The odd thing being that as far as I know those drill missiles are for ground handling training (i.e. no functioning seeker), hence I said that they stuck me as being for aerodynamic tests. The ones with a live seeker, but inert rocket / warhead seem to have different colour bands.
idk, but i can tell you that 51kg of TNT hitting your tank anywhere is going to lead to you not having a functional tank anymore.
155mm HE shell will mission kill a tank within like 10m, if not outright K-kill it, and they only have at most 15kg of TNT.
Hence why S-24’s are god tier nukes
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Maverick F4F
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PARS3LR Tiger UHT
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Both during the recent event grind (want that japanese plane + this missile).
But don’t waste your time. Both systems have been reported over and over gain. Western countries often get faulty stuff which works unreliable at best. Reports are probably all ditched.
Im bit frustrated over the garbage Germany got over the last year. Everything inferior, bugged, unplayable. Even the new Leopard PSO is hard to play with this dozer clipping into the ground in alot matchs. Just often happens on flat ground for no reason. You get stuck, cant move, cant be towed nothing helps beside ejecting and leaving the match. Its like they want non Eastern countries look like inepts.
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I think uniqueness should be maintained but that can be maintained in different ways, for instance the UK will obviously receive the ASRAAM (which i suspect will end up being different and largely worse) as opposed to the IRIS-T. Only the UK and Germany will receive brimstone but Italy and the UK to compensate will get an IRST module which Germany should imo lack because then it would have the every feature of the aircraft.
They’d balance eachother out but in different ways. When we start getting to Tranche 4 Typhoons Britain might get the Tranche 3A, so whilst some capabilities will be reduced, we will be the only nations with the ECRS MK2 as neither Germany or Italy have purchased the radar and there’s a very real possibility they may choose the MK.1 over the MK.2.
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So the Mav was before the buff.
PARS 3 is still having issues then, probably separate.
Cause I can tell you out of the 6 Mavs I launched from A-10 yesterday on the 3rd, 5 killed targets, and the 6th? Well the target was alive when I shot, and died by someone else before it reached.
Oh, nice when was that buff?
October 2nd.
“A bug that caused air-to-ground missiles and unguided rockets to lose pressure damage has been fixed.”
Does anyone know if the Eurofighter received dual-carry pylons for the Fox-2’s I could’ve sworn there was a picture of a Eurofighter with a dual mounted ASRAAM?
Still open, I’ve given it a nudge.
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does exist yes, but isnt in official use anywhere because it would affect the flight of the eurofighter for the worse and would get to heavy if you stack enough missles
Yep this was what I was looking for, thankyou. I’m not surprised that it isn’t used and realistically 8 missiles standard is no slouch.
Yeah I’ve seen that but for now the verifiable maximum load is 6 Meteors and i think 4 SRAAM’s maybe 6 with those dual rails. In the future I wouldn’t be surprised if it materialises though as a force multiplier for the F-35, Tempest and FCAS.
Particularly as the UK is the only country funding METEOR integration on the F-35 and the US have overcharged and delayed it until conveniently a year after the AIM-260 is set to enter service, so Ben Wallace at least wasn’t keen on pushing more funding.
Ty, much appreciated
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“uniqueness” would only hurt the performance of the individual aircraft. true uniqeness should be smth like the AMK on the 98+07
taurus is allegedly stronger and longer range with a more sophisticated warhead, targeting, navigation, fuse and generally a bigger size and ofc a turbofan instead of a turbojet
currently the Eurofighter is only cleared to carry 8 a2a missiles. either 4+4 ir/radar or 2+6 ir/radar. technically it is capable of carrying more missiles as the wiring and physical connection is there.
~28 Million Euro in just Meteors haha.
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~1bln in damages though :P
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Germany already placed an order down for 141 Mk.1 radars back in 2020 - 38 of them for Tranche 4, and the rest for Tranche 3 and 2 aircraft.
EFT ECRs are rumoured to get Mk.2 radars though.
Italy is a co-developer of the Mk.2 and they will likely choose that for their upgrade.
Probably, but they will lack Brimstone which feeds into my point about diversity, i think so long as we don’t get a model based on the German IPA variant which gets every feature, then the aircraft will be different but balanced.
Yep i saw that, but they differ from other Tranches and I believe diverge from the standard Eurofighter policy of any aircraft being able to employ the full Eurofighter weapons complement.
Taurus & Storm Shadow are both listed as having a max range of over 500 km.
The warheads also both use the same concept of a shape change fist stage followed by a penetrating high explosive second stage.