could i see the proof for the BL775?
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Italian Eurofighter
any proof of it ever mounted or showcased with a british one? Since the devs require at least the weapon showcased with the aircraft
thats the tough part, good luck differentiating between eurofighter weapons when the only difference is a software update at best
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.
I guess then every efa will have the same lodout. I probably won’t complain, they will be more balanced
Yeah but at least brimnstone were seen with all those nations EFA at least one time. Some weapons like BL775 weren’t (like Alarm for example)
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.
especially because new weapons are not tested on one nation’s jets only. see Storm Shadow for example
Assuming we ever get ARMs.
Though I’d not consider them true A2G weapons like Brimstone, Cluster bombs or any other form of bomb.
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
well but following your reasoning it should be added to all if it will ever come
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.
yeah but they were still put on other nation’s aircraft.
and i think that gaijin won’t add taurus or scalp unfortunately…
and prehaps it should.
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.
I could agree with this even if I would still prefer some difference between the prototypes.
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Yeah… some uniquness would be nice. Short of the IRST though on the RAF Typhoons, everything else is debatable. Its going to be hard to make them unique.
But I fear that in searching for uniqueness, you end up nerfing 1 or 2 of the Typhoons excessively. Like in the case of the Cluster bombs, without those, could either the German or British Typhoons get anything else?
I dont think so and that would be quite a major nerf to go from something relatively weak, to nothing at all.
Likewise, not all had a cannon, not all had CMs, not all had radar. Where do you draw the lines. The only way, we are going to get a usable prototype is taking parts from all of them I reckon. Or using a later variant that draws upon parts from all.
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It’s a possibility