sm2 IRL were never fitted with al-41’s. it should be a clone of the SM we currently have with an improved radar unless they make another Frankenstein :)
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It was fitted with AL-41
When?
2023 with this image.
Here’s a image of a airframe with the AL-41F-1S
https://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12476398@egNews
it was planned to have one. no serial sm2 fitted with al-41 currently exists
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Well you can’t really tell can you
Yes but it’s the supposed airframe with it installed, though I do believe it was only installed on a few aircraft. Flight tests go back as early as 2020 and deliveries starting in 2022.
In fact, KTRV has consistently promoted the existence of the Kh-38MTE missile. Brochures for this missile were distributed at the 2024 Zhuhai Airshow, as shown below.
The Kh-38MTE was also mentioned at the Army-2024 exhibition. Theoretically, as long as you have sufficient funds, you can personally contact the general manager of KTRV to purchase this missile—and it is believed they will not turn down the request (provided the order quantity is large enough).
Probably depends. If it’s armed I’d say it’s likely, similar to how the Eurofighter is treated. If not we’d probably just see the service variants for each nation (if they are even different).
In China, Close Air Support (CAS) missions are carried out by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) rather than fixed-wing aircraft.
I hope we can see Chinese domestic CAS weapons alongside maybe a Su-30MK2 in the techtree with some better armament, maybe even with Kh-38.
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I mean, so was the Typhoon ATGM, doesn’t mean it actually has been made.
My apologies, I may not have made my point clear—but the Kh-38MTE does indeed exist. (Would KTRV publicly sell a missile they don’t actually have? Obviously not.)
The problem is that the Kh-38MTE has little practical utility in real-world scenarios. Instead, Russia opted to procure 150 Kh-38ML missiles in 2024.
Its about time time France got it via the BeneLux. Should be hard asking for it since FOUR NEW CVRT got found so now is a better time than ever
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You can sell stuff you don’t yet have made or even finished developing, that’s done all the time, especially in the defence sector. You don’t want to spend millions if not billions to develop, design and set up a production line for a product you don’t have a buyer for yet.
There was a 8.5k+ post thread about the very dubious evidence surrounding the KH-38MTs existence, no conclusive evidence for it’s existence was found there.
Tho I think we should stop here, don’t want to reiterate that whole topic here (and I don’t think the mods want us to)
“the complications faced by the Ajax platform have now been solved.”
Spoiler alert. Sadly in the time since this blog was written, they have now not been ))
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Hey @Smin1080p_WT will the be any improvement cas for the upcoming eurofighters or is that something we wait should for the dev blog
So, when will the crew damage and self-disassemble be implemented?