@oppsijustkilledu@MiG_23M I’ve come across all sorts of bits and pieces from ASRAAM’s development over the years. I’ll do a proper reply when I have time.
Here’s a quick one line answer for now:
As I’m sure you know ASRAAM started as a UK / Germany / US project (with a few other countries at various points also). The nations all placed a high importance on high average velocity. The logic of the day could basically be summed up as “IR missiles have (or soon will have) advanced to a point where if two aircraft enter a dogfight both will probably end up dead to each other’s missiles. Therefore the best approach is to make sure your missile hits him before he is within range to fire his missile.”
That’s just going off the cross sectional area being 70% larger than the AIM-9.
As you can see, UK gov said “The Brimstone was one of three weapons upgrades fitted onto the Typhoon last month under ‘Project Centurion’”.
article is from 2019, so it will be at least T3.
And we will clearly see the 3rd tranche no earlier than the summer patch of 2025(and most likely it will appear in December 2025)
I just want to use Brimstone from a normal supersonic platform :(
Were the ITA/BRI Typhoons the only ones to use Pirate IRST?
Been looking through photos of German ones, and could only find 1 photo with the newest Typhoon from Germany having it.
If it doesn’t have Pirate IRST, would it have another form or none at all?
