Some of it I understand, some of it I look and think… what is the thought process there. No Jag Gr3A: sure it had asraam it would have 2 guaranteed kills. But no Gnat or Type 545 or Hawk, I look over and go, ‘do the soviets really need another squished objekt tank when the UK doesn’t have a viable rank 6 fighter’. No TSR, sure they don;t want to encourage supersonic bombers.
Historically its understandable that we are where we are for the new generation of top tier, we do not export vehicles like France, US and USSR, we do not get everything domestic with modification like Israel or Sweden. And we have stuck with challenger much past its relevancy and the Tornado ADV was meant to be a short term fix but ended up spanning 3 decades.
But the gaps that can be filled are killing me. Tracked Rapier, Warrior ADATS simply so its a British tree, any warrior IFV variant not in-game, Gnat/Hawk/Superswift for rank 6.
When it comes to the Prototypes, I’d say its best to treat them all as essentially the same aircraft.
When it comes to production models, then I think its worth thinking about, but for the most part, what one can carry, they all could. Brimstones for example would in theory be only RAF Typhoons, but I think they should still go to the Italian and German ones.
Prehaps, but with no BL775s, that would leave German and British Typhoons with nothing at all and I’d prefer to have at least something in A2G. Even if that was just a handful of unguided weapons.
yeah the italian one will be the only with cluster bombs. at the same time the british one (alarm) will be the only with an harm capability. We will se how the devs will make theyr choice on those obscure weapons on the EFA.
In Storm Shadows case. There are other options, Like German and I think Italian ones could run Taurus cruise missiles instead. But they’d perform the same role
depend wich weapon (for eaxmple marte was only tested on an italian efa, altought a british one was showcased with it once). as for other more normal weapons like storm shadow, taurus, brimstone etc they have been tested and showcased with all nations that have EFA as far as I remeber.
Though it is splitting hairs before we are even there. Assuming we ever actually get the Typhoon, not too mention a prototype aircraft, I think that prototype should be nearly identical too all 3. With all 3 nations limited, it would be very unfair if one Typhoon was significantly better than the others just because one tested something that the others didnt.
Thats the key thing to remember. It was a collabrative project. Each nation contributed something and tested something different. So it wasnt the “Italian one” that tested the bombs in the early stages. It was an EF Typhoon.
When we enter production models. Then we should start worrying about making them a little more unique. Like with loadout options… But even then, a certain basic loadout options, probably could do with being maintained among all.
