gps/ins, laser and MMW
its a brimstone guidance section afaik
also it has an engine
SAL, MMW, INS and GPS. So for game purposes it would be Laser+IOG+GPS like the Paveway IV.
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British Grom
Ohhh, this sound realy Interesting :)
Close to an GBU-39 SDB, but better :)
yeah but it has a turbojet engine… Grom has an SRM, SDB is unpowered
its a miniature cruise missile, not a glide bomb
Kinda, its the same warhead from Brimstone, so tandem HEAT with frag. So you still need a direct hit. But based how lucky I’ve been with Brimstone I don’t see that as an issue.
who’s gonna lase it for you tho
Still 10km laser cutoff
I wonder, since we see Gaijin adding more and more cruise missiles (yes, I know only added to the files currently), but could you by chance ask if the Devs have changed there Mind about those stuff and are now ready to Accept the Taurus as an Suggestion?
GPS to get to target SAL for terminal? If the SPAA is sitting still (as they often do) you won’t even need the SAL. But its best use will be orbiting at 30km and launching it HOBS style.
MMV for terminal >:)
gaijin says screwwwwwwwwwwwwwww you, no mmw >:[
Like a powered Laser SDB
The canards should deflect downwards when the plane is in the hangar, just like this video
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Shouldn’t it have an IR seeker too? Everything I found talks about a “multi-” or “tri-mode-seeker” consisting of mmW, IR and SAL.
Additionally it has a turbojet engine (Pratt & Whitney TJ-150) of which you can see the air intake on the side of the missile in picture which @Dontkev posted. So not a “GPS guided glide bomb” but a multi-seeker FnF cruise missile with a range in excess of >100 km and a comparably very small warhead for long range precision strikes at very small targets.
Closer to the SBD II
Data sheet doesn’t detail any IR capabilities. There is a TWZ article that does;
But I’ve never seen anything mentioned by MBDA about it having IR capabilities.
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The seeker looks pretty similar to Brimstone;
I think the IR stuff is just rumour or just plain wrong. Multimode clearly just means SAL/MMW just like Brimstone is multimode with SAL/MMW.
At least it wouldn’t surprise me as laser designators work with lasers in the near infrared frequency range (780 - 1400 nm). So developing a SAL sensor which can be “dual purposed” to act as an infrared sensor to some degree shouldn’t be too far off…