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

120C over 120B? I’d say 10 percent max. Maybe less.

Oh nice atleast this bug got fixed

[DEV] EF Typhoon (All) AIM-120C-5 name on HUD/HMD bugged

Still got a few more bugs that have been accepted during this dev server but still broken.
[DEV] Eurofighter Typhoon HUD is not centered
[DEV] Eurofighter (all) artificial horizon bugged
[DEV] EF Typhoon (all) NTCR on MFD bugged
Eurofighter FGR.4 TGP MFD Tilted to the side

Not to mention the tons of other reports for the cockpit from when the Typhoon’s first got added.

Wait, so its not even a “this isnt a feature of a fixed wing aircraft” its just staright up a bug for the Typhoon?

What exactly? I didn’t quite understand you.

If the F-2s Tpod will cue to the radar lock, then clearly its not a mechanic that only helis can have.

In the past they’ve said stuff like “the harrier gr7 cant get MAWS because that is a heli only mechanic for now”

So I assumed that maybe the Typhoons Tpod not cueing to radar lock was the same. But if the F-2 can do it, then the Typhoon should be able too

It works on the rafale internal camera that’s for sure.
However whenever the radar target position is outside of the camera limits of the in built camera (or Tpod if installed), then the camera lock will fix itself on a GPS point in the last seen location of the camera, and you need to deactivate the target point.

Does it straight up just not work for the EFT ?

Doesnt work with GMTI vs ground or naval targets

Doesnt work with PIRATE and radar lock

Doesnt work with PIRATE and IRST lock

So yeah. Doesnt work in any mode or with either camera

I’ll make a report for it.

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Much appreciated

Does a report need ot be done for slaving PIRATE and Litening III tpods to locked targets as well?

PIRATE to slave to TWS report is in already, unsure if we’d need another for LITENING.

Specifically for GMTI lock though.

Having the Tpod lock to the radar is a huge buff for the Typhoon, especially with the SAL brismtones.

In gamemodes like SB, without that, the GMTI is basically unusable as you have to manually search for the target in the tpod anyway

Would be just as beneficial in the future for other aircraft too, like the Tornado Gr1/4.

For example. If I want to engage a destroyer in ASB. I could find the target on radar and it would display in the HMD/HUD. But Id still have to manually point the Tpod at the target and lock onto it. Which I could have done without ever using the radar in the first place

If the radar cued. I could lock the target with the radar, fly over the target and drop PW4s onto it without ever “leaving the cockpit” to have to mess around with the tpod. The QoL upgrade is rather massive.

In GSB, it would be more hassle than its worth even swapping to GMTI in the first place

As I understand it, the only winged/glided air-to-surface weapon the Typhoon has is the StormShadow?

MAKO is also being considered as a possible hypersonic missile

Taurus for the German Typhoon isntead of Storm Shadow

Spear-3 has just been test fired, so thats another option

and I think the Germans trialed HOSBO or HOPE? I can never remember the name

Both. HOSBO is the one with modular warheads (in theory at least, no idea what kind of warheads ones were ever made/tested) and HOPE is a bunker buster

What is the fundamental difference?

I can’t even express how much I doubt the snail will give us this.

Overall, it is extremely disappointing that there is no TV/IR “fire and forget” air-to-ground weapon. Theoretically, there is ARH, but the snail, as it seems to me, does not want to give it out of principle, since the Soviet + American TT do not have such a weapon, so the others do not need it either.

Much much later, SPEAR 3 without mmW seems the most likely like a longer range Brimstone with GPS and Laser guidance

Uh… Pass :D

For the msot part I think theyd be largely the same, but would still be nice to model some uniqueness between the Typhoons if possible

I think someone has told me before that Taurus could just about track moving targets whislt Storm Shadow cant, but beyond that im not sure.

Fundamental difference? None really.

Irl? Taurus uses a much more sophisticated fuze and it’s IIR seeker is exposed during its entire flight (no Idea if it actually does anything tho)

In game? They’ll look different lol