Royal Thai Air Force JAS39 Gripen C/D early batch a MS19, infrared Air-to-Air Missile AIM-9P-4 & IRIS-T and active radar homing medium-range Air-to-Air Missile AIM-120C AMRAAM (AIM-120C-5 & AIM-120C-7)
I was speaking of the radar, not the missiles of the Thai. They also under 2022 upgraded their fleet of JAS39C to MS20 standard.
But during that training exercise with the Chinese they were able to lock the Su27/J11 at a range of about 160km and that was with the MS19 in 2015 before upgrades were even initiated.
You skipped over the GBU-39 which was only fitted to MS20 gripens of which as we can see in game the SAAF gripen has them when IRL they never bought MS20. They do not have the avionics to use them and should not receive any of the other upgrades that the MS20 has as again they shouldn’t get them. You ignored my point entirely.
RTAF Gripen C early batch with MS19 and PS-05/A Mk3 radar like Gripen C from swedish
Late batch MS20 upgraded, convert PS-05/A Mk3 to PS-05/A Mk4 radar in 2027 or 2028. My guess.
But Royal Thai Air Force not ordered GBU-39/B SDB I and dual seeker GPS/Laser GBU-49/B Enhanced Paveway II
What are you on about? RTAF has in 2022 upgraded their Gripens to MS20. The upgrade is already complete. Bringing their planes up to standard doesn’t mean they need to buy all the weapon systems integrated on the airframe…
They have just recently announced that they will be buying JAS 39E/F for their next planes.
So right now they have MS20 JAS 39C/D, MS 20 is not just new weapon systems but the upgraded PS-05/A MK3 radar, upgraded EW suite, and more along with more weapons integrated. This doesn’t mean that they need to buy the integrated weapons.
In 2015 when that exercise with Thai JAS 39 Gripen and Chinese J11 took place they were the MS19 standard so with the standard PS-05/A MK3 radar.
As far as I know there are no (public at least) plans for further upgrades of the Thai C/D Gripens yet.
The only reason I mentioned the Thai here is due to the pilots talking about the 160 km tracking range of the radar. It doesn’t matter what their specific capabilities are in this forum as we don’t have that plane in the game as of now.
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Do you know what the “cockpit MFD radar changes” in the last row are?
Nope, Live is 31
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AIM-120 can fit on AIM-9 rails, so it’s just the AIM-9 BOL pod, same reason you get 8 AIM-120s on F-15C
Yet still not addition of C and K Band, gosh…
C is back
Well K is still missing so its still not complete yet.
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It will be fixed in the same update that the soviets get a new top tier SPAA.
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Funny thing is F4F ICE has K band detection and i can confirm it, yesterday i used my ICE on Ground Rb and i was able to detect Pantsir’s launch on me so i dont think that is the reason.
I believe they are just lazy.
Well thats nothing new.
Hopefully they fix this issue so we can properly fight against Pantsir’s in our Gripen’s, this is really important considering Spaa’s just recieved ammo box so that means Pantsir can basically spam 24 missile to entire sky, now imagine what would happen when enemy team decides to spawn 4 pantsir.
I dont even wanna think about it.
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Let alone the fact that the Gripen is really outclassed these days.
Its fine, but WAY more limited in terms of A2G payload compared to the F-16, F-15 or Su-34. And they can all run Fox-3s at the same time with their max A2G loadouts.
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Well for that you need Gripen E model and by the judge of it only Sweden will recieve it.
Britian has to wait for EFT in order to get ‘‘True’’ multirole Fighter.
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Yep, and I think we are primed for the EFT this decemeber. Not a lot else they can add that is even close to the F-15E
Maybe Japan as well via Thailand
Hopefully we also recieve Rafale at the same time.
Hell no, Japan can use F2 for that, sharing Gripen with Italy was already hard enough so i dont want to see Thailand Gripen E ending up in Japan tree.
Japan doesnt deserve it.