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2 hours ago, LetMePickThat said:
I've tried to, and failed.
The Scud is using a dedicated .scheme file, and it has been quite hard to get it to work with longer-ranged missiles. I'd love to find a way to solve the problem, but no luck so far.
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with these things. However, I hope you can find a way out of this issue.
What about shorter and smaller ballistic missiles, were you able to work with? Like the Iranian Fateh would be really interesting stuff.
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I'm not sure whether this is the appropriate Topic to address my question.
Do you intend to include more ballistic missiles? I mean, you're working on the S-300 and SAMP/T, which have the potential to compete with BMs. So, could we expect more ballistic missile assets other than the standard Scud-B?
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4 hours ago, QuiGon said:
But did he mean the German Typhoon, that they will do first or did he mean later variants of other nations?
According to my understanding, it will be added to the versions of other nations. It makes no sense to include PIRATE in the Germany version.
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12 hours ago, Southernbear said:
From what I remember Gero saying, we'll start with Captor-M and then once the Germans get their first Captor-E systems in 2023-24 they'll try to add that into the plane.
Do you recall where and when he stated that? because I'm wondering if I didn't listen very carefully when he said this.
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This is an old photo for the Spain Eurofighter...
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16 hours ago, QuiGon said:
That's a very odd picture. The bomb on the photo looks like the old british 540 lb GPB, which was used on the Jaguar and Harrier as the text says correctly and phased out when the Harrier was decomissioned. It would be weird if this old bomb, which is no longer in service, had been mounted to a Typhoon, but maybe they did that during testing/development of the Typhoon? The picture doesn't show much. I'm not even sure if it's a Typhoon at all or maybe a Jaguar or so.
The bomb drawing on the other hand shows a typical american 500 lb Mk-82 if I'm not mistaken, which is a totally different bomb and has replaced the british 540 lb bomb in RAF service.
So in short: This picture doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me
16 hours ago, TLTeo said:Yeah I honestly can't tell whether the aircraft in that picture is a Typhoon or (more likely?) just a Jaguar
Okay, let's try to simplify things here... according to the slides, this photo is part of a set created by RAF, although I'm not sure. Why is there a Mark 82 bomb in that slide? I'm not sure why, but it may be a mistake. However, I believe the shot is for the Typhoon. and there are a few reasons for this.
The typhoon centerline tank is encircled by the landing gear doors, creating a very tight area for the fuel tank (which is why the 1,500L tank was not fitted at the centerline station). Furthermore, look at the pylon; it's the same pylon, same signage, and similar typhoon markings in this photo.
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On 8/9/2021 at 10:39 AM, QuiGon said:
I see, thanks, but like I said: They don't carry unguided bombs, but they have them in the stable to add Paveway laser guidance kits to them and thus turning them into LGBs.
What about this photo? you can notice the landing gear and the centerline fuel tank. it's a typhoon
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6 minutes ago, QuiGon said:
According to your own quote they did only carry Paveways:
Then the quote says, that it is a stablemate of the 1,000lb unguided bomb, whatever that is supposed to mean. The Paveway is a 1,000lb unguided bomb with a laser guidance kit attached, so in order to have Paveways you need to have unguided bombs, so you can turn them into Paveways. It says nowhere, that they carried them without the Paveway kit as unguided bombs.
What's the source of this quote?
The source is the Typhoon and Tempest special edition of AirForces Magazine.
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On 8/1/2021 at 5:30 PM, QuiGon said:
German Eurofighters don't have general purpose bombs. Same is true for all Eurofighters except Kuwaiti Eurofighters, which are the only ones to have GPBs on their Eurofighters AFAIK.
Are you sure about that? yeah I know that the Kuwaiti Eurofighters will be the first Eurofighter to integrate Mark bombs, but the UK's Eurofighters carried 1,000Ib unguided bombs during operations in 2011.
