You can see the BOP/B (BOY 402) mounted together with a BOL pod and a missile on the outer pylon. The inner pylon i can only make out a BOL pod on.
Just to be clear, i don’t mean that it can be mounted on inner and outer pylons at the same time. I probably should have used “or” instead of “and” perhaps to make that clearer (If that is what you were questioning).
I have yet to find anything that proves them being mounted on inner and outer pylons simultaneously but i am looking and will add the info if found.
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I might just have found it! (though it might not be enough)
Yeah I don’t see your logic here, they are already available outboard on all Gripen C models, your report doesn’t have any justification for them inboard or that Gripen A carried them .
just edited my answer.
also, i didn’t know they were available on the C in game.
If they can only be carried on one set of pylons at a time then there is not really a need for them to exist on both unless the addition is limited by ordinance.
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oh, i think i see my mistake in the report now, i mistook one of the images as an inner pylon at the beginning of making the report and corrected it but never corrected the last bit of info.
the system includes means to discover threats from radar, analyze the signals, validate them against known data, present the threats to the pilot and take proper counteractions. These counteractions include, for instance, electronic jamming against radar and radar-guided missiles, flares against IR-guided missiles and chaff against radar and radar-guided missiles
I do not see anything about MAWS, if i read this correctly it could identify missile using plane radar, compare it to the database and tell the pilot what it think it is or it is simply a RWR description.
and then take the appropriate counteractions. If the “threats” described aren’t also missiles then why would the need for automatic IR-flares and chaff against missiles be there?
it says that they EW system takes proper counteractions, of which includes flares and chaff against missiles.
i don’t see how you read it differently but i’m no stranger to be proven wrong.
i also just found this, however its a bit inconclusive on the specifics of MAW. BUT it clearly states that the system can deploy flares and chaff automatically.
This is a similar press release and to me that doesn’t read as a MAW at all. It basically says “we have an E-war suite and various other countermeasures”.
