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Aginor Posted April 25, 2014 Posted April 25, 2014 Those look sooooo ugly. Please don't. :D DCSW weapons cheat sheet speed cheat sheet
Slipp Posted April 25, 2014 Posted April 25, 2014 Those look sooooo ugly. Please don't. :D I agree, don't do it VEAO. :P
Alicatt Posted April 25, 2014 Posted April 25, 2014 Those look sooooo ugly. Please don't. :D And it looks like it has shed it's load all over the apron :cry: Sons of Dogs, Come Eat Flesh Clan Cameron
Scrim Posted April 25, 2014 Posted April 25, 2014 I don't care if it makes it look ugly, please include it. Everything to keep me from being forced to be dependent on air to air refueling to loiter more than five minutes (especially since the tankers just love to start doing very slow turns, because apparently it's not hard enough when they fly straight and level) :P
Silver_Dragon Posted April 25, 2014 Posted April 25, 2014 2x 1500L CFT. For Work/Gaming: 28" Philips 246E Monitor - Ryzen 7 1800X - 32 GB DDR4 - nVidia RTX1080 - SSD 860 EVO 1 TB / 860 QVO 1 TB / 860 QVO 2 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Warthog / TPR / MDF
joey45 Posted April 25, 2014 Posted April 25, 2014 Damn, they're making it look even moer sexy... The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, here on the ED forums at 3 'o' clock in the morning, with my reputation. Are they mad.." https://ko-fi.com/joey45
Aginor Posted April 25, 2014 Posted April 25, 2014 Damn, they're making it look even moer sexy... You like big jugs, do you? eehhmm... tanks, I mean tanks of course. :D DCSW weapons cheat sheet speed cheat sheet
Pman Posted April 25, 2014 Posted April 25, 2014 Yeh they have been spotted around the place, although none in active serve yet that I am aware of Our model at present doesnt include these. Pman
howie87 Posted April 25, 2014 Posted April 25, 2014 Lol... Looks like a Typhoon tried to eat the dish off an AWACS.
joey45 Posted April 25, 2014 Posted April 25, 2014 You could say... It bit off more then it could chew..... The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "Me, the 13th Duke of Wybourne, here on the ED forums at 3 'o' clock in the morning, with my reputation. Are they mad.." https://ko-fi.com/joey45
Eddie Posted April 25, 2014 Posted April 25, 2014 CFTs can only be carried by block 20 aircraft (Tranche 3) which aren't in active service yet. The ability to use them in a physical change to the aircraft structure and fuel system, so block 1-15 cannot use them. They may be ugly, but for strike missions where you can't use wing tanks (Storm Shadow can/will only be carried/cleared on the centre wing station that carry tanks), they'll be pretty useful. Although unless VEAO are doing a block 20+ we'll not be seeing them anyway.
phant Posted April 25, 2014 Posted April 25, 2014 Typhoon starts windtunnel tests with conformal fuel tanks Bye Phant
Stano Posted April 25, 2014 Posted April 25, 2014 Can't help noticing they appear to come a little too far forward to gain access to main avionics bays... think there may be a little tweaking to come yet!!
Eddie Posted April 25, 2014 Posted April 25, 2014 Can't help noticing they appear to come a little too far forward to gain access to main avionics bays... think there may be a little tweaking to come yet!! Damn good point that, hadn't paid that much attention to them, but now you mention it. They overlap the AV bay doors by around 6 inches or so. Of course, that is only a model and they've never been fitted on an actual flying aircraft so we'll see.
Slipp Posted April 25, 2014 Posted April 25, 2014 CFTs can only be carried by block 20 aircraft (Tranche 3) which aren't in active service yet. The ability to use them in a physical change to the aircraft structure and fuel system, so block 1-15 cannot use them. They may be ugly, but for strike missions where you can't use wing tanks (Storm Shadow can/will only be carried/cleared on the centre wing station that carry tanks), they'll be pretty useful. Although unless VEAO are doing a block 20+ we'll not be seeing them anyway. When CFTs are mounted on a Typhoon, can they be removed? I mean, can they be added/removed depending on the mission?
Eddie Posted April 25, 2014 Posted April 25, 2014 Yes they are role equipment just like pylons, launchers, tanks, etc. although as they aren't in service and there is no data etc I wouldn't like to say how easy it is to fit or remove them.
SUBS17 Posted April 25, 2014 Posted April 25, 2014 They look good and significantly increase your range so you can carry more bombs. [sIGPIC] [/sIGPIC]
Stano Posted April 28, 2014 Posted April 28, 2014 Just thought, they'd better get a work round sorted for downloading the CSMU on aircraft or this is never going to work! (looks like the access panels covered up by the back end of the tanks!!).
Eddie Posted April 28, 2014 Posted April 28, 2014 Hmmmm, another very good point. I'm sure the designers have thought about such practical things though, especially when dealing with deployed aircraft and/or landaway's. :music_whistling:
Tango Posted April 28, 2014 Posted April 28, 2014 (edited) Is it true that they're going to scrap the Tranche 1 (and maybe some Tranche 2) airframes long before end-of-life in order to get the Tranche 3 updates into the fleet? Best regards, Tango. Edited April 28, 2014 by Tango
Eddie Posted April 28, 2014 Posted April 28, 2014 (edited) Is it true that they're going to scrap the Tranche 1 (and maybe some Tranche 2) airframes long before end-of-life in order to get the Tranche 3 updates into the fleet? Best regards, Tango. No. However the out of service date for UK Tranche 1 jets isn't all that far away, but that's down to the number of hours they've flown and fatigue life etc. We've flown considerably (at least a third from the last number I saw) more hours than the 2nd place nation (Germany) and more than double the Italian and Spanish. Although there are some talks of extending them a bit further. Edited April 28, 2014 by Eddie
TimeKilla Posted April 28, 2014 Posted April 28, 2014 (edited) "CFT's also free hardpoints for weapons or fuel tanks and only insignificantly increase an aircraft's radar cross-section." The fact we don't have any active aircraft carriers it might be worth it! Seen this F16? An Israeli Air Force F-16 from Ramon Air Base, Israel, moves into refueling position July 17, 2009 over the Nevada Test and Training Range during Red Flag 09-4. Edited April 28, 2014 by TimeKilla Adding more info :joystick: YouTube :pilotfly: TimeKilla on Flight Sims over at YouTube.
SUBS17 Posted April 28, 2014 Posted April 28, 2014 They also have them for Superhornets and the F-15SE has the ability to carry missiles inside them. [sIGPIC] [/sIGPIC]
Supersheep Posted April 30, 2014 Posted April 30, 2014 Re #19: What is an CSMU, if I might interrupt you? The PVC Pipe Joystick Stand How to thread
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