ah no worries, I’m expecting them to stay as small calibre flares at least until there’s more decompression and IIR AAMs make their appearance
Ahaha well when IIR AAM’s appear this will be me in the devs DM’s about BOL;
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It’ll probably be about the same. No one gets PIRATE at Tranche 1 standard, and really only gets their AMRAAMs and maybe their respective IR SRAAMs at that point (ASRAAM Blk.1 at best for the Brits, possibly an early version of IRIS-T? Don’t know much about that missile so I’d need second thoughts)
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Going by this thread, F2 does get PIRATE.
I’d also guess it will be Aim-9Ms for us
Germany and Italy probably will get Aim-9Li
The real question is gunna be whether Germany or Italy have CAS on their first Typhoon. We are unlikely to have any
German EF have MAWS too?
Heh, that’s strange, my information from my stint doing bits with RAFAC was that the F.2 did not carry PIRATE, and that only the T.3/FGR.4 could.
By the looks Tranche 1 does not get any CAS capability to speak of
I believe all Typhoons should have this, since all are fitted with Praetorian. The only difference is that UK and Saudi Typhoons have been fitted with LWRs in their service life.
Speaking of variants, I told a bit of a fib earlier, Typhoon Tranche 1 would appear to only get 120Bs for MRAAMs, not 120C-5, which was a later integration at Tranche 2 Blk.10.
Whether or not Gaijin chooses to follow this to the letter is anyone’s guess
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Maybe it wasnt when they entered service, but was by the time they were being upgraded to the FGR4.
about half of the german T1s dont have it. the rest do so it wouldnt make any sense to not give this to them.
UK EFs have LWS though which neither the Italian nor the German ones have
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Give me a bit, because iirc I have some magazines/books of RAF Review from the time Project Centurion was in progress. Might be able to squeeze a bit out of that.
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So use the Stormer HVM vs the Germans and Italians then :P
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You say that like the HVM does not have low emission laser.
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Only if that was modeled in game
Germany is the only nation that tested the AMK kit
Good news i guess
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I assume that Phase One Enhancement B (P1EB) is a FGR.4 area? Either way, confirms the use of HMSS and Litening 3 (Sourced via “The Official RAF Annual Review 2016”, by Key Publishing)
Bad news.
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Well that’ll be in 2028, and “available to all nations” - The Programme | Eurofighter Typhoon (very bottom of the page)
So the more the merrier. I can only wish Italy and Germany would fit an LWR, seeing as, well, the people employing them at the minute are finding them quite effective.
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thats not a given until P4E SD phase is done…
you could make a case for the Spanish one having LWS as it has the correct panels just with placeholders instead of the real sensors.
the rest… well, it remains a modular aircraft and nothing is stopping anyone from equipping german or italian ones with that system.
and in regards to PIRATE: after having talked to some ppl the consensus is that it wont happen for Germany. the sensor is, by now, outdated and you can do most of the same features (IRST, FLIR) with the TPOD.
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