I am new to this part, but have we talked about the MAW system on the gripen C? Or that it should be able to hit Mach 2 at altitude?
Sigh first figure out what Gripens in game have. Second find out what nations have MS20 Gripens. The amount of people that don’t know (or blatantly ignore) the MS of the Gripem are why we have these weird hybrid abominations in game.
Additionally last time i checked MAW is only on the Gripen NG and the E.
Edit: Internal MAW is only on NG and E. ESTL pod is for the MS20 Gripens and uses a pylon we dont have in warthunder thanks to the gripens being a mess. The ESTL pod may fit on the other stations but ive only seen it on one pylon.
Your fact sheet is MS20 BTW.
SAAF Gripen is not MS20 nor has it ever been and essentially in the wrong chat. Any other Gripen thread would be better since all other nations use MS20 aside from SAAF.
Lets blame the people again like its not the devs who are the one who call the shots
I blame both, the devs didn’t know and are to embarrassed to admit they screwed up. And the people who do (minor) bug reports spend maybe 2 minutes checking google. Again the MS was only really mentioned on the swedish threads. Again its strange to me people dont assume that there are different C models.
I am fairly certain that the ESTL pod is fitted to the outer wing pylons meaning that it takes up a pylon for missiles. I think I read that they use the AIM-9 and AIM-120 system interface. Doubt there is another pylon just for it. I guess it could fit on the wingtips as well.
Guess i mistook another item for station 4 my bad
This pod is modular too so you can swap out the different modules like the MAW sensor and such for other things, not sure what the other things could be but maybe extra EW for planes that don’t have any.
Yeah, iirc they were only added with MS20. Though trying to find exact stuff with MS is occasionally a nightmare.
First fully operational version of the ESTL pod flown in 2014 from what I’ve found, MS20 was around in 2015 so not possible to do before hahaha
Ive seen some sites claim MS20 was around in 2014 so its hard to say. Again until actual info pops up as to which model ESTL is compatabile with its hard to justify what it should be added to. Considering how screwed the Gripen are it would be best to leave it out. Just let the NG/E have access to their internal MAW. Could see gaijin making the C 14.0 over MAW lol
And kneecapping BOL again for reasons that evade us. Can’t have the CMs too effective on Gripen, especially not if it got MAWS.
I mean we’re still waiting on the belly pylon lol
Yeah, and I’m still quite upset about it 😿
I don’t understand how hard it could be for them to just add the belly pylon, there are pictures of planes flying with bombs there and the foldouts and so on…
Well, you see, it is a Swedish design, so the sky will fall upon us before they decide to fix anything in a manner favourable to it.
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hahaha, true that
Well its a swedish aircraft. They have to want to fix it, and they haven’t wanted to bother with their aircraft in years why start now
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How about opening up a suggestion thread to implement an MS standard for the Gripens in the game, perhaps that is a more viable way to go now that we have consecutively tried bug reports again and again…
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This is why we could engage in a discussion and desire for the developers to implement such a system much like the “Block” models for F-16. It would be the same thing…