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Jaguar GR3A used ASRAAM in RAF service
They didn’t
Following an assessment of the cost effectiveness and operational benefits of this project, we have decided not to proceed with integration of the ASRAAM onto Jaguar GR3A.
But GR.3 was equipped for it and an ex-RAF GR.3 was used to certify it for India. It would have been approved to carry them in emergency use, but was never certified.
Thats a ACMI pod my guy.
This is what you’re after, but this was testing, never made it to service;
Other than that test its just the Indian DARIN III Jaguars;
The suggestion needs updating then.
11.0 with 9Ls, then, although Gaijin does have a history with adding vehicles and armaments that didn’t make it into service
Personally I think a GR.3 absolutely should have access to ASRAAM.
They were fully equipped for them with the intent to support ASRAAM from its original intended ISD ~1999, and the only reason they didn’t carry them in the RAF is because of funding, and delays with the missile’s acceptance into the RAF.
Captive trials and initial integration for GR.3 were carried out as far back as 1998 when ASRAAM was first handed over to the RAF for integration on Tornado and Harrier. Using XX833 which was the twin-seat Jaguar 97 (GR.3A) testbed operated by DERA.
Certification for safe flight and firing with Jaguar went on to be proven for Indian service - again with ground trials and integration for India being carried out with an RAF jet (XZ117), before IAF Jaguars took to the air carrying the missile.
So really there would have been nothing stopping the GR.3 having the capability of using ASRAAM in a wartime situation with emergency clearance. At any point from when the missile reached IOC in 2002, until it was finally accepted in to service in 2005 and the decision to finally retire Jaguar from the RAF took place.
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Can’t help but notice it was mounted on a CRL each time, would’ve been reasonably trivial to convert that to the CRL/BOL had it been accepted into service.
I thought that said chobham for a second and thought we had ourselves yet another version of composite armour lol.