Impossible
is that an artwork ?
yes.
Biggest clue being ALARM, which was never mounted on a EF
yea and i think even the paveways are blocking the landing gear doors.
well. Was mounted, but intergration was canceled as the ALARM were retired before it officially happened. Gunna be interesting to see what the devs do, because we have 2 contradictory evidence and depends on precisely what they consider “enough” for inclusion in game
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What anti radiation missile does ef use then?
EK is planned to be equipped with AGM-88E.
Spear-EW is in development iirc.
But usually just Brimstone 2/3s. for SEAD With supporting Tornados operating ALARM/AGM-88. Which does kinda make sense. Why dispatch a Typhoon with 2x ALARM, when you could deploy a Tornado GR4 with 9x ALARM.
At least until its retirement.
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Not everyone runs ARM’s, particularly since for the last 30 years, most nations had no reason to need ARM’s considering most poor people in middle eastern countries are notably devoid of high power radar and capable long range GBAD systems. US needed/needs them cuz they’re in the business of invading countries they don’t like every few weeks, but most other nations havent really done much with ARM’s beyond maybe buy them from the US to retain the capability and knowhow to some degree. The other available PGM’s are typically good enough to deal with the target set that existed in the majority of conflicts since the fall of the soviet union.
Now that the politicians of the world are gearing up for more wars to distract the public from them and the other ultra wealthy robbing us all blind, countries are starting to look into how to fight things slightly more advanced than a couple guys with improvised explosives and AK’s, so ARM integration and EW aircrafts are making a bit of a comeback.
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Which changes every 30 seconds.
Yeah…
Direct specification from Leonardo unless you’re suggesting that it it could be a clear marketing lie?
Practically, if that is full of electronics, there is no way it weighs 8kg. OSF is 87 and OLS-35 is 83. It’s probably 80 - i’ve seen worse typos.
Then again looking through the part 1 we have:
48???
60???
so who even knows
It’s a typo on the latest revision of the datasheet. Older versions of the datasheet all say 48 kg.
I’d go with 48 kg, as that features on multiple datasheets.
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Would make the most sense as 8 could easily be a typo from 48.
Sidenote,
Any news on the MAW? It still can’t handle SARH missiles correctly.
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Its only been 2 months. Gotta wait at least the pre-requisite 12-18 months before they look at the bug report. Then wait for the soviets to get PD MAWS which is affected by the issue before its actually resolved
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We will near certainty get a MAWS rework when the Su-35 is added. Probably give it some tested super Russian features.
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Soviet MAWS has been around for much longer. Even today I suspect it is broadly along these lines:
The sound of bits of the plane dropping off. Possibly more warning lights on the dash (than normal), more leaks from the airframe trailing behind (than normal, anyway) and possibly a bumpy ride as the airframe’s basic aero is altered dramatically.
‘Da - looks like missile was launched at me after all! What air defen… ahem…countermeasures doing?’
Was thinking more IR dazzlers or a mini Kashtan turret ha ha
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Don’t give Gaijin ideas man!
All we need now is some muppet wheeling out a dodgy sales brochure (you see, this An-2 could carry S-400!) and they’ll whack it into the game before you can say ‘Not a Bug.’
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Brimstones, since the update seem to suffer from the JAGM effect. Missile are not hitting the top of the target but the barrels, armoured front plates and taking more missiles to destroy a target.
Anyone else experiencing this? Have to say it’s more of a Russian problem (3 to kill a T-80)