"The Pirate will provide a passive IRST capability to the Typhoon and will permit it to detect and track air and surface targets and will also provide FLIR imagery for low level flight and navigation during all-weather, day or night operations. The Pirate’s hardware is housed in a compact, single line-replaceable unit that contains the optical system and signal processing assemblies. This-state-of-the-art system gives Eurofighter IRST capabilities above that of most fighter aircraft in service today. It complements the aircraft’s active sensors and datalink systems and significantly enhances vital battlespace situational awareness for the Typhoon crew and its missions. "
Oh i know, but I said DIRCM in this thread, because a guy in the German Eurofighter thread, told me ASRAAM was worse because the IRIS-T has DIRCM and ASRAAM doesn’t, but now I look at what he said, DIRCM is a countermeasure, not a seeker system so that makes no sense.
If Germany gets AMK, they will have to lose something like the IRST, or the multirole armament, or perhaps be limited to ECRS MK.1.
Some sort of concession as the Eurofighter is a multinational effort, just because they chose to use AMK on German Eurofighter doesn’t mean only Germany should get it as no partner nation has ordered it.
I vaguely remember that they also first trialed Brimstone on German aircraft (but someone may correct me) it just seems like they seem to get the most usage.
Its probably a case that Germany has that tool in its pocket, should it ever need it. But they dont plan to ever need it unless Russia does something very stupid.
Whilst the RAF will get involved in things like Op Shader
to be fair UK has the better tornados with brimstones and PGMs, while of course this isnt comparable to the eurofighter it will be hard to manage because everyone will want its complete capability, at least UK still only seems to be the only ones with the double rail guided bombs
Its because AMK is made by Airbus but the consortium funds the whole thing.
But as for Brimstone i’ve got no idea why it was trialed on the German Eurofighters.
RAF has its niche but they need to quit with the inter-service politics to get more out of the bag, we haven’t got a US sized budget for them to be fighting over.
I think Ukraine has been a wake up call. Brimstones are getting tested on the Apache, We’ve seen land based launches used in Ukraine, So I reckon we’ll see a new ATGM launcher or something come into service eventually and we’ve also seen them develop a mobile air defence system that uses ASRAAM.
I’d like P3I as well as the stanadard ASRAAM, even if it had a worse seeker than the IRIS-T the flexibility might still come in handy, also the UK could do something like take 2 ASRAAM, 2 P3I and 8 Meteor, which would be utterly ridiculous.
P3i never existed. And we have ASRAAM csp that should be on par with other missiles. I have no data but it is a modern upgrade
Also why is this pic so blurry, it wasnt like that before
Ukraine yes, but the stupid MoD went with the US JAGM, a worse missile, for 90 million extra, although the Apache did test it so i’d argue its worth it on the British Apache’s. Rumour has it Boeing refuses to integrate JAGM but I haven’t seen proof of it.
They’ve already proposed Boxer with Brimstone I think they’re even developing it.
