It has much more additional data displayed than what we have in game
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the stuff on the left is mostly naviagtional stuff regarding the autopliot and waypoints, thats not really relevant for WT
we are missing the energy cue symbology tho (the thing thats partly blurred)
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I’d imagine METEOR has an LPI seeker, as I’m pretty sure it’s a electronically scanned array
mechanically or a electronically?
Apologies, forgot that part. It uses tech taken from the ASTER and MICA missiles, then improved and combined so I’d imagine AESA
Fairly certain METEOR just has a tweaked MICA seeker at the moment. There was a planned upgrade for the Meteor that would swap it for AESA or something that was in partnership with Japan, but I think that project is dead, or has radically changed.
There is also the Meteor-ER but not a lot is known about that I think
Yeah not sure, I know the seeker uses bits from ASTER too, and MBDA describe that seeker as an ‘active electromagnetic seeker’
So that’s up to interpretation really
Either way it’s definitely going to be ESA, so i find it hard to believe the best and brightest at MBDA didn’t think to entertain som method of LPI, in whatever form
It’s interesting to me that you see more complications with Typhoons design than the absolute monumental corruption associated with any Russian military procurement.
As for capabilities well Su-30/35 are good enough on paper but Typhoon has been operating with IIR missile a protection suite/maws and Meteor. For decades now.
Russia is just comissioning R-77M to front line VKS units.
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No, I just wasn’t sure I should be mentioning the, lets say, “allocation of military budget for non essential spending” of certain nations. I’'m not entirely clear on the rules regarding that, you see.
I genuinely have no idea what to make of that - it feels like horlicks but I’m uneducated this modern (my happy space is “British Naval-based Air Defence”)
Ah the “I don’t believe it defence”
You can believe it all you want, but just because “I don’t believe a Submarine is there” does not mean I will not be imploded in 30 seconds time by a 650mm Wake Homing “Carrier-killer” torpedo fired by a Ru- explosion
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Here we go again.
Another: “This is clearly a marketing lie” moment.
I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO tired of this happening.
Why do we even bring documentation and stuff anymore? The devs won’t believe it anyway.
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LPI works for missiles? The distance they activate its own radar is so small, it wont spike in RWR being LPI or not?
Guys do we have hope?
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Hope for what?
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For a normal scan speed
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No. I don’t believe it at all. For our planes, Snail adds legitimate features a year or more after they should have been. After a year of fighting “it’s a marketing lie” and “we don’t believe it.” Meanwhile, “some” branches are maintained and bugs are reported at the “trust me bro” level (as I heard).
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Have you seen what they did to IRIS-T SLM?
Stingers 😢
What missiles would bring the Eurofighter on par, armament wise, with the R77-1 or even MICA?
Would the 120D have the capabilities to be closer to R77-1 and MICA?
Meteor would be a different solution where the Eurofighters would actually have an edge at long range instead of simply wasting AMRAAMS that are trivial to dodge for any pilot that is even half awake.
As long as Meteor behaves as an ARH version of the R27ER, or something. And by that I mean that it should have the kinetics of an R27 with a MICA seeker.
That would be quite cool actually since that way the Rafales, Sukhois and Eurofighters could remain distinct. But then what would the US jets get in order to not be left behind?