It’s also not conventionally known for its intakes.
Then what are the strakes on top then?
not an IRIS-T
They’re not strakes, they’re full canards which was why I asked. Is that some pre-production METEOR you’ve found??
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Nah, it doesn’t look anywhere close
The nose looks like a regular Meteor
And the little black rectangles at the front are the same
It’s a meteor
Found this image to support that it did indeed have front fins at a time tho
Fins might have been removed for better fitting to EF recesses because the fins seem to be at a different location than on an Aim-120
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Well ZK315 is actually a Tranche 2 so has a GPS antenna behind the cockpit
So if this ticket gets fixed, I will probably be porting this to the AESA jets.
As it stands, I’m pretty sure all previous FGR.4 camos can be ported simply by changing the .blk file name to ef_2000_typhoon_aesa.blk and the “from:t=” paths in the file from typhoon_fgr4_c/typhoon_fgr4_n to typhoon_aesa_c/typhoon_aesa_n since there’s not really any external difference in the models that I can see. So I don’t know if it’s worth actually publishing camos for the AESA one, instead of just adding instructions in the description for how to edit the .blk to get them to work.
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Forwarded, would be nice to have some physical details to set them apart, I also logged one for the half missing flash on the tail.
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Hey pilots. So with the AESA or (Late),or whatever it ends up being, us German pilots get one with the PIRATE IRST on it. So how good is that in the ARB? I used to use IRST on the Mig23 and even sometimes on the Mig29 to do long range shenanigans with the R27ET’s but seeing as how I only have AIM9Ms I could just as easily queue them up with the HMD as normal.
Is there any actual benefit to it? Thanks
You know what… if they made this bigger i could get used to it.
That should be a super early prototype or mock-up Meteor.
This is a picture shows the Eurofighter Development Aircraft DA7, that was retired in 2007. I’m pretty sure that was just a fitting test or advertisement photo taken before 2005.
Photos like this exist for many weapons during the 1994-2007 period when a lot of weapons were planned to be integrated/in development/offered for integration and things nowadays just look different
Im hoping we get the square display back. I prefer it a lot and you have info like missile ranging that isnt displayed on the circular one
Its not useless, as many would claim. One on EF’s specifically is a lot better than that of fulcrums and let alone floggers.
Two big use cases I find it really good at are:
- See contact dot at high alt → HMS IR lock it to get range and heading → make further informed decisions from there. Especially the range, because at 7km side-aspect 9M has decent chances of connecting. At 11km it does not. Usually you cant reliably eyeball either.
- Same thing but when someone is multipathing in my general direction. Gives accurate range + 9M gets slaved to target without setting off RWR. Those people more or less never look up, so that in fact is a big plus. Also spotting system works in way that targets below horizon get their markers at abysmal range, so IRST is super helpful in not losing them against terrain background.
And also dont let mig15’s in test drive mislead you, PIRATE has an all-aspect lock range of afterburning targets (which are all targets in ARB) at around 20km easily. So thats not a problem whatsoever.
You know… to think of it we can do literal zero-visibility CAS using brimstones and the AESA GMTI lol
Added:
Eurofighter (AESA) - Should have 200 degree wide scan option + 180° scan for German EF (for now until better source mention 200°) / Internal Report
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Eurofighter (AESA) - CAPTOR-E Electronic scan sector too small
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Eurofighter (AESA) - CAPTOR-E scan speed should be much faster
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Ohh that sounds a lot better than I thought! I’ll definitely mess about with it then. (After 3 months when I finally unlock the new jet).
Edit: I think I’ve got a decent handle on the systems on this thing but perhaps an expert could do a deep dive on the systems and how to get the most of them
I’ll add something here! PIRATE is a 30km HMD mode functionally. Swap to IR HMD, lock target, swap to radar.
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