I’m pretty sure 22 countermeasures and 44 only chaff
So we got all the weapon pylons but the CMs are still wrong? Is it just missing the external CM dispenser or more? Its kinda hard to keep track of all the places they stuck flares on this plane haha.
It’s not about electronics it’s about the launcher itself. There are 2 types of launchers - rail ones and catapult ones. Heatseekers can only be placed on rail launchers (don’t remember specific reason) while underbelly launchers are specifically catapult ones to ensure that missile will be far enough from an airframe to avoid collision post launch.
I see, the one I’m referring to has no ordinance mounted. There are only empty pylons, two pylons on the outer wings labeled for Aim-9b and J’s and two near the forward centre with the same label. I was not aware that museum pieces had these errors without mounted ordinance.
Thank you for the information.
Well, the pilots themselves would say 178 flares, or 154 chaff + 24 flares. MFCD and EMFCD add their own variety of flares and chaff, but I want to draw attention to what MFCD is,
“Modular Flare and Chaff Dispenser”
The F-35 pilots book already refers to the undertail dispensers as “flare catridges” in one image, while specifically calling out the chaff catridges on the EMFCD pods on the same page. The cassettes containing these flares are described as visually identical, and the fact the whole program was called MODULAR heavily implies they were interchangable by design, but standard operation was usually all chaff where available, as the aircraft was meant to do low flying strikes on enemy locations, vehicles and even radar (if you were brave enough) by doctrine. Therefore there was rarely a reason to supply all flares, but the modularity of it allowed them to be swapped. The only exceptions for this, were the right wing root flares (12) and the six on each side of the exhaust (12). Those were only flares as they could not be changed (and in the ultimate irony, those are the only ones Gaijin allowed us to change)
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It only featured 12 flares on the right wing root, not both sides. 12 in the right wing, 12 on the tail, adding up to 24
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From the pages you posted i understood it as the ALQ pods were modified to have the same dispensers as mounted underneath the tail. If it is possible to figure out what model these dispensers were, it would be possible to make a report about it.
I suppose the modification turning the ALQ into CM pods were made locally, possibly by Terma?
lol that hurts my head that they would do that. I do see in the diagram only one is shown. i just figured they would do the same for the other side haha
please make a bug report before the thing is finalized and they decide to not care about it anymore.
No idea by who or what their concrete name is. It was a Danish company though, that much I know, as per account of the pilots. Besides the name, they all come in cassettes of 11 pieces, chaff or flare. The EMFCD pods were equipped with five slots for these modular countermeasures. I admit I have not seen anything stating they used the flares for them, but also nothing saying they couldn’t. I suppose it is up to Gaijin based on that, until I can either get in contact with the pilots personally to confirm or deconfirm it
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Well, they made it accurate as per the manual. I’m more happy about that than anything else, because it means they are keeping their eyes on the manual, and my work
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By the way, i saw a report was made for the missing wimg pod CM dispensers. It was in russian, and they hadnt got a reply yet. At least last i looked.
well, they made an entire post about f-35, so i assume that it’s one of their priorities or something like that…
sweden is getting some attention for once
is there a report for 9N-2 too?
Is the F-35 1 1/2 available digitally? Ive tried to look for it, but couldnt find any…
With the skins datamined I noticed something on the demonstrator livery of our Draken. The most outer hardpoint I highligted. I might be mistaken but could this be the wing mounted countermeasure pod?
(Mind you this was not modeled before, looking back at the dev footage)
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it is
It only can be. Yet another flawless victory for Danish vehicles in this game (though saying that, I probably jinxed it)
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