Also slight off topic but i recently was in greece to the exact airbase they fly out from and gotta say what a beauty of a aircraft this is its sad there retiring next year
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I have some extra photos of it carrying aim-120s but the photos are on my laptop and I am on vacations now, when I return I will upload them , I don’t know anything about German AIM-9s Greece has AIM-9M in the AUP
yea i believe the aim 9 julis have been retired from the hellenic airforce for a while but where def still used by the aup during he 2000s and 2010s
It will be probably the stock fox2
yea irl there basiclly just aim 9J/P with a aim 9L seaker head and thats it
Some extra photos showing the weaponry (mainly the AIM-120, if anyone can tell the difference pls tell me if it’s a -B a -C5 or a -C7)
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None of them look like they have clipped fins, so that makes them AIM-120Bs.
AIM-120B Fins:
AIM-120C Fins:
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tbh it shouldnt even be surprised if the f4e aup can carry the C5/C7 aswell since the radar is fully compatible with the 2 missiles
Yea the Hellenic airforce says/imply that the F-4E AUP can carry all the AMRAAM in service, but I guess this is not enough for Gaijin so I am searching to see if I can find any photo that can prove it
This is the Aim-9P-4 or Aim-9P-5 pictured here.
As for the conversation on the Aim-120 variant, it’s up to gaijin. Compatibility seems to be present, but the lack of proof it ever used anything besides the B variant could be enough for gaijin to only give it that missile. It will likely end up being a counterpart to its German brother ingame.
oyea i did small research and only spain ever had the aim 9 julis
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AIM-9P-4 regular AIM-9Ps don’t have an all-aspect seeker
aim 9 julis is a special convertion kit for the aim 9J/N/P to add the aim 9L seeker head and it basiclly only got exported to spain so yea aim 9 julis is basiclly the same as the p-4 but also with that it can be done on the aim 9J which is a slight worse model then the P which makes it a different missile from the p-4/5
Greece only uses ΑΙΜ-9 L/I, L/I-1 and AIM-9M for the PI 2000 maybe is it one of them and not an Julius or a -P
So i did some research and greece only had the aim 9P-1/2 and yea def in the 2000s they still prob had a few for the f4e before they switched over fully to the aim 9M and the missile in the image is def a 9P bc of the frontal canards which gives it away bc aim 9L/M use pointy canarads but the aim 9P is more blocky
It’s not, none of those missiles are pictured there. It has the body of the Aim-9J/P series and the easily identifiable Aim-9L/M seeker. The only thing this missile can be is the Aim-9P-4/5.
Although you may not have seen documented proof of this usage, this is visual evidence of it. If it wasn’t acquired earlier on, this could be a somewhat newer addition to the HAF arsenal. Some Air Force’s do acquire older yet capable missiles such as these as they are great stockpiles to make use of for training purposes.
Maybe they are training missiles or something like that?
very +1 for greek subtree!
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They’re most practical use, yes. If you can get me a more clear close up picture of the missile being used by them, I could determine if it’s inert. Slightly hard to tell if that’s a blue band from the photo you sent.