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I’m sorry for being dumb but what does TMC mean
Does this mean it is from A-J band coverage?
A-I, I ends at 10Ghz
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Having the TGP there feels so… wrong
its a SPEAR-3
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The orange thing is SPEAR 3? That’s even worse, why is it single mounted. Cheers for the picture
Because it was the first one built for an initial firing trial carried out in 2016.
More extensive trials were supposed to have taken place last year but there have been no further images published since the 2016 launch.
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Thanks for the info, btw when i say worse, i mean more cursed, i dont think ive ever seen a brimstone thats not triple racked.
Eurofighter’s RWR actually goes up to K-band (the post is wrong)
ah, i was just going off of the frequency range provided there lol
done
As I said before the D-Day camo goes hard.
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Is it known if the UK EF’s had IRIS-T on them? Because I found this image of the Italian EF carrying ASRAAM’s, which also is capable of carrying IRIS-T ofc
I think this might be one with IRIS-T. Not sure, could be some sorta flight data recording pod.
Nevermind, it doesn’t have the strakes that the IRIS-T does.
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Yep, that’s some sort of ACMI pod.
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As far as I am aware. (And I could be wrong)
Aim-9, IRIS-T and ASRAAM are all designed to be inter-changeable. So yes there is probably nothing stopping it.
But Britain uses ASRAAM on its aircraft. So the default would be ASRAAM
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My guess is that it’s at least partially due to marketing.
Germany didn’t like its lack of TVC the US didn’t like that and they deemed the motor “too volatile” for the ammunition handling systems on US carriers even when P3I was put forward fixing the lack of TVC.
To then have ASRAAM’s “better” (as it achieved on all the metrics the US and Germany wanted) on an RAF plane wouldve been bad for PR.
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