Hawks and maybe a few commonwealth vehicles such as the atlas cheetah or some f16’s or f18’s?
or hell maybe even the gnats or jet provost for some older jets at like 8.3-9.0
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/989579862031360111/1136072552859578420/Active-1.png
Someone here posted Active Skyflash pictures on a Hawk earlier. Seems like Tornado F3 could get Active Skyflash? It also hints to me that it used a MICA EM seeker, with how the seeker has the same gimbal limits and made by the same manufacturer.
Just easier to give AMRAAM
Or Micas themselves
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Judging by this picture, it seems like there were at least two versions
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Could be the angle tho
Where is this
“ZA175 British Aerospace Sea Harrier of the Royal Navy preserved at the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton 28/8/22”
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Well, would be easier yes. There’s also supposedly an AMRAAM-Skyflash II variant.
What am i looking at here?
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Fire and forget
ECM resistant
Multi target capability
High reliabilityAll aspect All weather
Visual reversion mode?
Shoot up Shoot down capability
Easy to maintainActive Skyflash is a medium range all-aspect active radar air to air missile which has been designed to meet the bomber, fighter, and cruise missile threat predicted in the 1990s.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/955829235493273680/1136287832017744013/image.png
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Volume 2 of that document would likely contain much more interesting information. Unfortunately that was not in the folder at the National Archives.
Indeed but good luck finding the document with only “volume 2: the technical volume” as the only guide haha.
Unfortunately a lot of the time at the National Archives you order a very generically named folder (that one was called “air to air weapons”) with no real idea what documents will be in it. So if I ever do find volume 2 there then it will be more luck than judgement.
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is it the same motor as skyflash supertemp ?
The mock ups at the museum appear to be standard Skyflash with the branding “Active Skyflash” on them, no?
Telling Skyflash and Skyflash SuperTEMP apart visually is very difficult. The document from the National Archives implies that Active Skyflash is based upon the TEMP, rather than the SuperTEMP though. Personally I’d imagine that had the project gone ahead it would have ended up using the SuperTEMP body.
As far as I know all the pictures of Active Skyflash are dummy Skyflash missiles with “Active Skyflash” painted on them.
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Yeah seems to be the case, I’d argue we could see an active Skyflash for early Tornado variants but with the option for AMRAAM… Conversations already been had lol