ALARM was planned, and can be seen fitted to DA2 in a few photos, but got retired from the RAF before it could see service on Eurofighter.
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Skyflash/Aspide should be the give away this is not very reliable. ECR-90 doesn’t have the ability to illuminate for those missiles.
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I’ve never seen any indication the inner wing pylons can carry missiles, mainly due to space.
Sorry should have indicated the fact it can also do 6 + 2, I don’t think the dual pylon can be used for amraam.
This document indicates it can carry missiles (in this case ARM’s). Idk why thered be a space constrain on the inner wing pylon when we know it carries LGB’s there as well…
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i didnt say it was not possible
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Missiles extend further backwards… and landing gear need to umm, operate.
look again, they weapon stations mount weapons far forward on them (compare the AMRAAM in this pic to the IRIS-T and the AMRAAM’s furthest point back reaches about 1/3rd from the end of the fins on the IRIS-T):
Now compare it to the placement of bombs and you’ll notice its about the same position:
There shouldn’t be any interference with the landing gears. Imo those rails are far enough forward not to interfere with landing gears.
Btw found an EF with Aim9 on inner wing pylon (not)
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Arent those paveways?
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ya
mh might be
Assuming any of these claims of which pylon can have what are correct… Will gaijin even allow it? So far the 2000-5F Mirage is the only one with 4x magic 2 for example. The MiG-29 series is being withheld the R-73 and yet also given R-27ER. I guess any discussion on load outs is more or less not relevant unless it is supported by images and documentation and even then… Best to wait and see and if there is more to add it can be put forth in a suggestion.
Y’all will need to gather all the necessary sources and pre-ready a suggestion in that case.
Cool image. That’s the first time I’ve seen ALARM on an in flight Eurofighter.
Any clue what the chunky looking thing on the left of the intake is? Doesnt quite look like a TGP.
Has nothing to do with this, it is balancing.
Better example is the su 27 and how gajin restricts the amount of r 73 it takes.
Same for this gajin csn always restrict more pylons to just the asraam equivalent it gets.
Not all need to be filled with meteors
The Su-27s in-game have their full IRL armament options ?
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spacing is fine for missiles
look at the space behind the paveway
and then look at like a lau-127
or with missiles
remember that the outer pylon is smaller than the inner pylon (14 inch vs 30 inch, 611 vs 873mm long)
Here’s a growler lau-127
space shouldnt be a problem for the inner pylon with missiles
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TGP, but round looks kinda like an ATFLIR but tbh i think thats a render lmao
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Interesting. I can only assume it is a targeting pod. I remember a brochure said you could mount a targeting pod in place of an AMRAAM, but I had never seen it done until now because everyone just sticks it on the centre line.