we are naming their origins as seperate countries for rightness sake
İf thats the case then its fair.
but no British planes will have IRIS-T
True but nobody Said anything about British plane in that case.
the F-35 sale itself included over 100 AIM-120C-8s already
i cant imagine the BAAINBw being happy about any of this as it introduces another 2 missile types(C-8 and actually AIM-9X as well)
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Inb4 one 9X “mysteriously” appears at a Diehl facility lol.
Jokes aside, it’s a double edged sword. If BAAINBw was to want to integrate IRIS-T on the F-35s, they’d have to share all of its secrets with the US (big nuh uh).
I dont expect sharing the details to be that big of a deal; the US will be the culprit again. And the Bundestag for not giving enough funding…
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I’m of the opinion that MBDA could integrate IRIS-T and Meteor without the source code, but aren’t going to push it because it keeps locksneed happy and apparently they’re one of the only ones allowed to fix the F-35. This is a real US-MIC moment, locksneed kept basically all of the intellectual property and can dictate what other countries do with the plane to a certain degree
So the eurofighter will most likely be stuck with aim120b and aim9m? Or which missiles does it use in service atm?
Meteor as bvr and iris-t/asraam as short range missles. Seems like smin once again denied eurofighters so we might actualy see the short range missles on release
Does it actually use meteor irl? We got the first mig 29 still using r60
I’m defenetly not, I’m just an overly curious forum user. But they may know something.
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yeah germany got meteors
Which year did they get meteors?
U are aware that the Meteor wasnt purely developed by the UK right? UK owns like 40% and germany 16%.
To be specific germany got 150 meteors ordered in 2013 delivered between 2016 and 2018.
Then again ordered another 100 in 2019
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Whats intresting is that the Software Update to use Meteor on EF also contained the ability to use Storm Shadow
Nach Luftwaffen-Angaben wurden die Eurofighter mit der P2Eb-Software (“Verbesserungspaket 2”) aufgerüstet, die die Integration der Meteor- und Storm Shadow-Waffen ermöglichen.
Meh, it will get whatever 120C is in the game by that point for balance purposes. Same as with UK’s 39C using SkyFlashes & 9Ms (South Africa had neither, and IRIS-T would be too overpowered).
Huh so id assume we’ll get a eurof without these missiles first and then a second variant with meteor and iris t.
Will the german vesrion have irst?
depends on gajin, they arent standard on our eurofighters but we do have them for testing etc
and keep it open to install them at any point
That being said, it could be balanced with germany being the only nation to receive the AMK-Kit for the eurofighters
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What is the amk kit?