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  1. Which didn't work properly, hence cancelled from the design before it was put into production. Striker II will hopefully resolve that issue a quarter century later.
  2. Or maybe they simply make both available, or a mod enables it. Shouldn't be that diffocult.
  3. It was tested along with the APA and the later was subsequently selected. There were some problems with the Libelle, that's why it was discontinued, at least for the Eurofighter.
  4. The GPWS (TERPROM) is not specifically developed for A/S mission roles. It first and foremost provides ground proximity warnings and is a general terrain awareness tool, improving flight safety. As it had been on the Typhoon from day 1, it should also be part of the DCS EF module.
  5. Stick travel limits are asymmetric, but haven't the values in my head. Control laws switch between rate, AoA and g-demand dependent on airspeed and A/C config.
  6. The most obvious difference is the System Mode Display Panel for the MIDS NET and IFF INT / XPDR status indicators on the right glareshield flap. Next one is the LASER ARM switch on the left side console and the controls for the external lighting system on the right side consoles.
  7. Gentlemen, how often needs this to be repeated? Look at the screenshots and videos released so far, what can we see? 1.) German Airforce Eurofighters with tactical codes representing Tranche 2 standard aircraft. 2.) A Tranche 2/3 cockpit layout. 3.) The Meteor missile introduced on the Typhoon with the P2E capability standard, which is compatible with T2/3 aircraft. What has additionally been said by HB/TG? 1.) That the aircraft will be limited to AA at the beginning. Does it make it T1? No it doesn't, it simply means that systems functionality and weapons related to AG stuff will only be added after EA has started. 2.) That the capability standard reflected will be more a kind of "Frankenphoon", dependent on data/information availability certain system capabilities might reflect earlier, or later standards, in a combination that doesn't reflect any particular inservice standard. 3.) They may do other nations Typhoons, but I'm inclined to believe, that at least at the beginning you will have to live the the German variant with different liveries representing other operators. MARTE-ER anti-ship missiles are not integrated on the Typhoon yet either, images showing the aircraft on ground with these missiles doesn't change that. So no, MARTE-ER will almost certainly not be part of the HB DCS Eurofighter.
  8. You still remain constraint by the mechanical gimbal compared to ESA. For best performance you still need to trade scan volume, but you at least have the choice and that's not true for any other MSA I'm aware of.
  9. Doesn't matter, if the cockpit displays only support grey scale video imagery.
  10. The airintake configuration plays an important role. The same engine may perform quite differently in different airframes. Just take a look at the Mach limits of the F/A-18, Tejas and Gripen, which are all powered by the F-404, not always the exactly same variant though. Same is true for the F-414 in the Gripen E/F vs Super Hornet. Or compare the Mach limits of F-100 or F-110 powered F-15s and F-16s. Differences in aerodynamics apart, the intake configuration is important and makes a huge difference. Many people falsley believe that the S-curved intakes on the Typhoon and other contemporary aircraft are for minimising the RCS, but that's only a side effect. The primary reason is to slow the air down to subsonic speeds before it hits the engine compressor. Engine pressure characteristics can thus be maintained at higher Mach numbers without complex moving ramps, nevertheless airframe heating, but also pressure recovery characteristics limit aircraft like the Typhoon to around Mach 2. In another airframe this might be different, positive and negative alike. You can find a reasonably accurate Mach/Altitude envelope graph for the Typhoon on the airpower.at website. From here yoj can deduce what Mach numbers are eligable at various altitudes and you will find out that the graph you posted doesn't match at all.
  11. Looks ridiculous. More than twice the thrust at 10k, a massive jump from 8k to 10k and then down at 15k and another notable jump at 20k. That makes no sense.
  12. To my knowledge mode interleaving isn't possible. You can still select the AA Attack forrmat while the radar is in an A/S mode, but the ATCK format is not a plain radar format. The high scan rates enable Captor to utilise max. search volumes in TWS. Other M-Scans have typically constrained search volumes in TWS compared search modes like RWS or VS.
  13. Regard... Yes that's for the Captor-E. If your question was related to the stndard Captor-M it's 70 in Az and 60 in El.
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