Jets with BRs as high as Tornado need to start with some kind of Guided weapon as stock even just 2 GBUs. You just cannot play it, the airframe is terrible when stock, the standard bombs are impossible to use when you are forced to face top tier SAMS and it’s 2 IR missiles are no comfort.
If you try to take into RB you are just as F.d
Hear me out, the Tonkas have access to a single GBU-24/EGBU-24, I dont have seen anyone use it till today, how about that as stock :3
Big laser guided bombs are kinda useless when you can just direct hit a guy with a 500lb bomb and be done with it. 2000lb gps bombs on the other hand are the GOAT at taking out stationary targets.
I say give tonkas 6 1000lbs bombs stock so they can take out a single base instead of 4 and being stuck with 3/4 of a base gone per run.
5 of the non-low-drag ones get a base iirc, could save a little weight?
The EGBU-24 does gave GNSS as well
Yeah but i find the mp bombs kinda usless, gps gets fucked if i even breath a laser in thier direction. I would love if we got gps bombs only as well so i can still fire at multiple people without only using the pgms as it would allow me to bring more ordinance. 2 pgms, 4 alarms and 3 gps bombs with 2 laser,gps bombs would be the dream loadout.
yeah i think IOG/GNSS deactivates once the seeker sees the laser and doesn’t reactivate if the laser disappears?
Yup, real annoying when your trying to guide in multiple things at once. would love an option to select which bomb you guide in with the rests laser guidance turned off.
The value in those use to be back when they were one of the only weapons with IOG and was a big deal with GBUs. Now yeah, it’s really niche to ever take them. I did a little bit of ship hunting with them in ASB before, but now the PGMs don’t miss and we have Seagles.
One day they while share the AS.34 Kormoran to all the planes which should have it allready since years…
Yeah, that is really dumb. I guess they want to try and keep people buying the MFG
I have the MFG but never actually played it. What’s with the buzz around Kormorans. Aren’t they pretty useless in the game rn?
Niche fun in ASB and a little in ARB but yes. But the point is, they exist in-game, on the same platform, so would be an easy C&P and have no balance concerns
Like pretty much all AShM’s Kormorans are pretty much useless but are cool. But would be cooler if they gave them to other aircraft that could carry them.
Any Tornados ever carry RBS-15F?
Why is that that only the Tornado GR1/GR4 cannot drop the MK.82 and Mk.83 LDGP bombs above mach 1?
I thought that was their entire purpose over the General Purpose bombs and they were safe for release up to mach 1.1?
Guided versions of the LDGP bombs are fine, they can be dropped at least mach 1.14…
Wait what?
I thought every bomb was Mach 1 except for special exceptions like PW4
Tornado seem to be the exception.
All other planes that I am aware of: Typhoon, Gripen, Hornets can all drop their LDGP bombs above mach 1.
F-15E cannot. Seems like a bug.
Anyone having any success with the Tornado GR.4 and ALARM in this latest NE test?
For the life of me I cannot get ALARM to hit with the changes Gaijin have made to the AI SPAA radar behaviour.
I can’t fire from beyond 10km since that’s how far you need to be from the 2S6 for it to turn on it’s radar but if you fire from 10km it turns off it’s radar and the ALARM misses or if I fire from closer the ALARM still won’t hit even if they keep their radar on.
(No clue how far away i normally am but over 40km)