I’ve always assumed it was effective range, rather than absolute max range. But Gaijin being Gaijin. They’ll probably self-destruct after 25km
Initially slower, but for the regime it’s slower you can probably abuse ASRAAM or take AMRAAM.
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I still do not understand the decision to procure A’s when the production lot will only be finished 2 years before Tempest IOC, on a plane which by that point will still only just be acquiring a basic UK weapons fit likely to also be included on Tempest, additionally we will have no sovereign control over them.
(Admittedly the A’s will probably be the earliest deliveries).
But to address the overarching point, yes we had better hope for A’s from Australia as the B will be the worst G-rating, with the fewest missiles and the worst T/W. And although our advantage will be the long range IR ASRAAM depending on how they implement stealth that might be a huge win, you still will only have 2 of them.
F-35 has a few issues that will likely result in a bit of a mid addition when it finally turns up.
Low countermeasure count;
BAE Systems presentation has 48 for the two bins;
Corrospondes to the two bin mounts seen here;
The only aspect of the F-35 im even remotely interested in is how they modeled the cockpit, especially the HMD and look-through-cockpit thing. If they model it at all.
They can’t even model HMD thermal vision.
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Yup, exactly :D
Big stretched blob
They can’t even model unstretched HUD, or a UV tint. It’s too hard
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You can see through the cockpit but vehicles dont appear for some reason :D
Radar while a fast scanning AESA, is a fixed plate system, which feels pretty antiquated by systems like ECRS will also be a bit of a let down.
Missile fit is a firm 6 missiles right now. 2x ASRAAM and 4x Meteor, I’m not sure how well that will do with the WT meta where spam has a quality of its own.
Its just gunna be our top tier CAS aircraft I think. All i plan to use it for
I mean they seem to be able to do it for pretty much everything else other than the Typhoons.
I’m just wondering if they will be able to make the gunsight work with those aircraft. (Again unlike the Typhoon.)
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Makes no sense. For example, rafale, SU30, J10C got their UV tint on Day 1. Eurofighter bug report still standing for over a year now.
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Even in CAS compared to a 4.5 Generation aircraft its a meagre load. 8x SPEAR while stealth, if you give up your only advantage which is RCS you can add 4xPW4 to that. Typhoon blows it out of the water for A2G capabilities.
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In terms of sustained CAS, yeah, but for SEAD ,making use of that stealth… it might be worthwhile.
Especially if SEAD mechanics are added properly to Air Sim and the stealth is actually half decent… It might be kinda fun gameplay. Otherwise yeah, Typhoon is just better.
If you’re delivering 8xSPEAR 3 in game stealthily you’re still doing it from stand off range anyway at which point the weapon is targetable by any platform. And at its max range of around 140km delivery with Typhoon or F-35 is a meaningless distinction in game other than overall capacity where a Typhoon could saturate a GBAD system with 18 launches an F-35 has a meagre 8.
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Cuz f35 is stealth slop
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I was thinking that we’d still be limited to at most 20ish km firing range but dealing with SAMs with equal or greater range than that. Where being able to use the stealth to enter and fire without having to alternative tactics like lofting PW4s for example would come into their own. Combine with just getting to the target, with the tiny map sizes and all the AESA, conventional stealth tactics no longer work.
But it is very very niche
Though this Aussie F-35A is dropping 69 flares in this video, so maybe the bins have double stacked flares?
Which would be ~96CM’s which isn’t as dog shit.
Unless its two bins per dispenser for 4x24 for 96x
Yeah that makes sense;
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