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I meant a version of the RB-04 and -15 that is used by the AI:

I think you may get the AI do use the wide/long/compact thing by placing target points appropriately, and then ordering them to use exactly one BK-90 for each strike. I thought the anti-ship missiles had a dedicated AI version that otherwise they can't use? Has that changed?

Eeeeeh fighter generations are badly defined anyway. Even within 3rd generation - is a 1958 USAF F-104A, with a glorified gunsight for radar and only two AIM-9Bs, really that similar to a ~1990 Italian Air Force F-104S with AIM-9L, Selenia Aspide BVR missiles, some semblance of look down/shoot down capability and on-board IFF? I would argue that the Mirage F1 is one of the most modern 3rd gen fighters, just like the Tomcat is in many ways the least modern 4th generation fighter.

To make a long story short, the Mirage F1 came from an attempt to fixing the Mirage 3/5s landing speed (which is inherent to a delta); one of the proposed versions was called the Mirage F2, and another swing-wing one was the Mirage G. The Mirage F1 was basically a lighter, less complex, cheaper version of that, and obviously if you base your design on some sort of swing wing you need to leave the pure delta concept behind. The reason why Dassault (and others...) went back to the delta wing design is the introduction of FBW. The delta wing has all sorts of advantages, particularly for transonic and supersonic flights, but those advantages are mitigated if you need your plane to be stable. With FBW allowing for relaxed stability designs, it's very attractive to go back to a delta configuration. It's no coincidence that most 4th gen high performance fighters designed from scratch with a full FBW system do feature some sort of delta wing (the F-16, Mirage 2000, Rafale, Typhoon, Gripen, Tejas, J-10, off the top of my head), and out of all those all but the Viper are either pure delta or delta canard (which to brutally simplify things is a refinement on the pure delta idea) concepts. Performance wise, it's hard to tell without flying it but I'd say it sits somewhere in between what we expect for 3rd gen performance (like e.g. the F-5 or Mig-21) and 4th gen. It's definitely not a peer of the Tomcat and Eagle because those were designed as bigass air superiority fighters carrying a long range radar, while the entire Mirage family is all about being light weight, relatively cheap but capable aircraft, much like the F-104, F-5 or F-16. In that sense, it's probably somewhat comparable to an early block Viper, except a bit worse (no FBW, less power available, etc) overall. Keep in mind that for the time, the Viper's BFM performance was sensational. edit: clarified the initial bit, turns out I misremembered and the swing wing was another design, but for similar reasons.

It's not really the same feature as the Tomcat, it's more user friendly and a bit better tbh (although it accomplishes the same thihng). Unlike the Tomcat, when you first lose your STT lock the radar automatically keeps guiding the missile over the extrapolated track, but it doesn't switch to a flood mode fixed to, say, the boresight of the aircraft (which is what happens with the Tomcat). You can choose to do that and salvage the shot with a HOTAS command (weapons systems cmd fwd if I remember correctly?), but you need to command that manually.

No, you still need to support until impact, it won't have any fire and forget capability. The patch adds ways to recover the shot if you lose your STT lock, but that is not unique to the 530 (e..g the Tomcat does a similar thing when you fire a Sparrow and I think also a Phoenix).

Sure, but it really is annoying that the pattern is always the same. We keep hearing about all the stuff the Viggen is going to get, and once it's time to deliver, time and time again, they do not come through. The Viggen doesn't even need much to push it to full completion, but they have consistently decided to allocate resources elsewhere.

It's literally in this thread on the 3rd page Honestly I'm not expecting anything substantial today. If they thought stuff was going to slip one month ago, it's highly unlikely it won't have slipped more in the meantime (especially with issues like the Tomcat's lighting being broken again...).

I think it's highly unlikely at best...it may have been an option if the aircraft had been introduced on time in the 90s, but since that didn't happen I don't see why the weapon would be integrated. That article is from several years before the aircraft even reached IOC.

Mostly flying horribly, with occasional bits of exploding on the ramp.

I don't know how the Thrustmaster MFDs work but if that's the case, yes, that's how it operates. Personally I find it odd to have to keep looking between my tablet and monitor, so I don't bother with the MFDs and just use the app for the UFC.

Yea, it's worth remembering that you will be able to press the OSBs normally, but you will not be able to see e.g. TGP/radar imagery through the app.

I think it depends on the specific case. If you're flying a relatively normal mission and more or less following along with your flight plan then sure, the NAV/ANF waypoints work perfectly fine. If you happen to be on e.g. some server where you don't get access to a flight plan that actually represents whatever target of opportunity you want to go for (and can't be bothered to type in multiple WPs because airquake), then the SPA method is the way to go imo.

Lock enemy ahead gets messy if Jester isn't done with IFF. Lock Ahead is more reliable. Having said that, I don't understand why he would go for something that's supposed to be out of the antenna scan.

Maybe TWS: Auto is centering the scan on the low bandit for whatever reason?

Also he tells you to do an engine mode test in the -A, but as far as I can tell that panel is only present in the -B.

I just had a look through the files. The IRIAF skins are, I think, in the Raven One liveries folder, rather than the Tomcat one. To have them in the -A all you need to do is copy the f-14b folder and rename it to F-14A-135-GR.

Which is also where Mover was stuck trying to rate vs the Hornet for a lot of that video.

"All weather" here is badly defined. Can it navigate from point A to point B and possibly intercept another aircraft? Sure. Can it hit some ground target with decent precision with no visibility? Obviously not.

This particular situation is not very easy to analyze because the Viper is nose down and trading some altitude for speed, so it's a bit tricky to just look up the charts. That said, the usual HAF -1 performance supplement at 15k ft, with zero drag index and a GW of 22000 lb (which is ~40% fuel, so likely a bit below where this fight happened since they had just taken off) shows that around Mach ~0.7/0.8 (around where Mover was) your available sustained G is like 6-7 ish, and if you're going to go above that you will lose energy. 9G is around Ps = -600. That is consistent with Mover being nose down in the turn - you are never going to hold 9G at 15k ft without trading some altitude for speed, and turning that speed into turning perfromance. To me the correct way to frame the question is - OK, going by ED's report, let's say that the FM is correct for Ps = 0. That doesn't mean it also is when Ps < 0, which is where the jet was after the first merge shown. It could easily be a case of "when Ps=0 the FM is right, but as soon as we bleed some energy, we end up bleeding too much" or something. We know for a fact the g-onset and instantaneous turn rates are not quite right after all. edit: edited the post because I found the performance charts with the GE engine

Who needs an Apache when I can fly a Macchino or (hopefully soon) Gina anyway!

MB-339 build submitted to ED for evaluation:

They also mentioned LGBs (but no self lasing), and that the F1M will have a wider array of weapons (so possibly Exocet, AS30Ls etc?).

This interview

Aerges said somewhere on YT that they would like to include Exocets at some point, so we're definitely getting anti-shipping missiles. Sea mine laying seems less likely since it would probably require lots of work on ED's sight (and idk whether they had that capability in the first place).