My question is whether the British Sea Eagle anti-ship missile could be used to attack ground vehicles like the AGM-119A Penguin anti-ship missile used by the Norwegian F-5A(G) event vehicle? I am not an expert in missile guidance systems but the Sea Eagle missile seems to have similar capabilities to that missile, even the Sea Eagle was designed to be the replacement for the AJ.168 Martel missile that is used in the game by the Buccaneer S.2B but unlike the Martel the Sea Eagle has inertial guidance and then guides itself to the target through the radar that the missile itself has, in addition the missile has a fairly good range and an explosive warhead of 230 kg HE quite better than the 75 kg of the Martel.
To give an example, the Chilean A-36 Halcon light attack jets used this missile and some British aircraft as well. I think that against ships it could be very useful and against ground vehicles it could be used like the Penguin without any designator and flying in a straight line towards a target, but as I said before I am not an expert so I would like to know your opinion on this.
I leave here the description and specifications of the missile in case it helps.
But the description says that half the distance is covered by inertia and the second half is using the radar that the missile has. If it is launched from a distance of a few kilometers towards the ground, wouldn’t it go in a straight line at least?
Technicaly you could fire Exocet against large ground target with some modification (I believe it was the Iranien who modified a little bit their missiles to do so but the succes wasn’t really important)
Because I have a suggestion made about the Chilean A-36 that used the Sea Eagles and if I can prove that they can be used even in a similar way to a Bullpup, it would give additional value to the aircraft.
I doubt that would be implemented in game. Many many missiles should be able to jsut be fired in a general direction if the pilot so wanted (or in the case of Sharkey Ward during the Falklands, accidentally fired a Aim-9L off into the yonder instead of releasing the bomb he intended to drop) . But gaijin forces a lock. In all likelyhood, if we ever get Sea Eagles they’ll have a straight C&P of the AS-34 Koromans seeker
Penguin cant lock ground targets anymore they changed that a while ago. Besides it doesn’t even behave as a anti ship missile and more so a basic maverick
I mean, the Penguin works like a Bullpup, but you can’t control it. It only flies in a straight line. As you said, it can’t track tanks anymore; it only tracks ships. The Sea Eagle would do the same thing, but with a much larger explosive charge.
Yeah again its more like a slower rocket since a bullpup that cant be controlled is not really worth using imo. But the F-5A(G)-40 is all sorts of wrong and been left to rot but whatever.
I still think its fine to add sea eagle just as long as it actually can use the missile effectively instead of the F-5A(G)-40, Britain could use another solid CAS vehicle
