Yup, and I think they’ll be limited to one because it would be a big buff to have both
Its listed in a report by SAAB that it was mounted as part of SAABs goal to have the Gripen be usable with all Nato equipment.
The buyer only needs to choose what weapons they want and engineers will modify the pylon to work with the selected weapons.
who knows we will just have to wait and see what gaijin does with them I guess lol either way looking forward to using ASRAAM and PIRATE
Yeah, thats gunna be a fun combo
Regardless if you have a problem with it ask SAAB the listed ordinance was a guide to show the weapons that had been successfully mounted and could be done to any Gripen.
there are more variants and unadded features
Allat just to get graped but the MICA IR’s, idk about you guys, but I don’t look forward to those IR missiles, especially the MICA.
I still reckon they’ll be limited to LOBL, so range is mitigated by lock range and HOBS limited by gimball limit
I remember someone saying that the AIM-9X would be the only IIR missile with Data link which was funny
What I’m afraid of is another seeker advantage.
Meteors and other BVRAAM on more platforms, yes, give em, but one sided MICA IR doesn’t sound fun.
if that “guess” is to be believed 5th gens look to be coming in the first half of 2026 not really much time to add those “other variants” for most nations the current 14.3 will be their top tier jets with next gen IIR missiles
tbf the issue the rafale will have is close range, things like the R-74M, IRIST and even the 9X will out preform the Mica-IR or at the very least be more agile, so we will just have to see how its all modelled
I doubt much difference in seeker performance between any of the IIRs
I doubted that too with the ARH ones, but eh.
I guess we’ll have to wait and see
It would be weird for Gaijin to not add more variants just for new missiles
I agree, that the typhoons should have a level of uniqueness among them, however it would be annoying having to grind millions upon millions of RP in an entirely different tech tree just to play the same airframe but with a different missile. It would be weird to see a German eft with asraam/British eft with Iris t, but it would be nice to try each other’s missiles.
idk the EFTs will just be given new missiles same with the gripen E i would imagine
the rafale might get a new variant?
China, russia and america are all getting 5th gens so we probably wont see the addition of next gen IIR missiles to any of their pre existing planes
israel and japan im not sure maybe israel will get that greek Rafale, which just leaves japan maybe a new F-2 with next gen missiles.?
I feel like that it’s much more likely that the US will get an F-22 and (if Gaijin is going to add newer missiles in that update) a newer variant of each nations top tier plane with newer missiles.
In a later update they’d add the F-35, Su-57 and J-20.
Overall I’m still skeptical when it comes to newer missiles. If I were you, I’d not hype myself up.
Gripen E isn’t even in game its some eqrly prototype the 2nd made that they are calling the E its not even slightly accurate model wise with all its problems. Guess we’ll get the actual Gripen E later cause apparently the Gripen E is too powerful gotta wait till 5th gen jets for the Gripen E to be Balanced