QuoteIn the spring of 2011, RAF Typhoons were deployed to Gioia del Colle Air Base in southern Italy to enforce a UN-mandated no fly zone over Libya in support of NATO’s Operation Unified Protector. Part way into the air campaign, RAF pilots employed the jet in an operational air-to surface role for the very first time. It was a good demonstration of Typhoon’s ability to conduct bombing missions in a combat situation. The weapon employed throughout the campaign was the 1,000lb Enhanced Paveway II laser guided bomb, stablemate of the 1,000lb unguided bomb – the only two air-to-surface munitions in the RAF’s multi-role Typhoon arsenal at the time.
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20 hours ago, Wizard_03 said:
Happy there is going to be more game play options, but I can definitely see this turn into a pandora's box, of "hey the aircraft just got this new thing last week, can it be added to game" or "hey there's a promotional image of some future technology being demonstrated, can we add that too?" Or "Hey they hung this weapon on a static display of the jet, so it should be in the game too!"
There's a good reason Most Devs and ED go with specific time frame/Operator, It limits development number 1, and it adds real world constraints to the aircraft number 2. What my concern is; this is going to turn into, is some super, mega, hyper, giga fighter, that is basically a concept of what the designer would like the aircraft to be able to do, rather then an actual eurofighter you might encounter in the wild. In real life, countries have budgets, systems get dropped, weapons don't get implemented. You are never going to find a jet that can do everything the designers intended for it to be able to do. They don't exists in a vacuum like they do in DCS. Also By setting an expectation of time period/operator developers can have a solid reference point for roadmap, feature lists, and completion criteria. But by not setting any expectation for us end users I worry this could become,
Less representative of actual modern air combat, more airquake/war thunder, alt history simulator.
That's my Hundred cents. lol Hopefully HB/TG can strike a good balance and give us something close the real "Eurofighter Experience" That's really what I'm interested in, the actual day to day, 9 too 5, reality of being a pilot for one of these monsters. If that can pull that off, I'll be happy. I think they achieved that with the tomcat so I'm optimistic.
I believe these types of questions are quite reasonable in the case of the Eurofighter Typhoon, as it is a multi-national fighter that is adding more capabilities over time, and its capabilities vary from one user to another within the same time frame. Furthermore, it is concerning that we are working on the German version as the baseline, which is much behind the UK's Eurofighter in terms of modernization.
For example, in operations against ISIL, the UK's Eurofighter Typhoon employs stand-off weapons such as Storm Shadow and low-collatroal damage weapons such as Brimstone.
We know that the Eurofighter Typhoon has evolved into a more focused fighter on A/A roles, but even in A/G role largely attributable to weapon stations in the Eurofighter It can carry out some A/G and anti-ship missions better than some fighters that were originally designed for A/G, such as the French Rafale, making it a very interesting platform whether in A/A or A/G roles. So I think the guys' decision not to commit to a specific variant, tranche, or time frame was a wise one.
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As far as I know, the German Eurofighter Typhoon does not use the IRST/FLIR system known as " PIRATE ". Also, it's operating IRIS-T
instead of ASRAAM. Moreover, if I recall correctly, the developer stated that they intend to focus on the German version while also working on other versions as liveries.So my question is whether we should expect the PIRATE sensor and the ASRAAM missile to be added during the EA stage or later, or whether we should not expect such systems/weapons to be added at all? because we expect full A/A capability in Early Access, and both PIRATE and ASRAAM are major systems in Typhoon's A/A Capability, if not in the German version it's primary weapon/system in the UK, Spain, and Italy, as well as an exported version for Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar.
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On 7/24/2021 at 5:52 PM, RG2021 said:
It will also generate (heated) debate to people who think the EF will be “unBaLAncEd”, when being balanced isn’t the aim of DCS, realism is. I’ll also like to say that F-18 pilots will finally have to learn how to dogfight in order to get a kill. XD
No developer, in my opinion, should be concerned about "Unbalancing" issues. When I buy a model, I expect the developer to have done it perfectly, or at the very least to have made an effort so that we can enjoy a realism experience.
The server host is the person who should be concerned with balancing.
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Yeah it’s the first RAF Typhoon combat kill but not first Typhoon combat kill.
the first Typhoon combat kill was committed by RSAF Typhoon, actually they shot down dozens of them during the operations of Restoring Hope in Yemen.