It’s not a bug per se, which means that’s going straight to the “forwarded as suggestion” pile I suspect.
Yet we have evidence from an airshow and a document stating that is simply not true.
Regular Eurofighter…Looks at Italian and German Typhoons using Brimstones…
The double standards strike again.
I notice there is no plan to give UK Ah-64 Brimstones in SAL mode…But the US Ah-64 is getting JAGM a copy of
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Is Britain even getting the AH-64E this major?
In all fairness in the current state of brimstones it wouldn’t even be an improvement. They have 100ms less dv than a hellfire-K. If we had 2/3 then it would be viable.
Important to note that brimstone on the 64 is about as real as starstreak on the 64. To have one but not the other is a very very weird double standard to impose.
No sign of it.
AH-64E only ever test fired Brimstone 2s (though so did the Typhoon)
The majority of weapons have only been test fired. That’s generally a good thing to be said about them.
MBDA has a video wit a few claims about the heli brimstone’s capability (including an airburst fuse)
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Brimstone was tested on the UK Ah-64 and it was from those tests that the US derived and integrated the JAGM.
Even now UK Ah-64 could carry the Brimstone with the primary reason not to being cost to establish another supply chain and the software to configure the Ah-64E to do so. If you also notice traditionally the UK Apaches were reconfigured with RR powerplants. The new E models are essentially the exact same as the US models (excluding some changes in MAWS systems)
Apache Fires BRIMSTONE Missile
More than enough evidence to justify Brimstones inclusion for UK Ah-64
Pretty sure the AH.1 never tested brimstones. Only the AH-64E did.
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wouildnt even matter to much, would still be laser guided in war thunder
25km SAL Brimstone 2s might be usable.
You are right I forget how old the Ah mk1 is. I seemed to think the Ah-64E was brand new when we have had them for a few years now.
Well maybe in a few updates we can finally have an FnF CAS platform for top tier…
well strictly speaken both the hornets and the gripen get access to fnf even if they aren 13.0 but 12.7 instead
You are correct, the Gripen is a harder sell having to sacrifice your main A2A for 4 Agm-65s and BOL pods is rough.
The Hornet though should be a really good CAS alternative
Realistically you dont need Gripen for the UK lineup. You can bring EFT for CAP and AU hornet for CAS. Given it can have BOL and its AGM65E and such last i checked. Its make it a vastly better lineup for the UK than before and if you wanted to you could use the Gripen as your CAP/CAS backup and have the hornet still be additional CAS. Its definitely far better then some nations for Top tier.
Has the AU hornet gotten confirmation that it should have the A model engines?
Agreed, top tier CAS is nice for UK not sure I will grind the F/A-18
Gripen was needed for back in the day but now I agree it could be removed
Wouldn’t happen, as the Gripen still fills the 13.7 area for air. Just like how the Ito on France wont get removed despite them having no actual ties to its creation outside of selling the missile system on the market. Or the F16AJ still existing and not getting removed after the OCU but i digress.
Will say the GR.7 is still one of the better 12.0 CAS slingers given it has access to AGM 65G. Cant think of any nations that have AGM65G at 12.0
Nvrmind forgot about the AV-8B lmao
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GR.7 with MAW, the full BOL load and 4+4 65G, 9M is easily among the best CAS we’ve got if not the best rn
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Does it hang with the newer SAMs being unbearably slow doesn’t fill me with much hope.