I was under the impression the Hawk had rather… modest performance characteristics, perhaps I was mistaken.
22deg/s instant and sustains at 14deg/s its good not amazing. Really only good below 5000/ft
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Thanks, pretty modest then but workable for sure and they come with nice kit.
You might not know off of the top of your head but how does that compare to other similar aircraft.
(Gina, Gnat, Sabre, Alphajet etc?).
Bit better than an F.3 (if the F.3 was performing correctly). But I don’t have charts to hand for those examples. The Hawk suffers from the engine being pretty poor. Thats why instant is pretty respectable but sustained starts dropping off hard as you leave SL.
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Slap an after burner on the engine
Chuck an EJ-200 in there. I want supersonic Hawk for the UK’s next Trainer-Light Attacker.
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Hurray, now we cope max:
Next update they will add a hawk with ASRAAM, Active Skyflash and a EJ200
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Premium at 13.7 then 15.0
So here’s an interesting capability I wasn’t aware of before. The Litening III targeting pod on the Eurofighter is capable of simultaneously guiding two different Laser Guided Bombs to two different tracked targets:
This is also mentioned in the Litening III datasheet:
Thanks to @DirectSupport for pointing this out.
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huh, so it’s essentially multiplexing lasing the target. neat.
I wonder what the limits are, if its only within a certain region, or within the entire gimbal limit of the TGP
I’d imagine there’s a limit to the angular difference between the targets, and probably a limit on the relative velocity of the targets to each other too.
i imagine it requires IOG bombs and then switches between like TWS.
I’d imagine there are no limits. Its hard to find videos of the Litening III pod, but here’s a counterpart from the Rafale’s Talios pod:
You can see it track as many targets popping into view.
Timestamp: 1:35
thats just tracking, not lasing. the apache does the same thing
Fair enough, is there a video of the Apache doing the same thing? And why isn’t it modeleed?
AH 64 Red Light Vehicle Engagement (youtube.com) single vehicle track, cant find a specific video for multi track but its kinda the same
ECRS Mk.2 has just flown for the first time:
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When can we expect this to be slapped on the rest of them
Did any other country expressed interest in it? I forgot.
If so, then probably at the same time or after UK EF get it installed on large scale.