No. IRL they didnt even use Skyflash to my knowledge as they lost the ability to guide them very early on in development, the main BVR missile of the Gripen is AMRAAM
swedish designation of the aim9m just like the other missiles have diff names yet are exactly the same thing
@Smin1080p Sorry for pinging with a relatively irrelevant question, but:
Swedish engineers made clever use of the Gripen’s canards by allowing them to be rotated nearly 90° to act as additional air brakes after touchdown.
How has the dev team made this function in-game in terms of which keybinds to activate it? Landing flaps or airbrake? Fair enough, there is no need for it in warthunder but since it is mentioned in the devs.
Sweden never used the AIM-9M, so they couldn’t have given it a different designation.
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wooooo SAAF JAS39C
i’d assume when you touch down the airfield and you want to break it goes 90 degrees, just like chutes work without a keybind and are automatic i guess
there is some creative liberties being taken with the gripens armament currently to make sure they can compete.
The Devs decided to give it a domestic based name. It was an intentional decision.
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Name, not the missile itself.
Very interesting.
Tho the SAAF never used the AIM9 on their planes, is there any plans if they will get V3B and V3C ?
Idk if you have been asked this before but will the AMX attacker be appearing next update or will it only appear after New Year?
Possibly neither.
AIM-9 is integrated on the C variant. So these missiles were issued.
Domestic missile options for South Africa spesifcally are too advanced for the game currently.
AFAIK South African missiles are way ahead
Besides the early Swedish JAS39A production variant, an export modification of this aircraft operated by the South African air force, designated JAS39C,
but JAS39C is A upgraded, not export variant
Fair I guess, though thats why I think the Gripen was a bit of an odd choice over other vehicles, would have made more sense down the road as more advanced missiles come into the game.
I assume in the future when missiles like IRIS-T etc are added, the SAAF Gripen will get them then?
Apparently in swedish service, RB74 is the designation for both the AIM9L and the AIM9M
It’s reffering to the fact it’s the South African modification. Not that the C variant itself is an “export” spesific model.
Not really from AIM9B, V3A (Magic 1 ), V3B (magic 2), V3C (Magic 2 with updated Seeker), V3S (Python 3 ) is already in game.