Misunderstanding.
i’ll rephrase : you can’t fire AASM IR in LOAL mode from behind cover like AASM GPS or AASM GPS + Laser
To be clear, i’m not advocating for this, since it would bring a quite obvious imbalance, but that’s what a “fixed” AASM IR can do. I’m not too sure it looks like a nerf i you ask me, more like a double edged sword
Yes I understand you now, you do need the seeker to have LOS to the location at a minimum.
At first glance, it seems like a complicated tracking method.
Its actually really simple as far as tracking goes. The complexity is the ground automatic target recognition (ATR) used for the corrections. But the same method is used on a few weapons such as StormShadow/SCALP.
Yeah overall I’d say it might end up as more of a buff than anything. right now you can’t ripple the IR variant, so it takes valuable time to get several going (and you want several bombs to be fired when panthers can shot them down extremely;y easily), so the plane needs to be in a dangerous situation when firing them (with panthers, and I guess in June more advanced SAM as wel) in the area. Recently I have been having a better time dealing with them by bringing only SAL AASM and rippling several in gps mode towards their location, and the IR variant would be even better at doing this. If it gets changed to this mode of guidance, bringing 3 SAL and 3 IR would be a META. IR for first SAM denial, and the 3 SAL for other ground targets destruction
The bomb is a 250kg bomb with time to impact from last correction of 2-3 seconds. That’s more that enough against all target bar fast moving MBTs in game
You will still get some kills sure, but you will get alot of near misses. If my Paveway IV doesn’t hit within about 5m, it normally only damages the target and doesn’t outright kill it.
When stormbreaker?
In my opinion, SCALP-EG/Storm Shadow, JSOW, and JASSM, which use the same method, can be useful for GRB and GSB.
I mean that Tejas clearly has Hammer under the wings long side it’s R-73s
Yeah. Anything else? Anything high quality? Anything that’s not slung under an aircraft while in flight?
If the answer is “no” then there’s nothing of use.
What’s your problem with this image ?
It shows a Tejas with a bomb that’s clearly a AASM under the wing, what else do you want lol
Showing how it’s different to the ones in FAF service.
They shouldn’t be different tho.
The bomb body can be different as advertised by safran but they probably just use the same bombs as the French AASM
I was told India uses the Mk series of bombs as opposed to the SATCP of the FAF.
I see. Yeah this image is not good enough tho. However with this image showing an in service AASM and a primary source/brochure from an Indian source which specify the bomb, it should be enough evidence
It should be noted that two sets of images are taken, not 2 images only. I’d imagine a set of images for the first acquisition and a set of images for the second acquisition.
By the way, AASM IR did destroy mobile targets in Libya. This was before the introduction of AASM-Laser. Further, sources indicate AASM-IR can destroy targets traveling under 70km/h.
Primary source: Rafale International Issue 15
Theres also the chance that if a target is moving during the first aquisition, the new coordinates do not coincide with the target location dueing second aquisition and it either completely loses the target, or doesnt have enoigh pull to try to course correct on second aquisition.
First aquisition is for course correction, second aquisition is for sub-meter accuracy, not trying to find the target again…
Thats not what that means.
“Mobile time sensitive systems” means targets that can reposition, not targets that are moving. They’re time sensitive cuz they can get out of danger by moving away to hide.
Also, not sure where you got the 70km/h number from that source, seeing as it literally never once actually mentions hitting moving targets. It actually states that most AASM launches were the GPS/INS only variants, and that the IR variant was used vs a military building requiring a certain level of accuracy to acheive an actual militatily significant result.
