Well that would be on the ASSTA3.0 or 3.1 upgrade, not the IDS, I don’t think the IDS could use the HARMS
the ASSTA-1 and even the PRE-ASSTA ones can have those too
thats a balance decision and that’s been clear from the start
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Really? I don’t think I’ve ever had that happen to me.
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I’d counter their balance decision with “WTF is the Tornado balanced against…?” Smokeless trail for 2 IR missiles would hardly be unbalanced, especially when armed on a flying semitruck
A Map perfect for modern Carriers and ship targets.
Dear Gaijin, if you put water on half the map, then put some ships on it too.
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The last time I saw that map, the fog was so bad I just J’d out.
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no, ASSTA (1) standardized and replaced the avionics to be reprogrammable
and because they’re standardised wmong all ASSTA tornados they can just flash new weapons on them and they did that for all that they have in service, and that incudes HARM that were in use with the Recon squads and MFGs ECRs
this is also why LJDAM can be used with ASSTA 1, if there were any ASSTA 1 left by the time we bought LJDAM kits
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Yup, the one I always look at with disbelief that there is no naval targets at all
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do you want it at 11.7 or higher like all other AiM-9M carriers? (because 9Li-1 is decafto a better 9M)
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But flashing them, wouldn’t that instantly take them from being say Pre-ASSTA1 —> ASSTA3, say if they added the LJDAMS?
If Italian can do it, German can too
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Better 9m since its smokeless right? I’d say we have to look at the most recent addition, the Ja37DI with AMRAAMS. Putting a good missiles on a bad jet doesn’t make it crazy. Hopefully they have done the testing to see if the smokeless trail on it would really warrant a BR increase.
no (shortened lists as most stuff doesn’t matter)
ASSTA 2 added a new cockpit with cool LCD MFDs for the rear pilot
ASSTA 3 added stronger landing gear
ASSTA 3.1 is defacto a Software updates
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as you can see that this one doesn’t have any cannons that means it is an ECR
besides that all nations have fully different tornados as everyone modified them on their own
even the Italian stock ECRs are different from the German stock ones
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I’d argue that adding the better missile would actually make the Tornado a viable option in air RB, but that hasn’t been the case since they initially moved the IDS up like a month after release.
With the AShM getting fixed? recently in one of the minor updates a few weeks ago, I’m hoping that’s because more AShM carriers are going to be added soon (like the F-2 which primarily was for anti-shipping duties).
Of course, could just be coincidence and all that
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I’d rather have no IRCCM missiles than be put against worse Radar missiles
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Only reason I can think they made any meaningful effort to fix that code to the degree they did was
A) A plan to add ASMs accross the board to most nations
or
B) ASMs are coming to naval.
It just doesnt make sense to put such effort in for the AS-34s on the MFG and the fact there is basically no naval targets that these jets see anyway, unless its sim, which the devs have never cared about
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I’m at the point for the tornados where, I don’t use them, at all. I used the IDS when it came out, spaded and talid it, and its really unusable now. Would like a reason to take out 1 of the 4 Tier VIII jets we have in air RB :/