Yes. They had Aim-120C5s (used on both the Typhoon and Tornado F3 FSP) and I think German ones still have Aim-120C8s for them?
I dont think there was much of an overlap where Britain ran Aim-120Bs on the Typhoon and definetly not by the time of the FGR4
what do you mean by
Do you mean they switched to 120Cs before FGR.4 standard? and that Typhoon F.2 standard used the 120Bs?
We have Ds now for the F-35 could slap those on it
I mean, Typhoon F2 entered service in 2003.
Tornado F3s got Aim-120C5s sometime in the early 2000s (I think sometime between 2003 and 2006) and FGR4 entered service in 2008.
So assuming Aim-120C5s werent acquired for the Typhoon any earlier than the Tornado (And I genunely dont know) then it would make sense to give the Typhoon the best possible AMRAAM which means it likely got them sometime between 2003 and 2006 I think. So only 3 years max where Aim-120Bs might have been used.
But by the time of the FGR4. Aim-120C5s were probably the standard and Aim-120Bs were just old stock if they were used operationally at all.
Yeah I’d think it’s to compensate the slow moving aircraft to make it competitive.
I still think its going to be a total menace and unfair for everyone else… Again… LIke fighting F-15C and F-15Es without equal were
Yeah, kinda wish Typhoon would got it too so it would push the BR for another decompression, but, with these kind of treatment, there’s a very low chance of Air RB get another decompression, maybe up to Winter Update, and worse, still no fixes for Typhoon again.
Gaijin believe YouTube and reddit that Typhoon is great so it doesn’t need anymore help.
They should have just remodelled Captor to work like the Su-34 PESA Radar and the player base would have been happy.
Agree, is really that hard to make a fake radar? We have J-11B with fake radar from F-15C, Typhoon should’ve also got it too from Su-30SM at least.
Fair enough, guess we’ll only be sure when the dev is open, or maybe in the upcoming days.
My biggest gripe for Typhoon only its Supercruise capabilities and the radar, if it’s a 13.7 I understand, even for Mechanical PD Radar it’s bad compared to better Mechanical PD Radar like F-15C/E for example.
Su-30 is an AESA Radar but the Captor-M is closer in performance to an early ish PESA Radar in function than it is to the Blue Vixen it’s based on.
So it’s my Mandela Effect then, I thought the Su-30SM was mixed between ESA and Mechanical lol.
I do hate how it flops around at high altitude too, I don’t understand why turning high up makes the aircraft feel like it’s on water. You would expect thinner air for it to cut through.
Super cruise of a max 1.3 at 35kft is also nonsense
It is. The SU-30 uses a PESA radar on a mechanical swivel
Ah people refer to it as an AESA
And Gaijin doesn’t classify radar types
Would be nice if they did. But currently we have 2 AESAs in game, Rafale and Kfir C.10, and soon the F-2. PESA is found on SU-30SM and SU-34. Everything else is still mechanical. Not sure about the J-11B tbh
I take back what I said, it was just confirmed to be on F-15E/I as well
Gaijin know Typhoon only has 6 ARHM…
Well let’s for the hopium Typhoon would got it.