So you are suggesting giving a heli access to what i believe is the most modern sidewinder, being relevant to the eurofighter at all, heres an idea, if they ever add that stuff, everyone gets it, not just 1 nation
Got to be real as well Brimstones do not cut it you need to get too close to the SPAA and SAMS. They are a struggle.
We really need an improved brimstone with more thrust/range. If its you 1 v 1 vs a Pantsir or Flakrad/ITO you are at best trading at worst having all your slow missiles shot down and dying.
You’re fighting Pantsirs and vt1 slingers wrong then, i have died less to them than to strelas and ty-90’s, even ka’s are more dangerous sometimes because of the 30mm, you honestly shouldn’t try to long range joust them with brimstones anyway, takes way too much time.
Locate the spaa, leave your targeting box on it, use terrain to get within 5 km, pop up, lock, launch and maneuver (in max 10 secs the spaa is dead), the pantsirs missile doesn’t maneuver well at all until like 6+ km, the vt1 is a bit better but still can’t kill you within 4 km if you’re fast enough.
Meanwhile the 2s38/hstvl/otomatic on the way to smite you despite maneuvers (skill issue i know)
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I mean if the enemy spaas (otomatic together with a pantsir or vt1 slinger) have enough brain to work together (pantsirs almost never remember they have guns) for once they honestly deserve to kill you, i know people find the cas of the Eurofighter lacking, i would take 6 FNF brimstone 1’s in a heartbeat too but i think people wanting brimstone 2 would permanently close the door to getting fnf brimstones for a looooooong time.
ground launched IRIS-T and ASRAAM could also come
and there is a big difference between heli and fixed wing launched AAM’s
i think itll be ground/heli 5th gen IR, then on weaker airframes like the tornado, then finally on top end fighters like the typhoon
yeah still doubt that will happen,
Didnt happen with fox3 either
happened with R-73 though
ah yeah russians self pity party to force things trough where they implemented it for how long exclusive to a su25? while aim 9m didnt get tested anywhere and 9m had to directly get added because of community anger?
wasnt it less then an updates time in between them since it was an event vehicle?
fair enough, but i still think itll happen with 5th gen IR aam, i doubt theyll just jump to top end fighters
and it did happen with fox 3 lol, look at F-14
Either that, or the devs just need to give up with CAPTOR-M and just go to CAPTOR-E very soon. But AIm-9M is a rather annoying “nerf”
I think it’s possible that they’ll add iris-t (analog) to the tornado first as a test because it wouldn’t be as impactful as asraam/mica ir because you won’t get long range shots and it would at max be 2 kills if used right.
Also im not sure if gaijin will even give them that much range considering how bad tvc missiles are at range.
And who knows maybe all EF will share missiles so we can mix irist and asraams someday.
The only big problem with the eurofighter is the need to have it’s radar fixed, there is no point to search for aesa radar from the other typhoon sold.
and if it cannot be fixed and everyone else is running AESA anyway, then all 3 nations should get the CAPTOR-Es that are being fitted into the Typhoons currently.
Mk1 for Germany and Mk2 for UK and Italy
Wait you are suggesting to add tranche 4 ?
British Eurofighters had AESA fitted before Italian and German ones, AESA could be integrated as soon as Tranche 2, you don’t need to build a new plane to replace the radar, only Tranche 1 couldn’t fit it because of physical constraints.
So all British/German/Italian T2+ Eurofighters will get AESA radars, not only T4.
Rafale has gotten HMD and 8x MICA from a much later variant. Heck, should really have come with PESA not AESA on this first variant. I dont think it would be unreasonable to add CAPTOR-E if the CAPTOR-M cannot be salvaged.
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How so ? Which tranche, as far as i get it only tranche 4 will bring aesa for the eurofighter, only some countries decided to have aesa in their plane despite being like tranche 3 ?
Most people play in air rb where the aesa radar of the rafale bring nothing, a good radar like the one of the mirage 2k5f would be enough by far, it will for sure be useful for the eurofighter as it has 80km range on it’s amram.
And well you know well about the hmd, you can’t go full historical, it would change a lot of things in this game and the missiles numbers are historical, there was no update needed to carry them.
I could find these 2 sources saying that the AESA radar is to be retrofitted into T2 and T3 German Typhoons 1 and 2 and also here on the radar maker site it says a large scale retrofit will take place for T2 and T3 probably for both Germany and Spain.
Also the UK has no EF on order so of course they’ll retrofit them, only Italy has no news of retrofitting but they are buying new EF so i think those will have AESA.