Was mounted to Drakens also. Its an old missile and its very unique. Id love to see weapons like this in warthunder.
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That and the Austrian one with the AIM-9P-5 would be great Draken additions
Didn’t the falcon have some IRCCM properties? Not sure though
I dont remember, sweden had modified falcons amd skyflash but neither are present in game.
Would love falcons though.
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Thats if it doesn’t go to Germany.
Found Jadens old post in my bookmarks. He knows way more about the unique missiles than i do.
Also sorry bout the ping Jaden
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Pretty sure every IR missile that’s newer than the AIM-9B had some IRCCM properties. They didn’t just wait until the AIM-9M, Magic II, R-73, etc to work on ways to counter flares lol
Is this a IR missile or radar?
IR, Rb73 iirc is the modified and better skyflash. Rb72 is IR
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What’s the range of this missile? 10km?
Sorry again for the ping Jaden.
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Pretty sure Rb.73 is what the Swedes would called the Skyflash Mk 2 (or Active Skyflash)
You’d have to ask Jaden idk off the top of my head.
Well, if Wikipedia is to be trusted here (and since I have no other sources I’ll have to trust it for the time being) the Rb.73 was a competing development for a Skyflash follow-up. It apparently wasn’t a Skyflash at all, but rather an entirely new wingless ramjet missile.
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Sounds like something Jaden may have said so i think that might be correct
Tfw CF105 and TSR2
On another note i suppose these machines cancelled due to politics instead of design flaws should get another run in war thunder
YF-23 please
The article doesn’t list any sources, but it does match stuff that I read over on secret projects
Rb.73 seems to have been the basis for the Meteor missile
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So they were 14.0 aircraft that got to stomp around at a lower BR for a while.
They made 21 functional missiles and did test fires
It would be no different than adding a prototype ground vehicle.