
Because Lw Tornados will be retired in a day not far away.
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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