And if there was any alternative, I’d advocate for that, but we don’t even get larger GPS glide bombs nor do we get any FnF AGM.
Spear3 would be better. But limited to GPS only, would give the Typhoon at least something over literally everyone else at the moment
i mean they could give it SAL as well, right?
Yeah, they could, but they don’t even want to add SAL-only brimstone 2s, let alone GPS+SAL Spear 3s.
Spear3 with GPS only would be an amazing bare minimum
Would have to come with GBU-53 as that’s it’s counterpart
Why?
Why is the typhoon banned from having anything unique?
did any gbu-39 counterpart get released with it?
you dont always need an exact counterpart
Since the german EFT got access to the brimstone 1, there is a precedence to also give the others HOSBO when or more like if it comes to the game.
They didn’t even give the FGR4 the same laser+Gps GBUs that Italy and Germany get and we just have laser only 1000lbers. We don’t even get our own ePaveway II
the thing is brimstone 1 never got integrated on any EF afaik, only Brimstone 2 and 3 got integrated
HOSBO is only optical tracking, so while a fnf missle quite limited
better then nothing that being said
Or at least the earliest known test fire was 2017, 2 years after brimstone 2s entered service
Would be weird to test brimstone 1s,.especially as brimstone 2s upgrades suit the typhoon well
I’d kill for any form of stand off weapon
Those pylons were also added before the engines were upgraded making it a mongrel between an SM1 and 2. Ok so is it called the Su-27SM3, or the Su-27SM late model?
Is the Su-30SM able to cary those pylons?
Why does the Chinese J-11B not get the same pylons if they are universal?
It does waste time, it wastes everyones time when other nations are favoured their vehicles can carry more missiles when they should. When certain nations receieve weapon systems that dont even exist in the form they are protrayed while other nations have to fill out reports and do hours of research to have a weapon system kind of function like it should.
Bc that’s it’s closest counterpart & contemporary (besides SPICE 250 ER)
And SPEAR 3 would still be unique to typhoon
Yeah, there were some Chinese glide bombs and UMPK, also Grom 2
Isn’t an exact counterpart too, SPEAR 3 trades it’s better range and speed for less guidance modes and actual numbers than GBU-53
Then where is our GBU-39 or AGM-65 equivalent?
Heck, the FGR4 still doesn’t have a 1000lb GPS+laser JDAM equivalent yet
I am talking about weapons themselves not necessarily the aircraft
Generally they add equivalents with a couple exceptions
The gbu-39 is a weird one, i haven’t seen anyone get a kill with it in GRB, but in ASB it wins games and grinds very efficiently.
It’s also so rare to even see American cas, for every 1 F-15E in GRB there’s 30 Su-34/30/27.
You can get a lot of kills against America in ASB (EF Clears any American jet) but still lose because they can just win objectives/bomb everything with the amount of gbu-39
SM2 is a testbed
which also tested the IRBIS-E and alot of other stuff that was used for the SU-35
so no
it was never even close to being the sm2
J-11b carries the Pl-12 not the r-77 they are two completly different missiels
iirc the J-11BG had dual rails for the Pl-12
or are you trying to tell me that the launch rail for the pheonix can carry amraams
the fab-3000UMPK got added later iirc
not sure if it was storm warning
j-11bg doesnt got dual launch rails for pl-12s, they got dual launch rails for rockets though, howecer, this is really getting off topic