Expanding The F/A-18C Armaments

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Yep, you’re right I just looked into it, whoops.

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another point to the strike eagle

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i thought same as you too, before looking into JDAM-ER more

GBU-53 and JSOW should have glide bomb troubles completely covered though

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To be honest, fair. I think the JSOW looks cool but the juice isn’t worth the squeeze for putting it on F-15E ingame.

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wdym? F-15E is known to be capable of carrying them

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GBU-53 will be terrifying. Whole different beast than JSOW, when you can carry 20 of em. I wonder how long it’ll be and if we’ll get the cool less capable stuff first or if they’ll jump the shark again

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Thank you.

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doesnt JSOW-B have 24 IIR guided submunitions each?

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They don’t use the 1000lb variant (also a wing kit for the 1000lb class Mk.80 series compatible warheads doesn’t exist only for the 500 & 2000lb options).

Also as we don’t know what the specific configuration the Quickstrike-ER Air Launched Mine (GBU-62(V)1/B & -64(V)1/B) actually takes. As far as is currently known the designation of the regular configuration of the JDAM-ER is unknown, though was provided to Ukraine via Presidential Drawdown, so does theoretically exist in inventory as a variant.

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Terrifying, and relies on a mechanic hitherto unseen and one of the Big Ones they may never implement. Clusters and submunitions in general are on the level of Stealth or EW etc. I guess the closest ingame is starstreak? any better examples of submunitions? APFSDS?

The game engine can simulate it, but it may be a lag generator, and also it’s just a terrifying capability I don’t currently see them ever putting in GRB.

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wouldnt it just be

  1. have JSOW-B glide to GPS point
  2. spawn in a bunch of the submunitions from the JSOW-B hitbox
  3. add some effects and maybe even pretty animations
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Yes, but self targeting submunitions. It’s like telling 24 brimstones to hit a 10 digit grid and kill everything within. It’d be like adding HIMARS/M270 with ATACMS

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Isn’t there some sort of flechette rockets on one of the SEPCAT-Jaguars?

Yes, it’s available on the French Jaguars and the Super Entard

https://old-wiki.warthunder.com/TBA_Multi-Dart_100_AB

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would be very silly funny.

if there is proof F-15E could use the JSOW double racks, would be even better.

imagine 4x JSOW B, 20x GBU-53, 4x AMRAAM loadout

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THERE’S A HOLE IN YOUR LEFT SPAWN (50% of the enemy team is gone)

anywho, GN fellas. 'luv hornet, 'ate unfinished wt planes, simple as

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I’ve got a source claiming that the F-14B(U) & -14D were JSOW compatible. But no proof that it went beyond software integration, which I don’t think it did.

The final step included incorporation of a new senes of advanced weapons such as Joint
Standoff Weapon (JSOW) and Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) Again, the Navy
determined the Grumman proposal to be too expensive as a whole and restructured its F14 upgrade program to include only portions of the program, which they called Block I

In support of air-to-ground attack missions, the F-14D can employ unguided and
guided munitions Unguided weapons include Mk-80 series general-purpose bombs,
cluster munitions, mines, and airbome and Marine flares. Guided weapons include laser-guided bombs (LGB), and recently cleared MIL-STD-I760 interface class weapons,
including GBU-24E/B, JDAM and JSOW.

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Well what exactly do you think 15x CBU-105s (each contains ten BLU-108, which each ejects four skeets, so 40 submunitions per clusterbomb; so 600 EFPs per flyout) would do?

As an aside the Skeet’s geometry is similar to that of one TOW-2Bs dual warheads so expected penetration is approximately 95~110mm RHAe (in game uses flat 100mm). It’s also similar to the warhead in the 120mm XM943 STAFF Shell.

CBU-97

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AGM-84E SLAM but without the S part

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From the dev update today: dual mode GBU-24 was added to the F/A-18C Late, replacing the older GBU-24/B. According to datamines it should be the GBU-24E/B, so same warhead as the GBU-27, unlike the currently copy pasted EGBU-24B from the Tornado GR.4. First US aircraft to receive a DMLGB as of now as well, so that’s cool, took a little while though…

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Additionally, seems that according to the datamines, a SEAD mode might be pretty close, some bomb targets have been added, additionally to the RWR changes and SAM assets from earlier datamines. I imagine that SLAM and CBUs/JSOW-A/B might make their debut there first. It would be the only place where they could be in an unrestricted implementation I imagine.

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The AGM-65s are already the KH-38 equivalent missile as well for the foreseeable future.

Booster Performance

Force Exerted:

  • KH-38MT: The booster exerts a force of 57,500 N.
  • AGM-65D: The booster exerts a force of 44,497 N.

Burn Time:

  • KH-38MT: The booster burns for 2 seconds.
  • AGM-65D: The booster burns for 0.5 seconds.

Raw Acceleration at Ignition:

  • KH-38MT: 110.58 m/s².
  • AGM-65D: 196.2 m/s².

Specific Impulse:

  • KH-38MT: 234.45 seconds.
  • AGM-65D: 184.61 seconds.

ΔV of Booster:

  • KH-38MT: 232.52 m/s.
  • AGM-65D: 100.86 m/s.

Sustainer Performance

Force Exerted:

  • KH-38MT: 25,875 N.
  • AGM-65D: 8,899 N.

Burn Time:

  • KH-38MT: 8 seconds.
  • AGM-65D: 3.5 seconds.

Specific Impulse:

  • KH-38MT: 175.84 seconds.
  • AGM-65D: 184.62 seconds.

ΔV of Sustainer:

  • KH-38MT: 508.53 m/s.
  • AGM-65D: 151.36 m/s.

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