No, it doesnt use AGM-65s and I didnt mention them using them at all.
I don’t think those Lightening Pods do airborne search and track
Blue Vixen outperformed both AN/APG-63 and the 70s AND was far smaller and lighter.
CAPTOR-M has consistantly gone toe to toe with most AESA systems and the CAPTOR-E liekly outperforms the radar in both the F-22 and F-35.
Pretty much for the past 80 years europe has been ahead of the curve with radar tech
US and Australia have closer military connection than Australia and UK. Canada and Australia dont use much if any UK stuff but do use US stuff, especially for aircraft
the UK tie to them is less than nothing if there is no US claim
Would you rather get got by something with a brutalist, cold name like AGM-69420-B(v)2
Or by something called ✨Spice✨ and 💐Delilah💐
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In the 3rd image, is there a reason for the AMRAAM to be missing from columns 2 and 4? Or is it just a typo thing?
how so? they have 160km range, gimped to 120 ingame for some reason.
CAPTOR-M sole advantage over the APG-81 is range. The APG-77, which has considerably more range than the 81, outperforms the CAPTOR-M in literally every way except for unit cost, which is negated by AESA radars inherently being more maintenacne friendly than M-scan.
CAPTOR-E comparable to APG-81, you said it yourself, and anyways F-35 getting the APG-85.
all the CAPTOR-E has is ability to turn, which granted it a pretty good one to have.
if i was told the enemy had Delilahs and Spice bombs id probably start laughing, now, the russians have some pretty cool sounding names for their stuff.
The Aussie who used a lot of UK aircraft into the Cold War? and Canada who has more pure C&P spitfires than all of its US aircraft?
And here we are, “they use US tech, so the US should have a claim”. So you should be able to claim the world due to the Shermans you sent to everyone? Exported tech is not a reason, else all nations can claim the world.
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Yea, AESA can do more and it’s amazing IRL but for WT all those extra features aren’t necessary and detrimental to gameplay
which is why the coalition thing should go to US and UK?? since US is closer to Australia military since WW2, same with Canada who largely relies on the US for its defence.
Will the A7E attack aircraft of Thailand carry thermal imaging pods and AGM65B air-to-surface missiles？
Most places i’ve seen report Blue Vixen as being consistantly equal to if not better than AN/APG-73. Despite being much smaller.
Given a mechanical radar can go toe to toe with a E-scan radar, shows its not to be triffled with.
We knwo nothing about either, so to assume one is blanket better than the other is just folly. But given CAPTOR-E is newer, its reasonable to assume its better.
The idea that “MERICA IS BEST” is just hubris. Yes, the US invest most of their money into miltiary R&D instead of thigns like health care or education. But that doesnt mean non-US equipment is defacto worse or outright bad.
Like claiming US missile will just be better because they are made by the US
Given Storm Shadows track record so far. That is a bold blanket statement to make
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part of why i think AN/APG-77 will be best or 2nd best radar (to APG-82v1), it has by far the longest range of any fighter AESA, and though it doesnt have some of the super advanced stuff on like an F-35 for ground pounding, it doesnt matter ingame
we did get a pretty cool name for our SDB sucessor though, Stormbreaker
did we name our new guided bomb after a fictional hammer?
is it that unreasonable though? considering US is the best country in the world at stealth currently
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Again, bold statement, we will have to see how the US compares to things like the 6th gens being developed.
Just because a lot of nations didnt dump billions into the development of 5th gens (though the UK was a lead partner in the F-35 program and iirc, the FAA provided much of the early requirements that the USMC went on to use for the F-35) doesnt mean that the US defacto has a monopoly on all stealth technology.
Odd, how can we rely on a nation that threatens us with losing our independence? Heck we even avoid buying US as much as possible(and when we do we remove the US for the factor as much as possible)
We do not rely on the US for defence, they have us at gunpoint forcing us to rely on the US. Heck, the last time we tried to rebuild our military the US threatened us until we stopped.
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To be honest in recent years, out of the ASEAN countries, only the Philippines are openly hostile with China. Even countries like Vietnam and Indonesia which have territories conflicts with China, seem to have found a way to balance relationship with China and the US. Don’t forget that China are already many ASEAN countries biggest trade partner and China would also like to invest more in these countries.
I think a lot of the news we get when it comes to “conflict with China” is the stuff going on the south china sea. where China is actively trying to claim huge parts of what is considered international waters or even sovereign waters of other nations.
for example:
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