@Morvran @Rileyy3437 or anyone else
Do any of you have the Haynes book on the RAF typhoons? I was considering buying it for reading it but it could also prove a good source for some things
F-15I can carry 360 CM, all of which are standard calibre. If BOL flares CM won’t get fixed, it will hamper Eurofighters survivability against AIM-9Ms and R-73s alike.
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I think gunjob amd flame are the 2 to ask.
They are the aircraft source huys most likely to have those
According to RID Italy chosed MK0 only for his initial T4 for speed up deliveries. Keep in mind that the acquisition is going to end in 2034 so Mk2 will be ready by then and a new radar for T3 will be needed. Also Italy didn’t exit from the Mk2 programme.
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ah so i remembered it roughly right
either way italy gonna end up the first main typhoon user state with an aeasa radar
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From which Trache/Block was it used?
HMSS?
introduced in 2009, afaik across all tranches
if you believe airpower.at then block 2b
i dont think this will actually matter. Pretty much everything at top tier gets helmet if they got it in their service. F15C/16C are nice example, they sat through most of their service without JHMCS and they still get it anyway.
Thats why i mention ASRAAM, ASRAAM ingame will have a similar range to current MICA (due to MICA being inaccurate in range) and will simultaneously be much faster.
I’d personally probably make that tradeoff.
My concern which may or may not be unfounded is that they will do something similar to stinger/igla and say they don’t believe that it truly can be a 50g missile with only 4 small fins and lifting body technology.
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I do feel ASRAAM is too strong now, if modelled accurately.
But Aim9M in a world of HMD is the weakest IR missile at top tier.
It would be nice to have a missile we could use when we are dogfighting (most of my kills in the Gripen at close range are with the gun)
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Gaijin could go the route of adding the ASRAAM P3i as a stop gap to actual ASRAAM. Has an AIM9 X motor instead of the better ASRAAM motor.
Isnt it thrust vectoring?
Btw, its smokeless isn’t it, ive looked up some launch pictures and there is no smoke, maybe a little.
I dont hate the idea of reducing the range in favour of a missile that can pull more G. Like a SRAAM with a little more range a lot more flare resistance
if MICAs are a no go, so are 9X, IRIS-T, Python 5 and ASRAAM, sry bud
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Yeah at least the French have Magic 2s which perform well in a dogfight
i have no issues with 9Ms/L-i’s
especially when you are slow (dogfight), the missile pulls nicely
a nerfed Magic 2
They can work but in slow close range dog fights they do not pull anywhere near as much as an R-73 or Magic 2
We have these wonderful HMD that just doesnt have a use excluding queuing the R Darter shots.
New J-11B and Rafale will likely edge the Typhoon in VWR due to superior missiles and similar flight models.
We als stuck with potentially 2-4 missiles that just are not any real use at the close of the game.
Thats by far wrong.
Aim 9m is one of the strongest IR missles.
And if anything the aim 9l(i) would get the crown as worst ir missles in your Definition, because on top of everything it has smoke
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