I have an FOI in to try to get a list of the VWS callouts wherein they don’t give away any classified capabilities.
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Lemme guess, to the RAF?
The MOD/RAF yes.
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So we likely wont get an answer before march if they are as fast as the BW :(
Hit or miss on speed, depends on the request. Expected reply is early Feb’.
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I don’t think that’s true, I’m pretty sure part of EU agreements is mutual defense treaties.
Which year?
I’ll show myself out.
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the transonic callout is not in this report…
Internally my guy.
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aaahhhh
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Should Gaijin make Litening pods jettisonable like other stores? 😅
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It’s not Litening that was jettisoned, it was the pylon. The fact that Litening was on it was a mere coincidence. Or MoD got a report that laser deteriorates with distance, so they brought the laser closer to the target.
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I imagine the MoD’s press office is simply hoping nobody takes an interest in what might have been on the pylon and ask the awkward question w/r/t exactly how much a Litening pod costs to replace
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Its only shy 1,4 milion $. No one will notice…
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How is it that expensive?
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Military tax…
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Because of the Stringent requirements of the contract, exhaustive (and expensive) Quality Control & standards certification needs to be performed at nearly every step of production for all items and assemblies and only the best selected to for the next steps (also repeated small production numbers tend to really pump unit cost). To ensure it does not become an issue for the end user and as such basically everything costs 20X as much as it would acquiring the same item commercially.
Also because Cost tends not to really be that much of an issue when Governments want to to not be.
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Attaches targeting pod to the bomb its self
Should sellotape a cheap laser pen to the brimstone’s to get fire and forget until we get its full potential
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Someone give this man government contract.