The British or German but my bias says British
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So the worst version is Italian, why if you know and thank you?
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i bet some one more knowledgeable will explain soon but i think it is the Germans due to them still using it and have nothing newer to focus on so it would have the most upgrades but i could be wrong
ok thx bro
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The differences are small and variable. The standard UK versions have IRIST equipped, while germany keeps it open to build them in at any point. That being said we have variants with IRIST as well for testing.
Germany tested the Amak kit as well, which would even further improve their air performance but was only used on one tranch 2 versions.
British ones use ASRAAM and Shadow
Germany uses IRIS-T and Taurus.
Both use Meteor.
In short germany propably is superior in ultra short dogfight with the IRIS-T while, UK is better at middle ranges with ASRAAM
and stupid forum, i tried posting since 5min
it also cut off
goddamnit one minute
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While the British one with ASRAAM would be better at longer range
done it for you
middle ranges xD long ranges is meteor our beloved
Eventually the Italian will be the best. It has the joint best radar with the UK Typhoons, as well as the possibility to get Brimstone, Meteor and IRIS-T (which in-game I suspect will be better than ASRAAM), as well as Italy having the IRST.
Once you include TV and AMK kit its tricky and it depends who gets it, there’s an arguement for all the nations to get it due to Eurofighter being a multinational consortium. It mostly depends on if Germany gets the IRST or not and if yes how it is justified.
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Assuming all receive AMK due to it being an international consortium, Luftwaffe EFT’s would also be open to receive IRST even if they don’t mount it irl. This goes both ways.
Germany has purchased Brimstone 2s for their EFTs (there’s an image of IPA 7 aircraft testing them from 2019).
The only difference then would be the radar, but the superiority of Mk.2 mostly relies on its electronic warfare capabilites (that Germany didn’t focus on for Mk.1, but will for Mk.1 MLU, thus closing the “capability gap”). Of course the question at the end of the day is whether Gaijin even models EW, if they don’t there won’t be a single difference between Mk.1 and Mk.2 radars.
TVC was not mounted to any EFT to my knowledge. Only tested in ground setting.
I know, just not on service standard aircraft. I don’t mind Germany getting the IRST at all, just brings it up to the standard of the Italian one. As I’ve said before though I think if one nation gets AMK/TVC they all should.
That is in my opinion, the best way to do it. They all should be essentially the same airframe but with their own national weapons fit. In fact I only mention AMK/TVC because I can bet Germany will receive the IRST as I think is fair and fitting.
I know, my point is that the Italian and German ones are essentially C&P bar the radar differences.
ECRS MK.1 is an M-scan with an AESA Antennae, ECRS MK.2 is an entirely new radar. I won’t pretend to know the performance differences but on paper, ECRS MK.2 is better.
All that added together makes the Italian one, on paper the best.
This is true, its only ever been mounted to the EJ200’s but if these things end up having to fight F-22’s or SU-57’s, they’re gonna need everything they can get, including things like meteor on all 8 pylons (theoretical), AMK (theoretical), IRST (theoretical), TVC (theoretical).
if you ask me it has bigger reason to be added then yak 141 getting IRIST xD
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Absolutely agreed.
i bet when it comes they going to give us sidewinders for balance or something like that