Give them a day or 2, especially at the moment, they’ll be swamped with bug reports.
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Back on specific topic. Try checking stuff regarding UAI integration (F-15E has it). A couple of them have lists of integrated weapons, and I may have seen EGBU in them
http://www.midkiff.cz/obj/firma_produkt_priloha_2_soubor.pdf#page=2
The only issue is the technicality that the BLU-109, as listed has significantly reduced TNTe due to being a bunker-buster variant of the Mk.84
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it does say that any 1760 or 1553 equipped jets can use it. and the whole point is retaining the form factor of older Paveway III. so F-15E should also be able to carry EGBU-24
but it is honestly impressive how you find such good sources
It’s literally just;
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raiding the bug report portal and forum threads for anything that looks interesting, being documents , excerpts or names to reverse look up later.
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Throwing “brochure” on the end of a google search.
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Randomly trying to use Youtube to look for promotional videos.
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Looking at various blogs like Aviation archive. And other forums like DCS, secret projects, F-16.net and
the DTIC & internet archive repositories. additionally reverse looking up Designation systems numerous catalogs to find specific designations for JETDS items. -
Remembering to look at the wayback machine to investigate dead / broken / hanging links.
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Getting a .PDF copy of any document you see and having some sort of offline organizational structure(e.g. Obsidan), and link back to where you found it.
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Sadly, I can’t find USM F/A-18C carry GBU-54(V)2/B Laser JDAM
For example F/A-18A (HUG Pase 3.2) carry GBU-54 Laser JDAM
The thing to look for is that the Proximity Airburst nose fuse (DSU-33/B) the JDAM uses is white, while the DSU-38 (SALH seeker) is black, or a light grey (if thermally coated).
Honestly, something thats of pretty major importance imo are some larger winged bombs for BLUFOR countries. ATM, Russia has exclusive control over large caliber winged bombs in the Grom-2 and FAB-3000 UMPK, and it allows them to destroy bases in sim from 70km away with little that can intercept them before they already accomplish their drops.
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There aren’t really many options to sever as modern counterparts (GBU-9 & -11 use a 3000lb M118E1 demolition bomb) unless we’re adding things like the BLU-118 (2000lb Thermobaric (40:1 “Re” factor) warhead, 560lb. 254kg filler so is equivalent to 22,400lb / 10,160kg of TNT ) as an alternate warhead for Mk.84 compatible kits, which is used in the AGM-130D, but is substantively compatible with the Paveway, JDAM and other kits.
cough cough JSOW series
JDAM-ER
Unless they are adding the BLU-108 equipt variants the searched volume is too small, and the CBU-105 would probably be more effective.
JSOW-B has longer range than CBU-105 though right?
and JDAM-ER glide kits for 2000lb LJDAM would be nice
Storm Shadow and give it a damage multiplier vs bases :P
too bad they dont have JDAM kits for napalm bombs huh
Almost certainly, but it gets an additional 16 skeets (6 vs 10 BLU-108) for said reduced range, and a 16Nmi range is certainly still useful.
Also it can be carried in significant numbers.
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nice. that’s a whole Soviet armored division’s worth of skeets
CBU-113 is a CBU-87 with the WCMD-ER guided tail kit, which is filled by 202x BLU-97 (287 g (0.63 lb) Cyclotol + zinc body) which has an incendiary function and fills that roll.
Oh yeah 18x (10 x 4 ) is 360 110mm RHAe EFPs total
Only thing more with a higher Pk per fly out is the Rockeye, but there is no guided / long range equivalent.
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I’d love to see they add GBU-28B/B and GBU-28C/B. 4,700 lb bomb would be the biggest bomb the US have yet and would be fun to use.
it’s possible to have a 10,000kg Tnt equivalent mk84 class weapon? inject that STRAIGHT into my veins
wow
when can has agm-130d?
That’s fine, ONLY IF the mig29 gets its R73s back that you all complained about until it was nerfed and taken from it.