i forgot to say using gaijin logic
And that was your downfall
Whats alarm
Anti Radiation missile
Basically a British harm
Quite a cool HARM.
Unlike other HARM like the AGM-88. If the target switches its radar off, its climbs over the last known position, switches its engine off and deploys a parachute and waits for the target to switch its radar on, then is releases the parachute, fires a secondary motor and slams down onto the target
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Should have HARM
I would if I can find an image of it mounted on the airframe
nvm, seems to have integration underway for German typhoons. so for now doesnt operationally have it
Gunna be very hard to find.
Britain retired the ALARM in 2013 and the Tornado GR4 did most of the SEAD role before then. Might find it on the Saudi Typhoon though
You might find a German Typhoon with AGM-88, but again, they use the Tornado IDS for a lot of their SEAD/ECM as well
But I think a bulk of the SEAD is just planned to be done with Spear-3 and guiding them to a location via the RWR
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Based upon this source. The intergration was planned but dropped due to ALARMs retirement from the UK’s service
The ALARM, however, is approaching the end of its service life. Although unconfirmed, a 2013 out of service date has appeared on some documents, and the requirement for integration of the missile on Typhoon has been dropped. - Source
Which does make sense. But FnF Brimstones/Spear-3 with a target area set by the RWR should be more than enough in that regard.
But Saudis use both ALARM and Typhoon so they might intergrate it still which would then be enough for us. But Im happy with running the GR4 or maybe in the future the EF3 for dedicated SEAD
If there is an image of alarm on all pylons, than that means mfrl launcher can be on all pylons, which might be enough proof for the aim120s
Maybe, but good luck finding such an image. But I doubt that would be enough for them. Besides, its easier to find images of Marte ER on those pylons.
Marte er doesn’t require mfrl launcher though
Does ALARM specifically need that though?
Given all the Pylons it can be equipped too on the Tornado IDS
Don’t know
We got the FGR.2 after the F-4C and before the F-4E. It was also brokenly overpowered for months after its addition; the flight performance completely outclassed every other jet in the game and AIM-9Ds (which only the FGR.2 had) were added with basically no drag and stupidly high seeker range so you could easily pick up 10 km+ kills. It basically had BVR missiles at a time when everyone else had AIM-9B or AIM-9Es.
The FGR.2 had plenty of annoying bugs over it’s lifetime. But it was far from obsolete upon addition. It was also the first jet to get a proper Pulse Doppler radar a time when everyone else only had MTI, which gave it a revival as one of the top dogs for a while.
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That one i have to deny.
While there is seperate threads, we pretty much merge them.
And just discuss stuff where the most activity is at the moment.
Generaly they are used universaly
AIM-9D was also undodgeable under 1.5 km from direct rear aspect. Something that would not come until R-60 and more modern missiles, where flares were required and you couldn’t outmanouver missiles anymore.
I played a lot of FGR.2 then, it was the best plane in the game.
Hey that’s my FGR video xD