They use a similar motor geometry, and with the shift to early Low / no-smoke formulations, the propellant for the -9M likely actually has reduced performance due to lacking aluminum in the mix, or otherwise needing to include a some sort of chemical masking agent, and as such decreasing the ratio of active to inert parts of the motor formulation.
As the main culprit for the smoke is fine particulates of Aluminum oxide being produced preferentially if the relative humidity & temperature was above some value due to the way it acts as a catalyst that favors certain branches of the net equilibrium reaction(s) that occur chemically to generate the gasses used to propel the missile.
The thing is that until fairly recently Aluminum was the best choice for the oxidizer for solid rocket motors components if maximizing performance above all else was needed, and the better options are practically exotic material that are complicated to produce at the scales needed for mass production in comparison.
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Is there a reason the external cockpit screens don’t… match the internal ones?
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I want my blue and yellow ball
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The MICA NG got a different dual pulse motor compared to the older MICA, but even then the brochure only says “up to 40%” and doesn’t give any indication of actual conditions.
Further down it states “double the interception range” which again doesn’t state conditions and certainly doesn’t match the earlier claim of +40%.
All manufacturers will claim to have the best capability and most of their claims are only from a very select used case in which their product is especially good compared to the competition.
Randomly found an image of PGM 500 being displayed next to a EFT. Idk if this got posted here already
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The same that can be found on UK Tornado GR.1/4
Something half way between a glide bomb and an AGM. Can be Laser, TV or IR guided iirc.
Nice find. Where did you stumble upon that?
This looks like an DA.1 Eurofighter
Edit:
Could it be?
found an Picture of the Dubai air Show 1998
https://images.app.goo.gl/p9YVBtGSqShneBXu6
What are those on the bottom left
Seems to be the Brimstone Pylon, I would say those are Brimstone
Yep, Brimstone
Found it randomly from some document/news paper reporting mostly about Le Bourget 1999, where I was originally looking for something else, but then stumbled upon this
Hey sorry for the question but would it be possible to check and maybe tell people to stop flagging standard posts during a discussion?
Someone in here is flagging comments that do not break rules or contain any offensive parts and yet still get hidden.
How does that system even work? Is it enough for a single player to flag a post?
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Good amount are off-topic from what I can see
Someone flagged a random post of mine in this thread from nearly 18 months ago early tonight. :D
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