none of the eurofighters country ordered spice bomb
Yes that’s true. One of the original train of thought was that Germany would order it for their Eurofighter EK though.
It’s honestly lucky that the EFT got Spice bombs to begin with.
In general, it would just be better to have weapons that the EFT operationally uses, and for gaijin to actually model MMW. Now with MITL coming to helicopters, and even more so with the ability to aim specific weak spots while using the mode, I don’t see a single reason why the devs keep gate keeping the tech. Heck, just make MMW incapable of seeing through smoke, it’s not like every modern military doesn’t use electro magnetic counter measures in their smoke canisters
only cas buff that i could see is the brims and spears.
but need to be close range which still get intercepted anyway
Hey, we’ll be more than happy to remove the 8x Spice-250s and gain 18x mode 3 Brimstone 2/3s instead.
Literally no one wants Spice-250s over Brimstone 2/3s
People are acting like we gained a powerful weapon that we should not have and the Typhoon is overperforming compared to IRL. That is simply false.
Not only is it a pretty poor weapon that is buggy as hell at the moment, that barely seems to actually go for the target you direct it at. Its a fraction of the performance of the actual FnF A2G weapon we should actually have. Id quite gladly take 6x Mode 3 Brimstone 1s over the 8x Spice-250s, let alone Brimstone 2 or 3s. Go from 6 to 18, and there is just no competition anymore.
Need extra range? Just swap to Spear-3s instead.
Bare minimum needed:
- SAL Brimstone 2/3s
- GNSS or GNSS+SAL Spear-3s
- 6x AGM-88E and/or 6x ALARM
- 3x Storm Shadow
- 6x Marte-ER
What we should have by now with MITL and soon LOAL weapons added:
- Mode 2 MMW Brimstone 2/3s for GRB. Mode 3 for NE
- MMW+GNSS+SAL Spear-3s for NE
- 6x AGM-88E / 6x ALARM
- 3x Storm Shadow
- 6x Marte-ER
Using Soviet rules. Probably could get Typhoon (missiles) and ARMIGER as well tbh
also the german EFT AESA having IRST despite the real one not having it
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I wonder how Gaijin would rectify it if they add the German Tranche 4 when it would/could be a downgrade due to lack of IRST on the Tranche 4. Or do they just not add the Tranche 4 and keep using the “AESA Eurofighter”.
technical compatibility
a field you should know very well
or will you advocate for the Rafale to loose the HMD and the 2 extra missiles?
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it’s funny because they limit the german EFT to the 90° ECRS instead of the 100° one because “Germany bought ERCS Mk 1” but the same apparently doesn’t apply for them not buying PIRATE (except on test airframe)
By Gaijin’s own standard, they look at what the operational airframes have when it comes to IRST, so that technical compatibility wouldn’t apply to the Tranche 4, they can get away with it on the AESA Typhoon cause it’s not an operational airframe.
Who cares what I think, we’re looking at what Gaijin is going to do with these vehicles.
germany didnt planned to buy PIRATE. so it doesnt get apllied in the plannned features and possible upgrades.
If this were your genuine view you wouldn’t be voicing your opinion in this manner on the typhoon forum.
So if Tranche 4 in the future is meant to represent “operational airframe” of the Quadriga, it won’t have IRST I suppose?
Apparently the case here is that the German EFT is supposed to be a mixture of what was tested and what has been planned to come in the future. I’m not 100% sure, so in that sense German EFT has just the ECRS and also the IRST. But it does leave a bit of a question on what happens in capability difference compared to the Tranche 4 which the operational airframes will not have IRST.
to correct you before going deep on the subject.
Germany doesnt operate any tranche 4.
The context of the post matters though, I just meant that I’m speculating on what Gaijin might do with the next addition of Eurofighters going by their previously stated rules such as denying the German Typhoon its IRST due to the operational airframes not having it. Someone then asked me in regard to compatibility of another aircraft which still doesn’t break Gaijin’s previously stated rules.
Is the newly delivered Quadriga aircraft not the Tranche 4s?
it is a tranche 4 but has yet seen fully operational on the air force.
Sure but they then also gave the german typhoon IRST… that the operational airframes don’t have.
They’ve gone both ways.