Oh ok that was definitely the right decision then, thanks for the answer!
This would defined be the best of both worlds
So smokeless motors are getting removed from sweden aswell?
Why would they remove it when the German EFT is keeping a smokeless missile?
At best you could ask to rename RB-74(M) to AiM-9M
Kinda funny you could add CM and missiles to the Y**141, based on what it could have/would have used but when shown a “Proposal”(mockups from the manufacturer showing it CAN/WOULD’VE used it) for the 2x AMRAAM mounts, its denied… due to… being a proposal…?
Yak-141 was a prototype that never reached production. So it has only the limited weapons it was proposed with (4 missiles).
Eurofighter is not just a prototype and reached production, so there is no need to rely on proposed weaponry, as its production weaponry already exceeds that of many other aircraft.
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There’s a slight difference between a plane that never was anything more than an unfinished prototype and an in-service plane that is receiving continuous upgrades. It’s annoying and I don’t like it either, but I understand where they’re coming from.
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Will we have to research the AIM9Ms again even tho we already researched the AIM9L/I-1 mod?
Fair.
Just hope managers can see how the vast majority of players view actions taken.
I would disagree here as the devs have denied adding the “production weaponry already exceeds that of many other aircraft” i.e. IRIS-T / Meteor. (I am not advocating them to be in the game now)
The current missiles are no better than any of the other missiles this plane can face, so that point seems fairly moot. To go off that again, it carries a max of two (2) less AMRAAMS (AIM-120b) than the comparable plane in another tree.
So the rafale is going to get 8x ARH, and the typhoon is stuck with 6
Rafale F3.R with F4.1s features.
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Honestly. Im not bothered by the AAM loadout. Im more annoyed by the state of the radar and the fact its going to be modeled as Blue Vixen as the information needed to get it to the performance of CAPTOR-M is classified.
At this point. Im just thinking we need CAPTOR-E added to the Typhoons
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Considering the french got a free Rafale F4.1, probably.
It was stupid of gaijin to start with later models in the first place, but now they just said screw it and gave the french their latest model instead.
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Yeah, its certainly an upgrade that needs to be seriously considered
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What information are we missing? Scan rate was the big one previously but after doing a lot of digging I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion that IRL the scan rate was 70°/s.
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Yeah, the radar sucks hard
I was playing the F16C rn, and the radar is so much better, specially in tws, no invisible targets, precise targets and locking, idk why the Typhoon radar is so bad
That I thought was the big one, in that case then its not data but getting the Pirority scan mode and ground modes modeled.
But really wierd 70° / sec is enough for the interleaved mode and high resolution SAR
But there is still something bugged with it. Will get clips later. It feels really underpowered compared to the FA2
Why don’t they fix the AMRAAM’s then, everyone knows they are reduced smoke same as AIM-9M but they (and the AIM-54C) retain high smoke motor plumes in-game. Are there any open reports, are the devs just unaware?
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If so get a bug report submitted. The devs probably won’t do anything unless there’s a report in for it.
I still wanna compare the volumetric scan rates between top radars. It might be an issue that the scanned rate is fine but the scanned volume isnt great (for example too many bars or not enough total volume) and combined together makes the radar feel slow/bad.
Off the top of my head, the Rafale and Su-34 both scan CONSIDERABLY more sky in less time as an example, while other radar like the APG-70 seem to scan less sky but faster, which means they “feel” great IF you have them pointed in the right spot, but pointing them in the right spot is harder (not an issue in air RB, but is one in air SB)
Yep, planning on it, but was going to give a few days to see what work is done to fix it. Things like the massive ghosting issue I think has already been reported though
Though arent things like the radar power massively lower than that of even the Blue Vixen or something?
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