I thought it was also because the Su-34 didn’t use the Grom 1 until the M?
Sukhoi Su-27/30/33/35/37 Flanker series & Su-34 Fullback - History, Design, Performance & Dissection
the grom entered service in 1995, it’s super old
edit: i searched for the wrong grom lol it’s not from 1995
I can’t comment on that or whatever the truth is regarding Gaijin’s decision to withold the weapon. I just find the outrage over this weapon disheartening since as best I can tell the weapon looks like it would have only been marginally more useful than the AS-34 Komorran that the Tornado Marineflieger has. At a surface level it really does look to me like it was a case of “we removed X because USA players were upset, and now we’re discussing giving their new Eagle a better engine as an apology”
That’s what it feels like. It almost feels like when the R-73 was held back, but no matter which side of the fence you were on back then there was no question that the R-73 was going to shake up the meta. However, unlike the introduction of the R-73, I have a hard time seeing the Grom do anything except maybe making it easier to complete the “kill X bases” dailies.
The flanker family in general just feels like they’re overall down on their luck right now. Removing the grom just feels like a spiteful unjustified way to kick an under-performing family of planes while they’re down.
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Wasnt the R-73 held back because of FM problems? I remember it being glitchy in the dev sometimes just spinning out of no where. Pretty sure Gaijin made a statement about it too but that was like 2 years ago so I don’t remember the details.
The R-73’s FM problem hasn’t gone anywhere. The FM is still disgusting
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Doesn’t that say sm(3) though
prob 3 production serie of SM, not SM3(version)
Wait, NVM, not weird. I just saw the 12500 kgf thrust and somehow missed the M1 in the name.
The 27S and SM have lower installed thrust in X-Ray, so I guess the Su-34 gets the proper engines it should.
I don’t quite see where the difference how the two pictures have different. Can you point out which sections differ? From my limited research, the original AL-31F and AL-31FM1, or simply all of Salut’s upgrades without the thrust vectoring nozzle, share the same nozzle. Also, I heard that almost all of the original AL-31F Series 2 in service with the Air Force have been replaced with Series 3 that provides 12.8 T thrust, is that true?
Yes, can you send it again? It says link invalid.
NVM, I’m in that discord server now.
i can join it just fine, maybe youre banned?
I have never even been there.
But, NVM, tried it again just now and it worked. Thx
Seems like Gaijin updating RWR displays in cockpits on DEV. Can anyone check for Su-27? I only have J-11 and J-11A, and they dont have it modeled in cockpit view (as it it isnt functional)
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Please tell us if you will have any success.
What happened to the whole thing around RWR on the Su-34
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Su34 got the rwr