They were probably waiting for the AIm-120B improvements but Desert Storm forced their hand. From what little I know. Aim-120A was far harder for ground crews or something?
if u include test fires than r27r/er would also have an earlier date.
Eh, they didn’t use AMRAAM in Desert Storm but they did use it later in the region, so I think they were fine with the 120A and just took their time with it
When was the R27ER first test fired then?
Not to play devils advocate but the Soviet union collapsing would have delayed any integration of R-27ER or R-77.
27ER entered service the year before
the economy of the soviet union was in decline for a few years before it collapsed
it wasnt something that just happened from one day to the other
May I ask what the R-27ER has to do with the Eurofighter Typhoon?
Last time I played it the Eurofighters didnt had any R-27
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F-15s carried amraams, but never fired one in DS
Spoiler
Difficult to outbvr someone during 100m multipath
Sure, but amraam wasn’t in the game during the
The Mig29SMT was added in the sons of Attila same time as the F16C, needless to mention the latter was infinetely Better than the SMT.
It certainly wasn’t weaker at the time nor After, and It always remained competitive up until very recent times where it’s started to struggle.
Why is the targeting pod acting like this, i tried locking it like 8 time and nothing happened
Yeah it doesn’t work for some reason, it’s probably for all planes since i had this problem on the rafale too.
IRST lock broken afaik.
This is on striker II correct?
Did you even read what he wrote?
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Striker I. Striker II uses almost all new symbology.
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Today I tried low fov GMTI brimstone run and killed a teammate. To say he was shocked is a little bit of understatement. He was behind the bush so his nametag kinda blended in. I tried to break a lock in the last moment, but radar swiped again and relocked him lol. But it has a potential… Maybe…
Also am I the only one noticing that brimstones are much harder to use against helicopters now? Sometimes they just refuse to fly in them. Maybe I’m just imagining things… I’m just running full pw-IV right now, they’re much more comfortable to use.
No I remember watching a video years ago that states the limits of striker is full colour support (hence why striker II subsequently offers many more colours), I wasn’t aware Striker I could display anything other than green and yellow. I clearly meant the colour and symbology rather than the actual battle-space projection
Edit: also the guy in the photo is Paul smith who does a lot of the demonstrations for the future of typhoon, a lot of which was Striker II which added to my confusion
By the way, can Typhoon carry same bomblet pod Tornado can?
Ive seen a lot of people comment that they cant lcok onto helis with the Tpod. Ive straight up not used the Typhoon in GRB in about 6+ months. So I cant comment either way.
No. It cant carry JP233 (at least i’ve never seen it mentioned, but I do doubt it). should be able to carry BL755 CBUs though iirc.