one of the only reasons to grind Britain 😢
Will meteor on F-35 only be adopted by Britain? I thought other European F-35 would also be using Meteors once it is finally integrated
Besides there are/would be more reasons to grind Britain
I was going to post this but pretty sure the footage of it shooting down drones is from an ongoing war in Iran so thought it was against the rules
On the RAF’s books - there are more Typhoons available than F-35 so you’ve already got your air-to-air specialist that can smite His Majesty’s opponents from the sky using Meteor, etc. You don’t necessarily need a super sneaky platform to actually fire the missile - it would be entirely possible for F-35s to act as targeters for the older jets.
The REAL need would be the Fleet Air Arm when playing at sea with their 35Bs - there is definitely an argument for those to be given something like Meteor that can knobble threats to the Carrier from a long way off.
Alas, if you are going air-to-air with an F-35 you are probably using it wrong in any case. Just a takeaway I’ve noted from discussions with far smarter people than me. Hence the eye-rolling that inevitably ensues from such clever boffins when you ask why it isn’t as fast as a Typhoon or as agile or as adept at carrying lots of explosive things from A to B.
Quite a different beastie - so much so that calling it a ‘Fighter’ is a bit of a red herring.
So, what are the chances that someone will hit all 6 C-5s launched in a salvo from a Typhoon? Because i just met a guy who hit all 6 of them and then just landed and remained at the airfield until the game is over
Its a QinetiQ Banshee target drone.
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Hi there, I have a question. Can EFT fire Meteor or AMRAAM using it’s IRST?
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I believe it can based on the report that was submitted, the developers wanted more direct confirmation. I did FOIA the MOD on this, and got my first “we can neither confirm or deny” answer;
We are treating your correspondence as a request for information under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). After careful consideration, the Ministry of Defence
can neither confirm nor deny (NCND) whether the information you have requested is
held. This response is made in reliance on the following exemptions under the FOIA:• Section 26(3): This exemption applies where the act of confirming or denying
whether the information is held would, or would be likely to, prejudice the
capability, effectiveness, or security of the armed forces.• Section 27(4)(b): This exemption applies where the act of confirming or
denying whether the information is held would, or would be likely to, prejudice
the United Kingdom’s relations with an international organisation or
international court.
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So its a yes, its Possible :3
Ohk, Thanks for the info!!
im assuming they’re using the SAL seekers?
Yeah, just standard APKWS II. Though the press release talked of the air to air version getting qualified though they could’ve meant just using the SAL version for A2A as can be seen in the video.
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firing it is one question, but providing dl updates is another.
for example, irst on su-30 can slave the seekerhead of astra, but it can’t provide dl updates
IRST by itself cant provide DL to the missile, it needs the radar/dedicated transmitter to do it.
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exactly, so i question the usefulness of it.
in WT, we had a glorious period of time where you could fire on IRST alone and it allowed for some really sneaky shots without alerting the target, reducing the time they had to react and notch.
But we are now back in the days where the radar will swap to IRST to maintain a hard lock and block you from being able to fire despite originally locking with the radar
Though I would also assume that Gaijin might use the same argument for denying PIRATE being able to fire an AMRAAM to also argue that PIRATE cant be used to fire an ASRAAM in LOAL.
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As long as a channel from radar/dedicated transmitter is used, It should be able to guide it. Considering all the merging happening inside the internals, that was discussed somewhere else, it is entierly possible EF can guide using only the PIRATE.
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yeah but atp you’re still gonna get a radar warning.
it’s like the f-14b/mig-29s guiding radar missiles through their irst (irl), all they’re doing is slaving the cw illuminator/radar beam onto the irst lock so victim is still getting a rwr warning.
so like you might as well use the radar
IRST on its own no, but from when PIRATE did let you do it, I was mostly firing within ARH seeker range anyway.
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