So with America receiving 2 version of AGM-179, SAL and IR respectively, from what I read, it never had IR Version it’s pretty identical to Brimstone, so why the American one can got it but not the British?
But the AH-64E I dont think has yet to ever use JAGM-MR, so its being added as a bodge. But its annoying that the Spice-250 has been denied for the Typhoon and they are still radio silent about even giving us SAL Brimstone 2/3s or GPS Spear-3s.
Why would they do that though? CAMM is basically an ASRAAM with ARH seeker instead of IR, and CAMM-ER with modified motor. They could just make a new ARH missile, which they did, in the form of Meteor. However, I could imagine a ground-launched Meteor with perhaps modified motor to increase range, but that’ll probably be quite expensive
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
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.
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)