Eurofighter Typhoon (UK versions) - Technical data and discussion

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9045

Those pylons were also added before the engines were upgraded making it a mongrel between an SM1 and 2. Ok so is it called the Su-27SM3, or the Su-27SM late model?

Is the Su-30SM able to cary those pylons?
Why does the Chinese J-11B not get the same pylons if they are universal?

It does waste time, it wastes everyones time when other nations are favoured their vehicles can carry more missiles when they should. When certain nations receieve weapon systems that dont even exist in the form they are protrayed while other nations have to fill out reports and do hours of research to have a weapon system kind of function like it should.

9046

Bc that’s it’s closest counterpart & contemporary (besides SPICE 250 ER)

And SPEAR 3 would still be unique to typhoon

9047

Yeah, there were some Chinese glide bombs and UMPK, also Grom 2

Isn’t an exact counterpart too, SPEAR 3 trades it’s better range and speed for less guidance modes and actual numbers than GBU-53

9048

Then where is our GBU-39 or AGM-65 equivalent?

Heck, the FGR4 still doesn’t have a 1000lb GPS+laser JDAM equivalent yet

9049

I am talking about weapons themselves not necessarily the aircraft

Generally they add equivalents with a couple exceptions

9050

The gbu-39 is a weird one, i haven’t seen anyone get a kill with it in GRB, but in ASB it wins games and grinds very efficiently.
It’s also so rare to even see American cas, for every 1 F-15E in GRB there’s 30 Su-34/30/27.
You can get a lot of kills against America in ASB (EF Clears any American jet) but still lose because they can just win objectives/bomb everything with the amount of gbu-39

9051

SM2 is a testbed
which also tested the IRBIS-E and alot of other stuff that was used for the SU-35
so no
it was never even close to being the sm2

J-11b carries the Pl-12 not the r-77 they are two completly different missiels
iirc the J-11BG had dual rails for the Pl-12
or are you trying to tell me that the launch rail for the pheonix can carry amraams

the fab-3000UMPK got added later iirc
not sure if it was storm warning

9052

j-11bg doesnt got dual launch rails for pl-12s, they got dual launch rails for rockets though, howecer, this is really getting off topic

9053

welp then i got lied to

9054

The SPEAR 3 carrier is actually the dual Paveway IV one, with an extra Scorpion ERU installed in the middle, rather than the Brimstone one.
While the carriage arrangement is similar to the Brimstone launcher, it uses a different release mechanism where SPEAR is pneumatically pushed down by the ejectors like a bomb before the turbojet starts. Whereas Brimstone is rail-launched, with the rocket motor igniting before the missile separates from the carrier.

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9055

we already have the carrier with the extra ERU btw
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9056

no it doesnt, the world doesnt need to revolve around the US

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9057

@Gunjob

With Magic II getting another buff. Could you nudge some of the Aim-9M reports like flame’s “push ahead” and “lock range” reports.

Would be good to get some buffs for the 9M

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9058

Checks notes…
Not French…or Russian…

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9059

Did I not mention SPICE 250?

Also not my fault US has fairly close counterpart to SPEAR 3

9060

and my point is the UK can get something without the US getting something as well.

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9061

So you think SPEAR 3 should come with no counterparts?

Let’s not forget cases of the opposite happening, I don’t see you complaining about the F-111C coming with the 111F, or AIM-120 coming to UK, or AIM-9’s, or AGM-65’s, or Shermans, or M10, or Paveway GBU’s, or AH-64, or F6F, or F-4, or F4F

But ask for a counterpart for a very strong weapon and it’s hurr durr UK suffer

9062

This is a uk thread is it not, so maybe going on about america here isnt the best move

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9063

I was talking about stuff in the UK tree but thanks, your proving my point

9064

What so saying “US should get this” is UK now, few hundred years late there

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