I made my case for them long ago, using this image and MFRL rail capabilities, guess they finally decided it was needed.
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Plausable deniability is stretchy enough so that’s what they made out of it
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No Idea likely not.
yes multiple times
Current status of the AIM-9M / AIM-9L/I:
Front-/Rear-Aspect:
Defeated by a single flare with only a very slight maneuver if not fired below 1 km (in front-aspect that means the missile doesn’t even activate its warhead before the target passed the missile and you). Always defeated by a slight maneuver if the target spams flares in very short succesion. If the tagret flares before you locked on, you will never be able to lock on as the seeker is always “shut off” as long as flares are inside its giant FoV.
Side-Aspect:
Currently locks flares if the target flares before locking. If fired with a solid lock it’s somewhat okay, but if the target spams flares and maneuvers slightly it’s defeated reliably if the missile is not closer than 2 km already (where IOG and fast relocks can compensate enough if the missiles kinematics are still good enough).
Conclusion:
If you got locked on and fired at, flare spam let’s you reliably defeat the AIM-9Ms “seeker shutoff” IRCCM in every situation even with only very small maneuvers. It’s so laughable. Funnily, aircraft with BOL have an advantage here as the seeker shutoff is independent of the intensity (as far as I could test) and it keeps being shut off until the flare either burns out or leaves the FoV which takes longer for BOL flares and planes usually have way more of them.
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LAU-131A/A with APKWS-II, please
Photos taken yesterday at Warton by Jay Ingram (and some more on his Facebook)
It’s ZK356, not the ECRS Mk.2 test ship (ZK355). So a regular Typhoon FGR.4 Tranche 3
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It wouldn’t surprise me if we use them to take out drones. Much cheaper than using AMRAAMs/ASRAAMs.
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Indeed that’s currently what they’re being used for on F-16 and F-15 in the US
In light of current events; rapidly getting this capability certified with the tests like this one yesterday, and in service as a UOR, seems inevitable.
It’s also possible we’re asked to certify it on behalf of one of the Gulf customers who have these drones flying in to their back yard. But the fact it’s being done by 41 TES and with a Litening pod rather than Sniper pod, suggests it’s most likely for us.
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Yoink!
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With this and the new IR seeker (fire and forget lmao) we move one step closer to Ace Combat IRL. With the HEAT warhead and the IR seeker you’ve basically got the classic standard missile from those games. Even turns terribly IRL too.
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Nudged the report again.
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do we have a full list of unresolved bugs for the typhoon like there is for other vehicles, just wondering how many inaccuracies there are
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thanks
Needs an update mate
Added ))))
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Isnt that the one which is fixed on dev?