Ehh, don’t worry about it.
I can’t sleep either way, so might as well waste some time on the forum :)
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It is just a boost-sustain motor
The motor manufacturer’s website also implies boost-sustain.
Spoiler
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So everyone calls it wrong, nice ^^
But 52 seconds sustainer burn are really long. Guess the 93 km range are pretty realistic for it.
That is only for a high altitude launch. From Sea Level you are probably looking at more like 30-40 km IIRC.
does this mean AGM-88 is better than ALARM since it just free falls?
ALARM only loiters when it cant find a target i think? (when target turns radar off)
if it finds one it goes for it normally iirc, just with lofting profile
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in normal ARM modes the HARM is better in speed, range, warhead and seeker
Nothingburger…like getting F18 after the Eurofighter.
It does increase the FnF count from 8 to 12? if im not mistaken, which is a 50% increase. Given that other nations will now be dropping 20 FnF weapons. It helps a little (though of course the Typhoon has some of the weakest FnF)
SM SV (and there’s always one in GSB) trashes 8 SPICEs without breaking a sweat. Another 4 HOSBOs won’t make any difference, let alone a few ARMs. The only thing that could make a difference, IMO, is 18 active Brimstones, to oversaturate it, so that something can get through and kill it.
Yeah, which is why they wont add them
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Or just Zuni pods…
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So close to the almighty Meteor.
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Why has the Eurofighter been limited to carrying only 2 anti radiation missiles? It should be able to carry more.
Because Gaijin is quite pedantic when it comes to what weapons can be carried where on non russian aircraft.
Here’s another interesting question (to which I don’t know the answer). Would not a slowly parachuting ALARM be doppler-gated by most radars until it was released? Certainly not a big radar return anway and easily filtered out?
I just have visions (fever dreams) of all these ALARMs stooging around above the postage-stamp sized GRB maps just WAITING for someone to light up a radar. At that point…
Most radars can’t even see that high an angle.
I heard that a “thrust control” feature has been implemented for missile guidance. The Meteor should be fine.
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Oh well appearantly FCAS got terminated (not really a surprise). So maybe EF successor without france again ^^