Yeah, he had a bug report that many german bombs were using the lower yield HE filler that they could run, and it got shot down, woupdve been a somewhat significant increase in TNT equivalence for multiple german bombs iirc
My hope is that both are good as they both are IRL.
Naturally as someone likes the Eurofighter i hope it fights better but I certainly would not like the Rafale to be some sort of heavier Gripen or Mirage thing.
I’m not sure there are many documents about Rafale but there are some good minimum figures to base it off of which are above a lot of things.
Yep
Trialen 105; Einsatz, Deutschland WK II: Bomben und Torpedos;
Zusammensetzung: 70 % TNT, 15 % Hexogen, 15 % Aluminiumpulver bzw. 74 % TNT, 14 % Naphthalin, 12 % Aluminiumpulver
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Then we’re very unlikely to see it.
Gaijin already massage figures for ‘balance’
that and they fear Stalin’s cold dead hand will reach out from the grave if they don’t buff Russian, equipment
On a more serious note, and not knowing the engagment parameters of the exercise, luftwaffe pilots have been claiming to out fight F-22’s which by default means it knife fights better than an F-35
So i’m not with you on this, i’d rather see an aircraft that is competitive to the current top tier aircraft choices than have another’s nations bled into the trees as the only alternative
To my knowledge that is the case.
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Yes all bombs from the SC50 to the SC1800 would get it’s TnT equivalent multiplied by 1.6 here is how probably would it look like:
This is the original post too
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Might be due to the fact the F-22 didnt have an HMD until very recently. Ill try to find the quote, but i have seen an italian pilot say that with missiles its basicly no-contest in the merge, but a gunfight is quite different
If I remember, the cockpit had no space for most hmd
iirc the planes hardware/software was too proprietary to integrate any of the HMD’s on the market or something, I think the US govt twisted LM’s leg once they realized that even though they killed the program 10+ years ago, they werent gonna let the F-22’s retire, which lead to the F-22 upgrade program
Brimstones will be assembled and maintained in Germany
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I wonder why theyre running AMRAAM on the wing pylons but not the semi recessed ones…
typically they carry meteor on the MELs and then AMRAAMs on the MFRL
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But can they carry Meteor on the “MFRL” pylons?
yeah ofc
it can do aim-9, asraam, meteor, amraam, iris-t
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Sure but they dont have any missiles on the semi-recessed at all, so unless they were doing test firing or something, it just seems odd, not really a big deal tho i guess
I look forward to this immensely, do you have similar docs on the Rafale?
who knows. could be anything really.
the MFRL will be mounted either way so might as well use it.
One day, maybe this jet can and will save Germany top tier :(
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If were gonna bring up Eurofighter trailers, theres only 1 that should really be brought up until WT actually adds the EF2000 imo:
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