Next Major Update - "Eagle's Shadow" Rumour Roundup & Discussion (Part 2)

I can see the resemblance, but the one in the trailer seems way too thick and the nose doesn’t match

Yeah, other than the straight strakes, the R-37 looks similar.

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Of course, it might just be a fake weapon to fill the scene

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The extremely generic look and the silver metallic finish makes me think that it has to be Soviet

its a stroke-3 ref i assume, yk f16 avoiding a SAM and the quote he says before looking at it

I think i might have found it

NASA aerodynamic test

PDF page 44/45

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what exactly are we looking at on that page

The picture. That looks like the same missile, but to scale

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I think that’s exactly what it is

Good shout

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yea but what is it, looks like it’ll belong to the SM family

I dont know. It might just purely be test model, testing the wing configuration

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any thoughts?
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Speculated about this on discord and the best fit was a BUK M1 missile, we speculated ALCM or R-37M/33 but neither fit

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Pretty close also

Interesting

Kh-58 also has some resemblance, but I’m thinking @f111_a is probably right and that thing in the video isn’t a real weapon

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Yep probably the most reasonable hypothesis, still strange given gaijin’s typical high attention to detail in these teasers

One final guess is the 9M38M1 from a naval mounted SAM
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I just really dont think its a fake missile, like if it were they couldve used any number of weapons that are currently in the game

its got the body of that type of missile but most of them are too long and not chunky enough imo

That looks like the closest we’ve got so far, but it seems too long