Anecdotally ASRAAM has an already proven capability against very low heat signature targets like recon drones;
Those Orlan-10 drones only have a motor output of 0.95hp, the IR signature is tiny.
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That’s really impressive, locking on to essentially a weed whacker engine.
Damn, thats some cool Collection, I wiah it would be (that) eazy in game, most radars cant see them past ~1,8-2km
I wish Sky Sabre had the option to use ASRAAM too ;-;
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And then we get softlocked like the type 81
An unpleasant surprise for a fellow annoying neighbor in the morning
The batteries operate at around 120F and are usually externally mounted, the lightweight materials that make up the frame hold heat fairly well. Drones appear on our thermals fairly bright.
That, and the ASRAAM can follow shapes since it is IIR… right?
I’m not totally surprised.
Not on these models of recon drone no.
Orlan-10;
Zala;
Shahed has an externally mounted motor, but external batteries are typical of FPV drones not recon drones.
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I’m not advocating against it, I was just saying, but either way it should get them, unfortunately the Gripen is too unpopular
Eurofighter uses a Multifunction missile rail that can take AIM-9M and AIM-120s these are same rails used on the dual racks and dual AMRAAMS has been shown to be able to be done by the FCS
Overwhelming predicament in skill. Consider angling to bounce the 30mm and then sideclimbing for a better launch so your hellfire warhead can damage a converted civilian truck.
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Why does the EF lose all roll-ability if the controls for only one wing is damaged/destroyed but the structure is intact? Controls for the canards and the other wing are functional but you can’t roll at all anymore.
On the other hand: If you lose both wings up until the wingroots (so you’re effectively just a flying body) and the controls are intact, you can still roll (pretty good) even if you’re only flying with your body lift and canards.
Probably because if you roll with one wing you’re also applying an unintended pitch moment (since they’re elevons) and that gets damped by the instructor, whereas if you have neither wing that’s not an issue.
That’s funny because if you fly normally and pull to the side, without rolling manually before, the instructor let’s you fly a bobsled curve where you drift upwards because the EF can’t roll fast enough ^^
So the instructor doesn’t seem to habe much of a problem with that. You can’t even roll manually, the EF just doesn’t react to any roll inputs anymore in the case one wing control is lost.
Damage models feel incredibly random at times. Like the Tonka loses all pitch control with any damage to the elevators or the engines lose 50% of their power if any of the main body gets a scratch
Or the F-16 losing its whole tail control if the rudder gets damaged/destroyed (elevator controls always get destroyed too) or the A10 losing nearly all pitch control if only one elevater is lost (same with the F-16 too which loses 90% of its pitch control after losing one elevator). There are countless examples ^^
Yep, a total aircraft damage model overhaul has been needed for years. Maybe a decade
And implementing the control redundancies. Currently every control has zero redundancy making planes like the A10 (which should be a flying tank) extremely vournerable to every kind of damage.
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Yeah, that would be very cool.