now if only gajin would add them with proxy head, for a2g i dont see any reason to use it over brimstone
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With high impulse rocket motor and the HEAT warhead APKWS should be pretty decent at taking out convoys of stuff, barring the tanks. Could run a couple pylons of brimstone for heavy armor and the rest APKWS for the light stuff. Gives you more options.
Well it is 4.3 so I don’t know why you’d take it higher than 5.0
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Yeah, but gaijin doesnt ever see things that way…
Is it just me or does the MAW still go off to flares?
I want proximity fuzes too. Is there actually a variant of the APKWS equipped with a proximity fuze? If it had a proximity fuze, the difficulty of operation would increase, but it should be able to neutralize enemy AAMs without consuming my own AAMs.
Brimstone is also possible, but since Brimstone has an extreme loft, it does not function at a close range.
The AGR-20F “FALCO” version uses a proxy fuze called Viper for this kind of counter-UAS role.
https://tsc.com/viper/
I imagine the next phase of BAE’s trials against airborne targets, will include tests with either this fuze or something like it
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Apparently there is also an IR homing head for the APKWS in development too. Fire and forget A2A micro missiles.
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So… 4x ASRAAM, 5x Meteor. 28x FnF APKWS.
That sounds like a pretty decent A2A weapons fit to me for ARB
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yes, that’s what I have been saying. Considering the shorter range of the IRIS-T, a less “powerful” seeker than them is not really detrimental as long as the missile still remains statistically unflarable within its flight envelope
Isn’t that developed to use against drone swarms where you wouldn’t want to guide every single missile to each target via laser?
Probably, yeah. I didn’t really read into the IR seekers all that much.
those are meant as a cheap anti drone weapon and not for A2G
BAE also added a short video on some of their social media.
Showing the test firing was against a surface target barge
From: BAE Systems, Instagram
Dare I say it… Yoink again haha.
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What happened to tail art and squadron markings.
No flourishes.
Forward deployed Typhoons are all in low vis schemes.
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Hello bad guy I’m right here.
Funnily enough you can see where they were.
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