I would love to see it in the British tree! Since Gaijin said that we will get a better hunter, this would be perfect
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Actually the Hawker Hunter Águila could carry up to 4 Eclipse flare/chaff pods as shown in the following images since they had up to 4 supports for this, it was not common to see them with 4 since in training they only used 1, but the supports are there, which would give a total of 240 charges in total.
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yeah i support it, as long as this means britain players will stop crying over the swedish hunter
Never my friend, never…
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Question is if those hang points were ever used… the few photos that actually show Eclipse pods show only a pair being mounted. This is good to have on this thread either way, thanks.
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Here I found a photo where you can see a Hunter Aguila using two countermeasure dispensers, one on each side of the plane
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Nice find. This actually reminded me that I noticed my count of the CM charges per pod was wrong, it’s clearly 40 charges per Eclipse pod for a total of 80, I fixed it in the post. The practice bomb rack in your photo is also quite interesting.
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The other issue is that the FGA and FR cabins should be the same once modernized to the Aguila standard, so these photos also serve to represent the version of the suggestion
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I already have these exact photos in the suggestion if you look in the Additional photos and media tab
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Hunter with Mk 80 series bombs? Yes, please
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I found a photo of the radar, no idea what model it is but maybe it is the same as the Hunter FGA.9 (AN/APG-30 radar?) since the one from Chile is the export version of that model, I leave the photo here just in case
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I leave a couple of videos about the weapons of the Chilean Hawker Hunters
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Today I found this from the book “Jane’s Avionics 1987-88” where Caiquén II and Eclipse are mentioned, in addition to giving us a detailed description of the electronic warfare systems, it tells us the exact amount of countermeasures that Eclipse uses, it mentions that each launcher has 40 Chaff and 20 flares, it also says that the Hawker Hunter carries 2 eclipse systems which I already demonstrated in the image above, so in total it can carry 120 countermeasures (80 Chaff and 40 flares).
The countermeasure count is 40 per pod, Jan’es may say 60 but we have actual photos of the pods, one of which you have posted, and it’s not that hard to count there are 40 cells and not 60.
fun fact: one chilean hunter was sold to embraer and was used as a chase plane,
she then was sold again in 2018, right now she is in airworthy status and her most recent flight was just a couple days ago!
This isn’t the suggested variant, the aircraft you posted is a Hunter T.72.
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That is actually the Hunter T.72 which is the combat trainer variant of the FGA.71
I know that every Trainer variant of the Hunter is armed with at least one ADEN cannon with some nations having 2 ADEN’s. The T.72 should be able to use most of the secondary ordinances that the FGA.71 uses as well
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I found these photos of the Hawker Hunter FR71A (number 734) from Chile, the photos were taken at the Chilean Aeronautical Museum, in them you can see the modernized cockpit, we can know that this was one of the modernized ones because it is Number 734 that was one of those that was modernized to the Aguila standard, in the photo you can see interesting details:
- View from above where many details can be seen, the Spanish word “Reloj” can be seen on the top right which means clock
- The second photo and the most interesting for me shows the central area in great detail, you can see the Chilean RWR Caiquén II in the right area where the symbol of an airplane and the words “course” and “distance” appear.
- The third photo shows us some details of the left area where the pilot is sitting.
I think these photos would be enough to be able to model the cabin correctly in case this Hawker Hunter from Chile is added since the Aguila modernization standardized all the cabins even though they were slightly different models.
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Some other photos and information that I have been getting these days, the details and image of the Eclipse countermeasures system and a couple of photos of the Hawker Hunter FGA Mk.71 number 727 carrying the Shafrir II missiles:
Eclipse:
Source: Jane’s avionics, 1997-98
Hawker Hunter FGA Mk.71 number 727:
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This would be an amazing premium jet for Italy or just a tech tree for Italy right now it’s best rank 6 and 5 jets are a over tiered yak 23 and a good g91 but 8.7 is just a power creep so there’s never down tiers