Eurofighter Typhoon (UK versions) - Technical data and discussion (Part 2)

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I am not sure that I would be confident of 4 Meteor. We’ve never seen 4 Meteor mounted to the aircraft, nor have we ever seen Meteor on the door bay. I’ve seen some speculation that due to Meteor being bulkier and the F-35B bay not being long, they can’t stagger them as planned on the A, which is how they should fit on the A.

Yes its speculation, but we’ve only ever seen Meteor in 1 position, and we’ve only ever seen it mounted as a 4 AAM loadout when paired with AMRAAM and not with 4 Meteors.

Officially the ‘goal’ is still 4, but that’s only a goal.

Would be the final nail in the coffin if there’s any truth to that.

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Perhaps we can mitigate that through Britecloud?

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Would be launched from the same 96x shot bay, sure per shot BC is more effective but still not a huge quantity. I’d like to see BOL on the SRAAM pylons.

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Hopefully we can forgo stealth for more missiles…even 10 Meteors and 2 ASRAAM would be nice

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VLO BOL to complement the external only VLO pylons might be a worthwhile investment, but as of right now only the US and Israel have the modifications rights to make that call.

I can’t help but think the whole aircraft needed to be a touch bigger, with an F-15 baseline rather than an F-16 baseline.

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This would realistically be the only real use the F-35 would have. Which would be a tad funny

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This does show 2 Meteors mounted next to each other in the same bay?

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I meant true representative meteors (not mockups but rather duds), and confirmation the bay can be closed.

Wouldn’t be the first time mockups existed but were deemed impractical (eurofighter cft’s).

It’s reassuring, but I’ll believe it when i see it.

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I do wonder if the meteor would work with sidekick.

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MBDA is claiming a 2xASRAAM 4xMeteor fit as well;

Spoiler

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Look how small the aft control surfaces on the meteor missile are.

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This is for the F-35A for Italian Meteor integration.

Meteor integration advances on F-35A after ground tests

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Oh and to add to that, that’s an A i believe.

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Yeah there we go, A has a longer bay that’s also larger.

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Yep in game it will fly like a rocket unable to turn…because how could something with no large fins like Superior R-27 even hope to pull more than 15G

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Well Gaijin can always give us the Aus F-35A if the RAF don’t buy them

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Thats a Marine Corp 35B no?

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The other missile is an AMRAAM, that was my point. You may get 2+2 but not so sure about all 4 being Meteor.

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https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles/meteors-first-flight-on-an-f-35b/

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Look at that cable management

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