Yes I’m sure I’ve seen Typhoons with tail hooks, I’m sure I’ve even seen a video of a typhoon land on an aircraft carrier with a tail hook I swear.
In-game yeah probably, but IRL its for emergency runway landings . Same reason the Tonka has one
First time I hear about a navalized EFT. I always assumed the front landing gear structure would be too weak to handle catapulting and hook arrested landings, at least not without some relatively major modification of the air intake
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It was proposed for the RN as well iirc, but was rejected because it would require such extensive re-design of the landing gear
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Yeah that makes sense. That’s one of the issue with this design of air intakes. Also the possible issue of FOD, idk if it’s that much of an issue on aircraft carriers but it looks like it’s a consequent danger on them as crews make 2 (?) sweeps of the deck everyday to check for them
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yeah that landing gear in those renders looks weeeaaakk, I hope that’s not really what they proposed for the actual plane if it had come out
Pretty sure, if the radar target turns off, it flies around in the air for upto 2h waiting for it to turn back on so it can reacquire the target and strike
ALARM doesn’t fly around, it slowly descents on a parachute. And the loiter time is something like 3 minutes, not two hours.
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I’d love to see the footage, but I highly suspect you just mistook a Rafale or even a naval LCA prototype for a Typhoon.
Typhoons are just not designed for that, they have neither the necessary undercarriage, not the systems to align easily
When i first googled like 2 years ago, it states it flies around for upto 2h in circles before striking the target (which i dont think is possible tbh). In comparison to the US one that just well falls out the sky when it looses the target
EJ 230 is fully developed? Typhoon already has good kinematics, imagine with these
Yep, I think this is a video of it
just never installed on an actual airframe as far as I am aware, it was considered an expensive overkill i think.
But yeah, Imagine AMK + EJ230s
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It would be interesting to know if the EJ230 or any other further developement uses things like structural ceramics (for the combustion chamber or any other of the hot parts) or CFP (Carbonfiber reinforced plastics). The EJ200 doesn’t use any of these AFAIK, so it’s still a “full-metal” engine (except for the obvious TBCs on the turbine blades but these are not structural ceramics). Could enhance power and efficiency without sacrificing lifetime too much while at the same time reduce engine weight.
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Anyone noticed, that, instead of ignoring flares, the AIM-9M now locks onto flares if the target is flaring during the aquisition phase before launch? It should keep being SRC (or switch back to it) until the target plane can be locked on solidly. But currently you can lock flares and fire at them.
In front aspect they’re unusable as flares force the seeker-shutoff to be constantly active as they keep being inside the FoV for so long. Combined with the extremely short aquisition distance in front-aspect (nearly impossible above 2 km) your chance to land a hit in front aspect are close to zero (except the enemy isn’t flaring at all).
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Think it might just be the best dogfighter in the world
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