I’d imagine it can for sure, but you don’t need an escape vector with IR, either you beat it with flares or you don’t. That’s modern IIR combat.
Unless it provided the necessary vectors for getting BOL into the optimal place to block an IIR missile.
I wonder, are you still searching for sources or just havent got the time to write it yet?
I don’t think that’s true in all scenarios
You could defeat longer range shots kinematically …
So, is striker 2 used operationally or just planned?
December 2024:
BAE Systems is already developing Striker II under a £40 million contract announced by the UK Ministry of Defence in September 2023 which will see the helmet undergo flight trials in the coming months. The latest investment will fund the next stage of development, ensuring the helmet achieves a production-ready standard. - Source
So, Id guess not in service yet, but has either undergone flight trials or is about to.
Shouldnt have any intergration issues with older aircraft, especially current Striker I users like the Typhoon
Striker II has been specifically designed to allow for easy integration across a wide range of platforms. It’s compatible with aircraft that have analog display drive electronics, via a low latency converter, and has a digital interface for aircraft with digital display drives. Its comprehensive list of features work together seamlessly to provide pilots with unmatched awareness. Most importantly, the information is displayed in an intuitive way, allowing for a natural response in what can be the most challenging and unnatural of environments.
BAE Systems can provide complete HMD System solution using the Striker II, or work with customers to integrate Striker II into existing aircraft architectures on an Open Architecture basis to give customers the freedom and ability to develop their own symbology/display formats, and provide optimized aircraft mounted hardware solutions. - Source
You can see what it looks like in this:
Edit: According the BBC, it has a planned finished development date of 2027
The firm aims to finish development in 2027, with production starting soon after. - Source
and according to this tweet from January 28th, trials have started, including night flights
https://x.com/BAESystemsplc/status/1884315507727196508
Which should be more than enough to get it added to in-game.
6 Likes
8 Likes
Will we get a typhoon which can carry more missiles? Does uk have that in real life? Or is it stuck with 6 ARH?
Most EFT’s are probably capable of more than 6. But we’ll probably never know unless the need to field more than 6 arises
2 Likes
Yeah, What Tonedbasil said.
Primary/Secondary-ish sources suggest that the inner most wing pylons can carry BVRAAMs but it just appears to have never been done (publicly) IRL and what is needed is pictures or better yet a video of BVRAAMs equipped to thsoe pylons.
But ASRAAM and IRIS-T would likely be better in the short term than 2 extra Aim-120Bs
2 Likes
Different way of getting an object to do a thing basically.
Simplest/best example I’ve found explaining it is this one from a reddit post:
Spoiler
Sorry for the late reply
Only place SPEAR would actually be useful would be air sim, and even then, the small payload likely means it could be very hit or miss.
Theoretically though, it would provide a challenger to the SDB-1’s in battlefield clearing, which would be interesting.
I’d love to see an EFT using the quad racks for SPEAR though. The triple racks are nice, and likely more than enough for IRL roles, but in WT, the triple racks means the EFT needs to carry the full 6 stations to clear a battlefield iirc, which cuts down your already meager ARH load from 6x down to 4x, and your total AAM count from 8-10 down to 6.
Im hoping for them in a purely GPS-Only GBU-39 style weapon where they should be fine in most gamemodes, if nothing else as decoys.
Ah thats sad… i would love to have 4 more aim 120…
Well, you can pick up to 6…
I know? Haha
When the iris t comes. Will it be able to be on a dual rack like the sim 9m?
