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:
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
wihtout that aa missile its not worth to be added
Why Italy?!?
It’s still missing a good amount of Hungarian aircraft it would hold off Italy for a very long time at rank 6 also because Italy has a Latin American country as a premium but also I don’t really feel under powered in britian it feels pretty good
Well the AMX was a joint development of the Brazilian and Italian aircraft industry, that’s a completely different situation I find.
The truth is that this Chilean Hawker Hunter would be perfect in Israel due to the issue of the Shafrir II missiles and the link between the 2 countries. Regarding the BR, this should be 9.7 since it has decent air-to-air missiles, quite a few countermeasures and even a RWR
Idk Israel feels too op currently I stomp almost everything most of the time in all my idf jets
I have seen a reasonable argument for Chile to become a sub-TT of Israel. So if that were to happen, then yes, it could. If not. Then the only reasonable placement is Britain as the Hawker Hunter was made by Britian.
We could do with a Hawker Hunter with CMs. Chile, Oman or Singapore variants are the only ones left with that capability I think. With Singapore likely becoming a sub-TT for Japan, the number of options left for Britain is going down.
But I would concur with your BR placement or at least it should be about equal to the Hunter F58. Which I could see going to 10.0, but for now is 9.7
I have a question, is the cover missing on this SNEB rocket launcher or is the launcher like that? because I have seen some photos where the launcher is different, here I left a couple of photos of the launchers that I am talking about in some Chilean Hawker Hunter
This is just an older SNEB launcher without it’s front and rear covers that eject for firing. For reference you can find this 19 rocket launcher on aircraft like the Mystere IVA or even the French Corsair
Yesterday while I was watching a live on YouTube of retired Chilean military personnel, they shared some interesting photos of the Hawker Hunter:
Some photos carrying the Shafrir II and a rather difficult to obtain photo where they carry many SURA P3 rockets, If I’m not mistaken, there are 24.
and a photo where you can see the telemetric radar:
Some excellent quality photos taken in 1989, a detail photo of the Chilean RWR Caiquén II, the insignia of these Chilean Hunters, the Hunter FGA Mk.71 in flight (it can be used to model the fighter in the game) and a static display of armament.
Some other interesting discoveries regarding weapons that I have been discovering by analyzing photos:
A couple of photos of the Chilean Hawker Hunters in weapons display, there are 2 interesting things here, the first are the orange bombs that are closest to the aircraft, these are Italian napalm bombs of the Aerea 559G1 model of 500 lb, these bombs can be found on the G.91 aircraft of the Italian tree, the second interesting thing are the rockets again the closest to the aircraft are of the HVAR model.
In these 3 photos you have to be a little more observant and zoom in on the bombs, the ones seen in the lower right area correspond to general purpose bombs manufactured in Chile by FAMAE, the smallest is a 500 lb Mk 82, nothing special, the largest is more interesting, it is a 1500 lb FAMAE bomb, both bombs are in the Hawker Hunter area and not in the Mirage 50C area so they were part of the Hawker Hunter.
In short, among the armament options we would have to add the Italian napalm bombs, the SURA rockets and the 1500 lb bomb that does not belong to the Mk 80 series but is specific to FAMAE.
Unfortunately weapons being displayed next to aircraft don’t always fully confirm compatibility, so if you could find any photos showing these weapon systems actually equipped by the Hunters that would be great. Regardless thanks for finding all of this stuff, it’s been a very long time since I originally wrote this suggestion and unfortunately I’m not as good at finding sources related to Chilean tech.
On another note, I’m probably gonna give a slight visual overhaul to my original post sometime soon because it currently still uses an older format I originally used in posts during the old forum days.
+1 for all configs
It’s hard to find photos of all the bombs mounted on planes, especially from that time when they were times of war, but here I found a video where a journalist interviews a FACH pilot and they mention napalm bombs, they must be the big ones that are right behind the rockets and as I showed in the photo above the model should be the Italian one, the same bomb was used in the Vampires of Chile and both planes operated in the same era, so it is that model.
