They could have put India in the same spot as Canada and Australia or they could have turned India into a tree of its own.
There was no reason to tie them to Britain and both the Bhishma and Bison should have gone to the USSR tree. Their intention with the Bhishma was to give Britain some diversity at top tier, which could have been achieved with a Leopard or an Abrams, but apparently Australias and Canadas ties to Britain are too weak for that.
And even if a Leopard or Abrams never was on the table, they still obviously had to put work into making the Bhishma, so why didn’t they go for the Arjun instead?
Yep I’ve seen those, I exactly where you got those from. I even have one of them saved in my photos for when I explain the Python 4 to some people haha.
Nope, the ALE-40 currently only has the Standard sized, basic 1x1" M206 (30 units per dispenser) flare mounted in the MJU-11 Chaff / Flare Magazine.
It should also have access to the MJU-12 and MJU-17 Magazines (the modern ALE-40 uses a modular buckets design) which would respectively add alternate 1x2" MJU-7 (15 units per dispenser) and 2x2" MJU-10 (6 units per dispenser) Flares.
Further access to later Flare compositions which are more effective against IRCCM seekers and Kinetic (uses off gasses to retain some momentum, resisting spatial IRCCM) or Covert (No Visual report during burn so doesn’t give obvious clues if pre-flaring) variants, for the various sizes.
It’s only going to go against 13.7 if it gets the Aim-9Ms (and a BR of 12.7 ofc, maybe they’ll slap it al 12.3 who knows…). It’s currently 11.7 on the dev server, meaning 12.7 is the max it can face.
Irrelevant. 9Ms would ruin it for air RB, Russians dream of the F-111F having 9Ms so they can easily kill them.
That and AMRAAMs are expensive to spawn in ground RB.
9Ms would also make it 12.x for ground RB as well…
I mean how could they not be. It was overhyped as the best dogfighting missile in the world and that with HMD any western aircraft was no match, and the days of longer dogfights were over the second it was off the rail. (Reality was not exactly like that tho lol)
But leave it to the Israelis to see their enemies get something cool, then make something even cooler.
Like man Israel was so based for this
Thrust Vectoring, wat that? Add more control surfaces instead raahhhhhh!!!
I don’t think so. Don’t think we’ve ever used them.
Found an article mentioning they were fitted to the f18
“This has also been mounted on an RAAFF-18 for form and fit trials.”
But it doesn’t seem like they were ever used. The same article mentions aim9 X was potential consideration and considering we use those now I’m guessing that was the extent of things.
