Well Gaijin can always give us the Aus F-35A if the RAF don’t buy them
The other missile is an AMRAAM, that was my point. You may get 2+2 but not so sure about all 4 being Meteor.
Look at that cable management
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Let me guess how it will be implemented. (Not clipped wing). 20-30g turn rate. No throttable ramjet mode, just a super long motor burn. Same seeker as aim120b. Call it a day.
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Indeed, and that render is of a B, but we will see when it shows up that way, as I mentioned further up. We are yet to see a flight test of 4 Meteor.
We have only ever seen mockups and renders of that configuration, and flight tests of 2Meteor+2AMRAAM.
They’d do better to copy the MICA seeker, Meteor uses a MICA seeker derivative.
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See now this I could work with but that this point we aint stealth anymore and it still doesn’t have a radar like ECRS.
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Gaijin: “please provide 10 OEM manuals proving that meteor uses the same seeker as mica.”
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We do actually have quite a lot of sourcing for this.
It’s also why I personally believe that France Veto’d JNAAM.
Might as well stick to EFT on that point. Ignoring all the sensors comparisons.
F-35 is nowhere near the Kinematic performance of Eurofighter, IRL and in-game. You just wouldn’t choose to sacrifice that.
how does LOAL work without datalink ? is like like firing fox3s and waiting for its own seeker head to pick up the target ? but with IIR ?
Yes, the HMD/Radar/IRST provide target data to the missile which is loaded prelaunch. The missile then goes on a pre-planned course based on that target data and searches the expected area with its seeker.
Is F-35A going to be configured for internal carriage of Aim-260?
The respective goal for F-35A (and C) is 6 internal AIM-260 with sidekick.
Australia will actually be the first export customer for this.
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In this configuration, the F-35 is a sitting duck.
Nah you see how Gaijin models thrust vectoring…F-35B will be able to just drift past missiles…
Or hover and be immune to ARHM
great… 6 abysmal missiles. Ig every nation that’s not russia, china or usa will be cucked with the f-35 and the abysmal aim-120/aim-260 for “stealth missiles”. At least america’s 5th gen, the f-22 can use internal sidewinders.
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