It provide for sure a stand off engagement capability, albeit incomparable in performances and effectiveness to what brimstone and similar sistems could achieve.
I checked and the German typhoon is actually specified to be a T2 Block 10, presumably so they’ll add a newer version maybe?
But the Italian and British ones aren’t specified to a Tranche and Block.
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I tried to use them in an ASB match, but gave up as they have the annoying Mach 1.01 release limit and getting a typhoon to go sub-sonic, especially at alt is a chore.
Definetly need Spear-3s
Before we get a T4 or 5, block or trance don’t matter that much, if we are not talking about a T1, which is indeed not our case. The most important thing is the software standard, which dertermine the weapons available to an unit. But apparenlty that in game doesn’t matter either as proved by the example mentioned previously, so it is unlikely that we will get a new efa before a T4 or 5, which are new standards equipped with various upgrades over T2 and 3.
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Actually, my hope is that we get a T1 to “replace” the current Typhoons at their current BRs so the current ones can be upgraded further like getting CAPTOR-E
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I managed to explode a pantsir 22 km away, but I was only lucky due to it’s immobility. They are also not the best for spawn bombing, as the GBU62 use the small MK82 body, which has a pretty limited warhead. For instance, a MK83 body would have been more usable, still far from being efficient as an actual brimstone (without even taking spear into account), but better than what we got.
Yeah, GBU-64s would have actually been throwing us a decent bone, but GBU-62s were a bit wierd
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LJDAM right?
Yes, at least, one of them.
then they should be able to bring them on without issue in integration, I guess the whole testing deal is just standard procedure
No, they would have to integrate It
405 error x3
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My interpretation of that is that if the Aircraft already has intergration for JDAM then upgrading to LJDAM or JDAM-ER doesnt require any further intergration.
But im not sure if any Typhoon is cleared/has the necessary intergration for the base JDAM with GBU-54 being planned for intergration at some point or something. (Though dont quote me on that because Germany might have them intergrated)
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From what I remember, the German Efa’s are not equipped with a new software standard nor the latest one (which doesn’t include GBU54). And btw, the software deny the possibility of having weapons available only to specific a nation, indeed as long as the aircrafts are in the same standard, they will be able to use the same armaments.
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Yeah, but Gaijin has in the passed denied a nation a loadout option because it wasn’t in their inventory
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Gaijin’s overall argument is that if a plane as the technical capability to carry an armement, then it should. If said capability was removed (mechanically or with software) then it can’t have it in game.
And then obviously pretty much any situation has exceptions, so you can’t really rely on this
Well. We don’t need to look far… Britain does not get a 1000lb GPS+laser bomb that Italy and Germany get.
I assume because they are doing to add the ePaveway II eventually thats been in the files for like a year. But it hasn’t happened yet.
But that is a prime example of Britain not getting something due to it not being in our inventory. You also have the lack of napalm on the phantoms as another
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The EFT is such a cluster fuck tho. Devs clearly decide to retain possible equipments just to differentiate the plane across the different tech trees. No IRST for Germany, although technically nothing prevents it from equipping it, the pave way for the British one…
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Yeah, though with the GPS nerfs, a 1000lb GPS bomb would actually be really useful right now.
Though if they wanted to keep it unique, Britain should be the only nation with PW4s for now. (Italy is getting them soon-ish I think)
but anyway. Someone did submit a bug report for the EFTs to get Spice as they are planned for the German ones I think or something
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/USQ4XFlJG6k2
But would also be nice for us to finally get Brimstone 2s and Spear-3s for the EFT
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