Try actually playing it then?
38mt already doing that
moar slightly related messeges, gotta get this thread to 10k
not really
it can self lase missiles from their but with buddy lasing stuff like helis could be perfectly safe behind terrain with an ally 30km away lasing for them
Can’t do anything better that projecting your own issues ? I didn’t cried a river of 6000 messages that landed on first pages of google search.
What is this then ? On Algerian MiG-29M
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it kind of is, it has a jet engine
mini cruise missile vs. glide bomb. if they made GBU-53 have GPS+IR+Laser but SPEAR 3 have only GPS+Laser (they get rid of MMW for both) it would be pretty fair
Is this supposed to be some sort of flex?
The T-220 is the best they can come up with after decades and getting Damocles from the French. And it’s still basically unobtainium from what I have seen.
Really want to keep going with this?
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Cool but were not talking about your personal prefernces it’s about can they make one or not this thing exist whether you like it or not.
Exactly, and it certainly seems like they can’t (likely without access to French IR sensors), given despite the evidence of testing, it has not proliferated enough to be commonplace. Meanwhile the fantasy KH-38MT is effectively using one of these as a disposable missile seeker…
Yeah… A couple exist, decades late and out of date to finally surpass the integrated systems they had to rely on for a fraction of the capability of the rest of the world.
Algeria made a purchase in 2020 these one were made after Crimean and Ukrainian ivasion sanctions whether they have French or some other country IR sensors this one exist saying that Russia can’t make IR TGP is delusion
Iirc they’re completely domestic.
Russia has been making their own IR sensors for quite awhile now, the quality has been all over the place of course but they are very much capable of it.
As for TGPs in general(regardless of if they have thermal or not) Russia isn’t incapable of making them and if you want to be overly pedantic they technically did they just weren’t removable and were a part of the plane, with the Su-24s or MiG-27Ks targeting system being a good example of this. Russia chose to not make them a separate component and it probably had nothing to do with manufacturing capability, (at least until the soviet union collapsed anyhow), they just never saw it to be something worth doing in their eyes until recently.
It’s still question will they adopt it or not all the recent alleged footage of Kh-38ML shows that it has been launched from aircarft and then laser guided by a drone so what’s the point using TGP if that can be done by a drone while aircraft can stay in more safer position
All over the mess*
They will never get anything close to 2, let alone 3rd gen.
On yt and X are thermal targeting clips from russian choppers. Does it even look like Gen 1?
A classic is the AGAVA tank sight from the 90’ties (i think). Ingame they’re gen1 quality, but irl screens look like…dunno you just see a huge white blip you can’t even identify. You just see that there’s a thermal source, impossible to identify.
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Or,.on the grounds the typhoon carries less spear3s than the F15 can crry gbu39s and no FnF weapon of any kind. Just add GPS only spear3s now and then give them sal as well when they add gbu53s
only if they give GBU-39B Laser SDB, on the grounds that SPEAR 3 is jet powered and a miniature cruise missile
even then GBU-53 is main US counterpart to the SPEAR 3. trying to justify a weapons system nearly 20 years newer as a counterpart is disingenous
Then only if they give brimstone 1s FnF because the F15 has agm65s
the fact that america is fine for cas and we are asking for just a GPS guided bomb similar to that of the SDB for the typhoon and automatically the US needs a new weapon is like bruh
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