Haha imagine cooking a good pizza on your bayside house and get nuked by a hungry heat-seeking 750kg bomb
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+65C +/-15C seems to say it’s in the range of 50-80C over the surroundings. I don’t know exactly how hot a tank’s engine deck can get.
EDIT:
Is this part about the GCS being able to target this truck also real or just hypothetical?
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That part was used as a example of their Mobile ballistic launcher as for example.
Something that there was info of to base an assumption off.
If it can track mobile ballistic missile launchers which produce this levels of heat/emission, a tank with a more higher rate of fuel consumption and emissions should be easier to track.
albeit as long it isn’t clustered among other similar emitting heatsources.
So the GCS-1 was actually tested against that truck and successfully tracked it?
I think this is a bit of a part A part B where it just needs to get close enough a missile launcher cant take any punishment so if it lands just close enough a small chunk of metal can break the missile. This is not a drone video of a launcher getting nuked its do the minimum to get maximum gain.
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Talking about heat seeking bombs I hope we get stuff like the WW2 Ke-Go bombs
These would get a lot of use in Naval blasting ships and the like. Yes you would likely not get a kill but with engine room explosions you can do damage. You also might survive more as a plane.
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It would be huge if they actually tested a real GCS against a real truck and got a good result out of it, could be used to further widespread knowledge of this bomb
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If you think the Russians and Americans are quiet on there tests I find the Japanese are even more quiet. The language issue is not helping.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzObIRbhYOg can anyone identify the plethora of tank images shown in this video? because i have never seem a lot of these models or variants before especially the ka-chis
They aré not really quiet on the contrary they do one of the most extensive tests out there but dont like to share all info and when they do its hard to access, just find It under atla research page
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Could add the ka-to to fill the ho-ris br hole?
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not really would be lower BR
ka-to if added would be sort of like LG you can nuke everyone and anyone with a pistol can nuke you.
Funny enough Ho-Ri is in enlisted.
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Felt like sketching one of the aircraft that’s in the story I have been writing since 2012,
This time it’s the Japanese Expeditionary Forces F-1A Kai.
F-1A Kai
Spoiler
One of the frontline combat aircraft of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces.
The F-1A Kai is a upgraded variant of the Mitsubishi F-1 “Supersonic Reisen”
This aircraft has been modernised to keep up with the ever changing battlefield and to keep the Expeditionary forces up to date.
In response to the 1985 border crisis with the People’s Republic of China, it became apparent that the F-1 and the T-2 would not survive long in a prolonged engagement with any near peer to peer opposition forces.
Using the technology for the FS-X program, along with defensive sensor technology that were tested on the F-2A. They modernised this aircraft to a point it could hold its own against any fourth and even fifth generation aircraft.
This aircraft is from the novel’s I’ve written and is an aircraft Saryn has encountered a couple times during her missions.
Specifications F-1A Kai
General characteristics
Crew: 1
Length: 17,86 m (58 ft 7 in)
Wingspan: 7,88 m (25 ft 10 in)
Height: 4,48 m (14 ft 8 in)
Wing area: 21,2 m2 (228 sq ft)
Empty weight: 6.358 kg (14,017 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 15.476 kg (34.118,73 lb)
Powerplant: 2 × Ishikawa-Harima TF40-801D afterburning turbofan engines, 27,5 kN (6.182 lbf) thrust each dry, 40,2 kN (9.037 lbf) with afterburner
Performance
Maximum speed: 2.152 km/h (1.337 mph, 1161 kn) at 11,000 m (36,000 ft) (in intercept loadout)
Combat range: 785 km (487 mi, 423 nmi) High-Low-High profile with two AAM-5 missiles, Four AAM-4B missilesand two 830 L (220 US gal; 180 imp gal) drop tank
Ferry range: 2,870 km (1,780 mi, 1,550 nmi) (max external fuel)
Service ceiling: 15,240 m (50,000 ft)
Time to altitude: 11,000 m (36,000 ft) in 1 minute and 48 seconds with Intercept loadout.
Wing loading: 645 kg/m2 (132 lb/sq ft)
Armament F-1A Kai
Guns: 1× 20 mm (0.787 in) JM61A1 Vulcan 6-barreled Gatling cannon
Hardpoints: Four underwing and two wingtip missile rails with a capacity of 6,000 lb (2,700 kg) of ordnance
Bombs:
Unguided:
Mk-82 500 lb,
JM117 750 lb,
Guided:
GCS-1 Type I (750 lb)IR,
GCS-1 Type II (500 lb)IR,
(X)GCS-2 (2000 lb, GNSS+IOG, IR+IOG+GNSS), Laser+IOG+GNSS,
GBU-12 Paveway II Laser+IOG,
GBU-24 Paveway III Laser+IOG.
Post MLU
GBU-31/62 (L)JDAM 500lb bombs
Rockets:
Unguided:
Mk.32 Zuni ATAP rockets on RL-4 launchers
Guided (post mlu)
APKWS II
Air to surface missiles:
ASM-1 (ARH+IOG)
ASM-2 (IR+IOG)
ASM-2B (IR+IOG+GNSS)
Air to air missiles:
Medium range:
AIM-7F Sparrow (SARH)
Post MLU
AAM-4(B) (ARH+IOG+DL)
Short range:
AIM-9P-3 Sidewinder
AIM-9L Sidewinder
AAM-3
AAM-5
Avionics:
Mitsubishi Electric J/APG-1V1 AESA radar system
Mitsubishi Electric J/ASQ-1 RWR system
PIRATE IRST sensor
Unisys/IBM CP-1075-AYK FCS
Raytheon AN/ARC-164 Have Quick UHF transceiver
NEC V/UHF transceiver
Hitachi Kokusai Electric HF transceiver
Tokyo Radio System/BAE AIFF
Japan Aviation Electronics ring laser IRS
Toshiba VOR/ILS
Rockwell Collins TACAN
Mitsubishi Electric mission computer
Toshiba digital map display system
Mitsubishi Electric integrated EW system.
Targeting pods:
LANTIRN (Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night) Laser targeting pod
J/AAQ-2 FLIR / IRST pod
Countermeasures:
J/ALE-47 Countermeasure dispenser
J/ALE-37 Countermeasure dispenser ECA units (Expandable Chaff Adapter on the launch rails.)
Avionics F-1 Kai JMLU (2009)
Mitsubishi Electric J/APG-2V1 AESA radar system
Mitsubishi Electric J/ASQ-2 RWR system
PIRATE IRST sensor
Raytheon AN/ARC-164 Have Quick UHF transceiver
NEC V/UHF transceiver
Hitachi Kokusai Electric HF transceiver
Tokyo Radio System/BAE AIFF
Japan Aviation Electronics/Honeywell digital AFCS
Japan Aviation Electronics ring laser IRS
Toshiba VOR/ILS
Rockwell Collins TACAN
Mitsubishi Electric mission computer
Mitsubishi MDS mission planning system
Toshiba digital map display system
Mitsubishi Electric integrated EW system.
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Pls the rocket pod gets the face in game for the lols
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Update: perhaps having our dear leader BVVD taking up like half the extra space was not the wisest decision
BUT IT WORKS!
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Put him under ho-ri hatch
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I really dont get why Gaijin cares, there is literally ZERO information on KA-88A, LS-6 (IR), HOSBO and Kh-38MT IR-seeker capabilities yet they just gave them generic AGM-65D based seeker and called it a day…
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— Some Gunsight Technician
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It’s very selective, I agree.
I also considered making a pointing soyjack as the sight. Maybe I will do that for Ki-44-II Otsu…
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