Panavia Tornado (UK versions) - Technical data and discussion

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2074

Yeah not fun. This patch has just killed aircraft like the F3 that rely on fox 1 jousting to get kills.

To be fair the Mig 23 is literally the bane of your existence in an F3. Faster, infinitely more manoeuvrable and R24s are still lethal.

@Gunjob I understand the devs work hard to make this game despite what people say but the tornado has held title of worst FM amongst top tier for a year now. Is the slat change actually happening or is it just wishful thinking at this point?

Is there also any hard data on the supersonic acceleration of the F3? Seems like nothing has been made clear on what’s actually going on there.

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2075

Was actually thinking this myself. I think there are bug reports waiting to be submitted regarding the FM, but no point sending them before. If its never gunna happen then it would be good for the devs to state so, so that bug reports can resume.

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2076

Had a thought. If the Tornado F3 ever gets it’s missing cockpit radar symbology. Is the Tornado GR1 also missing some as well for when it locks onto a target with its “radar”?

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2077

GR1 is missing an entire air search radar mode but hey-ho. Doubt we’ll see any fixes for a long time at this rate. Would be nice to actually have an instantaneous turn rate though.

2078

I know the radar is 99% missing, but thought that was all to do with the GMR. Got any detailed info/sources on the missing air-to-air radar functionality for it?

2079

Not a British Tornado, or even an ADV; but any way we could use this as reference to squeeze an extra pair of Skyflashes on the Tornado?

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Was done as part of development of the launcher for Eurofighter Typhoon AFAIK

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2080

Yea, but how do you guide it?

2081

Is that basically sticking a Skyflash where the fuel tanks are?

2082

I’d like to be able to dodge an Aim 54 first.

Before we go using amraams as unguided rockets on IDS.

2083

That is all sorts of cursed

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2084

My guy, you have a problem dodging 54? That is your biggest issue? Im tiered of having a turn raidus of a JUPITER.

2085

Yep, it checks out. British style.

2086

Well it’s an IDS for starters, so no CW illuminator in the radar. But I assume you’re talking about doing it on the F.3. I think the biggest problem there would be whether the aircraft is wired to sent the information that the missiles needs pre-launch to those pylons. I would suspect not.

2087

Yep
Assuming there’s enough clearance and weight was okay, could have also allowed for them (or more likely AMRAAM) on the stub pylon too

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2088

Ah. I see. Thank you both. Time for Skyflash Active then for the Tornado Gr1 :D

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2089

They would fit perfectly together. Sadly i doubt anything like that ever happend, and i doubt anyone ever thought about it, so nah.

2090

I can’t blame Gaijin for that one really. Up until literally yesterday there was literally no information available on it other than it featured on a few sales brochures, but was not cleared for use.

2091

Thought there was an excerpt from the manual that explained it in decent detail?

2092

That was the tracking mode, not search

2093

Hey. Just a heads up, the devs checked out this image and this particular aircraft of WTD-61 is an ECR, not IDS.

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