What we really need is 4x ASRAAM, 5x METEORs and 12x Brimstone 3s.
That should give us a half decent A2A fit :P
I can’t wait for ASRAAM, I will likely run the S4+M5 generally. But short maps S6+M4 for sure.
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Yeah, 6+4 fits will be fun!
I prefer long-range high-altitude combat, but with LOAL thermal missiles even I will switch to the S6M4. Even the AIM-9M, if they had LOAL, would fly far (800 m/s delta V is a respectable energy reserve) well… at least 15 kilometers when launched head-on. And if you remember that the superTEMP has about 800 delta V, then you could expect a distance of well over 20 km when launched at altitude head-on. And the ASRAAM has an expected delta V of well over 1000. So… 40km+ launch?)
We will have to estimate how much the missiles heat up from friction. Perhaps it will be possible to use the S6M4 with IR missiles as anti-missiles.
Still an outstanding bug report for the AIm-9Ms to get a much increased lock range.
If EFT’s end up in ukraine with extra air to air loads, Gaijins gonna hit us with “you arent allowed to provide pictures of an active war”, which has gotten quite a few of my posts removed already…
Sounds about right.
I think my missile load on the German EFT will depend on if the IRIS-T can be used as hard-kill APS alongside the DASS in-game or not. If it can’t, I’m most likely running 6M+2S, if they can, most likely running 6S+4M.
Granted thats if CAPTOR-M even becomes a viable radar in sim some day.
Our only hope is Turkey have a demonstrator with double meteor pylons.
Similar to Indian Rafales.
while gaijin themselves adding bomb from 2023(or maybe 2022)… used only in one place
Somehow I forgot that the Su-30 can also carry a lot of R-73s for the same purposes…
Where is my Su-24 with Stormshadow? :D Oh wait. There is no TT for this Su-24 yet…
Oh its fine if they are russian/pro-russian pictures of the war in ukraine, ive been able to post those, as have others. What generally isnt fine seems to be ukrainian/pro-ukrainian stuff, like posting an in-cockpit pic of a ukrainian M2K shooting down a cruise missile
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Its because they are marketing lies :P
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The IRIS-T should be able to do so, and to my understanding can be slaved to intercept threats via DASS. Its ability to be used as self protection for the aircraft from hostile AAM/SAM is stated explicitly pretty much all over.
As for other missiles ability to do so, I have seen tactics manuals for tornados stating firing off a 9L can be used as a last resort against a hostile missile iirc, but afaik none of the other IRAAM’s in use explicitly state aircraft self protection via hostile missile interception to be a feature or expected role for the missile.
On the flip side, it also gives the IRIS-T a niche over the ASRAAM/MICA, which both are faster and longer ranged.
I’m more talking about manual missile launch for interception.
It still works on live, but only if the missile’s engine is still running. I don’t know if there was a missile heating feature on Dev, so I’ll have to test it on live.
If the missile heats up enough to be targeted by a thermal missile at least at half the distance at which the guidance works with the engine running, then it will be a good tool.
is the ASRAAM similar to IRIS-T/Aim9x?
MICA EM maybe?
But faster and of course with an IIR Seeker
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I would rather emphasize that ASRAAM has MUCH less resistance than MIСА. Because MIСА has very aggressive fins, while ASRAAM has almost none.
And their engines, in my opinion, are similar in energy.
So is the ASRAAM less maneuverable?
No, it is quite maneuverable, because 100% of its aerodynamics (not counting the supporting fuselage) are rotary rudders. That is, as I think, it can simply turn itself in the flow as if it had a thrust vector and simply push itself into a turn using the brute force of the engine.
There is information on the Internet that the declared maximum overload of ASRAAM is 50g. For example, there is the A-Darter missile. It is made according to a similar aero scheme, but it has a thrust vector. And here it reaches 100g of overload.