Will the USA be the only country to receive the new aim120d in the next major update

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God pls no

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Only 1 14.0 F-18 doesn’t have anything other than aim 120 A so having the 120D might be solid if kept at the same BR

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i mean thats just my best guess as it wouldnt make sense for any other plane

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I’d imagine it gets improved seeker ie narrower FoV, if they intend it to be an actual upgrade.

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Honestly I am not even sure if that would be the case. Even the top level ARH AMRAAM SAMs are stuck with the standardized FOV, I would not be surprised if the only upgrade was GNSS.

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The bare minimum needed is B/C5 buffs/fixes. Otherwise we are screwed

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Second generation of ARH SAMs do have narrower seeker FoV, with Buk being posterboi bussian rias with 3.5 degree FoV… that is still chaffable as any other missile, while stronger (?) seeker announces itself 40km from target, not usual 20km.

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I was talking about the AMRAAM SAMs since they are applicable upgrades to the family itself. I’d assume that the stated improvements in the guidance section and target acquisition stated in the public release files would have prompted atleast those versions to have a better seeker, and since there’s even less data about the D variant I doubt they will do anything more than the GNSS addition.

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C7 and AMRAAM-ER do have identical seeker properties, but latter has reworked PID guidance which may or may not help with getting on target.

ER has quite bit higher max fin AoA, thrust vectoring and significantly lower air drag coefficient, also drastically steeper lofting trajectory. Does that fit “improvements in guidance section and target acquisition”? Dunno.

Then GPS for air to air missiles all it does is reduces already low inertial guidance drift to zero. Someone did somewhere math and for usual 2m/s drift present on AMRAAM, missile had to fly for something like 30 minutes before drift would become a concern. And we’re talking about pure IOG launch, without datalink support.

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hopefully other aircraft wont receive them, so their performance can be used to balance under preforming aircraft

unlike how they added AIM-120C to the best airframe in game and then lost the ability to use it to balance the worst top tier aircraft

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that’s what I think they’re considering, not the Typhoons but things like the F-15J(M), Israel top tier etc.

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So the Typhoons might get the Aim-120D?

That wouldn’t really give a great time to the US jets I guess.