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Hey so apparently the Eurofighter has a AoA/G override. Does that me we should be able to get AMK performance when Load permits?

Yes your right but the claim was 10% better ITR vs 15% on the AMK, so at least a good chunk of the benefit was possible early on if not the full thing.

I have a FOIA request for belenko‘a Mig-25 manual. Unfortunately it was transferred to the DIA and their average response time would have them reply January of 2027.

Thank you for that! I saw another article from late 2021 that AMK was still in the cards Apparently the strakes where tested on the DA5 aircraft years before the AMK kit in 2007

https://www.bundeswehr.de/de/ausruestung-technik-bundeswehr/ausruestung-bewaffnung/aim-9l-i-sidewinder it’s still listed as an active weapon. I think it would be fun for Training scenarios where you are doing bfm and want to do a handicap. Also I think it was more common on the Tranche 1 aircraft which didn’t initially have HMS.

Big boy could be fun if the information is readily available

Rafale F1 hud footage and brief cockpit shot

Maybe now they are, and only the 80-100 or so they modified. But the original aircraft produced from the early 80s were MSIP I equivalent with some Japan specific changes mostly related to the electronic warfare and added Data link. JMSIP in the early 2000s brought about 80 planes to a similar standard to ongoing upgrades in the US, apg-63(v)1, increased computing power, and provisions for Japanese specific weapons like AAM-4 and AAM-5. It’s only now 40 years after introduction that these aircraft are becoming EX like. Here is a photo from 2010 with mk82, long before EX standard http://takaoka.zening.info/JSDF/JASDF/Mark_82_bomb/ 2004 http://tonkatsu298.pya.jp/07chi02.html https://f.hatena.ne.jp/uruya/20130804115221 2013 https://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~qk4j-fry/2006cts/soubi.htm 2006

The F-15J is a licensed produced F-15C.

I’m curious if the J-8 has any capacity for bfm or if it’s a pure interceptor

Hey I know this is air to ground but I just realized. Did we ever confirm AIM-9L?

I don’t know much about the numbering system of the PLAAF or PLAN, but could this be the last four digits of a bort number? Past or present?

PLAN J-10AH targeting pod https://alert5.com/2016/08/10/planaf-j-10ah-with-kjdc01-targeting-pod-and-ls500j-lgb/ pretty unlikely but still a plane I like talking about.

Fc3 su-27/33 cockpit, probably a mod, though they might be working on it. a J-8II with the advanced radar and Pl-11 would be great.

I have a little data. Some of this isn’t an issue for the F1. Very bare bones A2A only. The ECM suite was simplified till the F2. I have some patents related to RBE2 and I have some specifications we can go by. We would need to do a full CFD and engine simulation for the flight model. From F2 on the Rafale uses a new mission computer I have a white paper on The F1 does not use this https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1996ESASP.375..111N Note the F2 standard changed a lot and early version is much simpler then late https://www.key.aero/forum/modern-military-aviation/97029-rafale-production-order-status?page=3 I have this manual from a Rafale F2 flight simulator that was developed by a SME. This project was ended for copyright reasons, this will have to be resolved either by no using the name Rafale (like the M2000 and Razbam) or paying a license fee, as some FSX Rafale mods have chosen to do. Manuel Rafale F2.pdf

If we can’t do a Rafale F2/F3 though it might not be a bad idea to do a Rafale F1 AND Super Etendard. One for ground and one for air cover.

Your adorable!

https://books.google.com/books?id=wLI9AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA4596&dq=f-15+a-7+ground&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjKjNj1sMz8AhXhFVkFHa7TC7MQ6AF6BAgEEAM#v=onepage&q=f-15 a-7 ground&f=false the USAF never did much in the way of meaningful training for air to ground but the capability was there. Only Israeli seems to have used it

Yea, I have the original though in Ukrainian which I’m sure ED has staff that can read it. https://studfile.net/preview/5383872/

Every air to air platform can be an air to ground platform at least once.

I know Aero Elite combat academy had a Easter egg scramble mission like this.

I posted a very detailed translated technical lecture on the N019 a few pages back. I don’t think it’s likely we’ll get a worse radar then that. There is only a single mode different between the Soviet and Warsaw pact N019 and it wasn’t used much in service. Т12 RLPK ENG.pdf

Wouldn’t mind an AI super hornet as a strike craft with the upcoming dynamic campaign.

Well at least you can get HARM on a fulcrum these days!