It’s true that gajin can’t add medium-range active radar homing BVRAAM on all fighter aircraft at rank 8 this year
I guess dev could add active radar homing BVRAAM on 6 or 7 aircraft
Still as they semi certify that PL12 which is an AMRAAM C equivalent approximately is gonna be China’s first Fox 3 along other nations mean the only nation that are going to be left without Fox 3s as they would lack a platform would be Japan and maybe Germany as F4 ICE would be kind of dogcrap all other nations have a comparable missile to PL12 and a Okay-ish platform to launch it from.
I don’t think PL-12 is comparable to AIM-120C-5. Essentially just an R-77 in the body of something that can fit the earlier Chinese aircraft mounting points (they used PL-11)…
They obviously modify a lot, really they only share the seeker… But the performance of the two isn’t far off imo.
In short, expect it to be a bit worse than AIM-120C-5… But we will see.
What i just want by using that example is to reasure myself with the possibility that France will get a Fox3 if they come this december otherwise i’m gonnaa cry in a corner except if Mirage IV is added it’ll be funny vehicle
For some reason, Smin has denied MICA… Devs have plans for it. I suppose it’s best to level with the fact it’s not coming.
He hasn’t really denied them imo he just plays with words like litterally when he says “MICA is too strong” this statement could change in the blink of an eye depending on what the game becomes with the next major update. When he says MICA is too strong for the current game its like when he says “Typhoon or AMRAAM is too powerful for the game” this can changes anytime depending of how the game evolves so we’ll see.
and no one is surprised
I’ve always figured the 21UPG with R-77 variants would find its way in as a premium eventually
The problem is that I’d never really care to grind another Russian plane again if we got a 21-93 or UPG. Not unless we got one of the funny motorjets.
“i select mica em”
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1994 TC-2 Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile System
Overview:
The Tien Chien Ⅱ missile(TC-2) is an advanced medium-range, radar-guided air-to-air missile weapon system, and made ROC be one of the few countries able to producing this kind of missile. The TC-2 missile is with the performances in the class of the AMRAAM, and is still in service in ROCAF.
Features:
• Inertial Navigation System and Data Link(Mid-course Guidance)
• Active Radar-Homing (Terminal Guidance)
• Beyond Visual Range(BVR), Multiple-Target Engagement and Designated Interception
• ECCM capability
Performances:
• Seeker : Active Radar
• Fuze : Active RF and contact
• Warhead :High Explosive Fragmented
• Propulsion: Solid Rocket
Production history
Designed 1990s
Manufacturer National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology
Specifications
Mass 184 kg
Length 3.694 m / 4.6 m (TC-2N)
Diameter 19 cm
Operational
range 100 km (62 mi) (TC-2C)
Maximum speed Mach 6 (TC-2C)
Guidance
system Transis guiding phase : Inertial navigation system Terminal homing phase : Active radar homing
I think the Taiwanese M2k should be a French premium. It would help a lot considering the only top tier premium is the MF1C-200.
Make it a Greek one. We need ti for the greek subtree
Greek one would be a copy paste of the mirage 2000 S4 I think, inside ring it carries rdm 3 with r530Ds, right ?
Would that actually be any good ? Especially in the 16v16 meta (mirage 2000 took a huge hit this update with things like su27, M4K and f15 carrying 2 times (or more) the amount missiles. Especially since the S variants only carry 2 Magic 2s
I think when Smin denied the MICA at the time he said it was too advanced… maybe he was saying that this is the case for MICA (and silently thinking the same for AMRAAM and R-77, etc). I hope we do get to see the RF guided MICA along with some of the other fox-3s right away.
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That is almost certain, I think this was Smin’s way of denying FOX-3’s for the recent patch.
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France could receive the modernized version of the Mirage F1 from the Moroccan army which can carry 2 Mica. This would make a generation 3 aircraft with a firing capacity for Fox 3s.
Not sure why you’d want to suffer with that hunk of garbage but whatever works for you mate
kind of agreeing,… Mirage F1 MF2000 whatever the missiles on this is not going to be good.
No it’s definitively not that bad anymore, the airframe itself is now quite okay against most of 3rd gens aircrafts, it’s clearly not the best but its not bad either, and since it was about 3rd gen aircrafts carrying Fox 3, comparing a Mirage F1 to a F-4 Phantom is relevant because it can fight it airframe wise. On the weaponry side it’s another story however, given the ammount of missiles the others planes can carry ( still 8 with 4 Amraam for the F4F ICE and the Tornado, 6 with 4 Amraam for the JA37D ).
What can help with this lower count of missiles would be the qualities of the MICA, especially the IR one, but still, in this comparison the area where the F1 MF2000 would be strugling against a F4F ICE or a Tornado is not the flight performance but the weaponry.
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