Yeah, the EFT could have been truly insane if they werent so conservative with its performance.
I remember some folks who encourage about war is realistically asymmetrical as it’s always been, but when we use that mentality they just flat out deny :D
Wait a sec, arent current engines can actually deliver much higher thrust with software upgrade?
Iırc they are running on peace time configuration which delivers less thrust in exchange for more service life.
going by what has been discussed previously in this thread. so take it with a pinch of salt because I dont have the sources for them.
EJ200: 60/90 peacetime 70/95 war setting
EJ230: 72/103
EJ200 P3Ec: 78/120
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I remember seeing wartime with AB would be 105kn
I have no idea either way, could be
both could even be true, with there being 2 levels of war time setting
One of the only discussed figures I could find for P3Ec was from Kensai
Eurofighter, demonstrated interest in engine growth about 7 years ago, yet sadly beyond this there seem to be no more news about it even the 30% thrust growth only come from this single article Eurofighter Technology and Performance : Propulsion
Yeah, that likely culminated in P3Ec
but it doesnt look like its been implemented by anyone except maybe Germany for their T5s
This should have been already implemented with the coming of the T4 since the T5 will be automatically up to the P4E standards which will only be seen in 2031 TwT
We’ll have to see. The big question is how different the upgraded engines are to the existing ones in terms of parts. A big reason why they might not have done it so far is that the cost/effort to have 2 different engines and all the required logistics for said engines simply outweighted the benefits of having a more powerful engine for a relatively small part of the fleet. Especially when youve also got the relatively easy and low cost alternative of AMK on the table too
The cost to upgrade is probably quite high at the moment. I think I read a thing where they will be scaling down production of EJ200s soon, that might be so that they’ll start building the more powerful engines as standard, and so nations will slowly replace the EJ200s as they come to the end of their life which will be in the early 2030s
its the weaponry from the gripen bugged into the EF
you have AMRAAMs clipping into Aim-9s
and GBUs clipping into a Maverick
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yeah a bug unfortunately
MAW is again (or still) extremely unreliable. Shows missiles far out, then the missiles disappear and you think they diverted, then suddenly you see the missile with your eyes on your screen homing in onto you and a fracture of a second before impact the MAW alerts you again.
Oh and the Third-Person-Lockon for SPICE/GBU-53 ist still completely broken… You would think a bug which causes a whole class of weapons to be unusable in third person view would be fixed fast or be at least somewhat high in the priority chain.
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laughs in Bug that made ANY Laser guided Bomb useless which took what, 6 months?
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Looks more like your ZA Gripen C loadout remained and your EFT loadout spawned in on top. The Gripen C got those ASM’s and the forward missile there is a R-Darter followed by 9M which is how it is on the Gripen loadout.
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now that you mention the R-Darter I did check the Gripen to see if it had got the RB 15F so that makes sense. is this a new bug? I have never seen it before.
Seems to be yeah.
Yeah you’ll unfortunately have to prove the the capability to use an actual production RB-15 was put into the EFTs, we only have what appears to be a mockup for the Germans unfortunately
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I wonder which AShM’s the EFT will get (if any)
I know the Italian EFT’s have been seen with Marte ER, and iirc a German one with RBS15. Not sure about the British ones, but obviously ingame, none of the EFT’s got any yet afaik.
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