By the look it can be something similar, can’t tell more ^^
Imo though, Spear 3 is the best looking pocket cruise missle/powered glide bomb there is
Everything about it just looks goooood. Smooth, smooth lines
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It’s the same idea, rocket assisted gbu, buuuut it’s not as good, guidance wise it’s the same kit as on the GBU-xx we have in game already.
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Not a big fan of how abrubt it end on the rear but yep, looks like a baby SCALP/StromShadow haha
SCALP when Gaijin? :p
Isnt that a Brimstone with wings :P
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Hey since you there and you know probably more about Brimstone than me:
How many Brimstone can the Rafale use ? or can it us them, for start?
Because it’s listed on the picture with all the possible weapons, i wonder if it’s an error, or it can but not needed so we don’t really know ?
Somewhat, turbofan engine and wings though, its bigger though
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I honestly have no idea. I assume it would use the same triple mounts everyone else uses. so I’d guess some where in the region of 12.
But whether France actually has Brimstones in its arsenal, you would know better than me
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3 per pilon with a databus and where you can put a double dumb bomb rack already. Iirc india is adopting brimstone so that might be why it was shown
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Ok yep India is a good reason for those Brimstone here, thanks
Ah, I found the reason, France keeps looking at brimstone for a lightweight AGM for the rafale. Keep flip flopping on adopting it or not
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MBDA did nick bits off older projects for spear 3, so that makes sense. It’s actually one of the selling points, as dev costs where lower
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Cool, that’s mean perhaps we gonna have something similar, if not spear 3 itself.
Pehraps the flip flopping about brimstone on Rafale is that they wait to see if we can have something like that in place ^^
SPEAR 3 is supposed to have a new ai powered targeting algorithm, so they might be waiting on that.
I.e. instead of brimstone’s simpler algorithm that basically just ensures that two missiles don’t target the same thing, SPEAR 3 should be able to adapt to AA or losses in the salvo, and adjust time to target for each missile to ensure the salvo strikes simultaneously
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Just adding the ARH missile by itself will be enough and lock on after launch will be enough. It will fix the biggest issue with the Type 81 and that is the ability to attack low flying helicopters and high flying 10km+ orbital CAS (aka actual smart players).
Of course, I’ll take the other improvements too, but this is bare minimum I’d like.
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what do yall think they might add next?
Certainly not a Russian vehicle under the guise of a subnation for an otherwise western nation
They would never do that