Yeah, I believe the seekers on the AIM-9X and IRIS-T came from the ASRAAM program originally or at least they all use the same basic seeker, both the US and Germany pulled out because of the cold war ending basically, then used a lot of what was learned making the ASRAAM to build their own missiles, the AIM-132 designation is a holdover from US involvement but they didn’t want the missile, despite developing their own separately like 10 years later. The whole thing is weird, and the ASRAAM as the name suggests was meant to complement the AMRAAM, it’s a shame it didn’t work out like that, but tbh I’m not sure the US could cope with using a none US made weapon, so it was probably doomed from the start
Anyways, ignoring the tangent, what I was trying to say was that the AIM-9X, ASRAAM, and IRIS-T are all effectively equivalents, the ASSRAM has the range, the IRIS-T pulls insanely hard, and the 9X is somewhere in between, all with effectively the same seeker head
Yeah, what I mean is that the ASRAAM pioneered the use of that kind of seeker in IR missiles, it was selected for the ASRAAM way before the 9X program started and definitely inspired its use in the IRIS-T.
Also quite funny is that the 9X was originally a competition between Hughes and Raytheon but Raytheon bought Hughes defense division a year after Hughes won the contract
well, they do generally have pretty good stuff. i have noticed that the main selling point of some raytheon stuff is it being “affordable” and good, seems to be the place they occupy as a defence contractor
Sausage rolls are king, unfortunately where I work is like the only town in the whole of the North of England that doesn’t have a Greggs or even a Pound Bakery, and it is a fact that I curse almost every day, there’s one place that does sausage rolls and they cost £2.40 each, daylight robbery is what I call that
Chinese New Year is not an ordinary lunar calendar, but a unique combination of yin and yang calendar created in ancient China. It is based on the cycle of lunar phase changes, with each lunar phase change lasting for one month, taking into account the length of the solar tropical year as one year, and adding 24 solar terms and setting leap months to make the average calendar year compatible with the tropical year. The fusion of the lunar calendar and the solar calendar has formed a yin-yang combined calendar, which was called the summer calendar in ancient times due to the use of “Xia Zheng”. It is now called the lunar calendar. So in order to distinguish, it should be called Chinese Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year
@Smin1080p_WT Sorry for ping , is there any information regarding the gripen C perhaps getting a buff now that the EF-2000 and Rafale are out? Is it possible to shine some light on some of the issues submitted that have not progressed(at least publicly) , like its radar, missing armament and such? Thank you in advanced!
but operated by a USAF squadron and most likely also flown by US instructor pilots, also, part of a series of agreements between the US and RSAF for training and weapons (google Peace Carvin 1,2,3,4, and 5)