WIP shots of the FRS1 SEA harrier

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[frosen]

Nice! :thumbup:

[shagrat]

Hell yeah! That will be interesting...

[bies]

Great cold war classic hardened in the heat of battle.

From the times when everybody was ready for round 3 in Europe.

[Extranajero]

You'd better go through with this because I have already bought a real radar controller for a Sea Harrier, and I can't think of anything else I could use it for :D

[Captain Orso]

There's something about knowing that when these aircraft took off from the Hermes and Invincible and from numerous FARPs on the Falklands, it didn't just stem from the fanciful idea of someone sitting in their hobby room thinking to himself, "kewl".

[71st_AH Rob]

Looking forward to Flying this on the new Falklands map

[Bogey Jammer]

This is a very interesting variant. I hope it will be easier and quicker to make than the AV-8B

[Hawkeye_UK]

Great thing about this if modelled correctly will be the Blue Vixen radar, it was very capable for its time and formed the base development of the typhoon radar and combined with the Amraam will allow for BVR.

[Lordzarj]

Yep, Blue Fox radar on the FRS.1 rather than Blue Vixen.

 

Expect AIM-9J/L (AIM-9M post-Falklands), 1000lb dumb bombs, BL.755 cluster bombs, 2in rocket pods, 30mm Aden cannon, possibly Lepus flares.

 

Sea Eagle is a possibility if a post Falklands SHAR is modelled as are twin rail Sidewinders increasing the load from 2 to 4. WE.177 nukes seem unlikely...

 

Pre-Falklands era SHARs had no defensive chaff or flares, unless Razbam model chaff stuffed behind the airbrake and released by extending it. These were added during the conflict, air dropped to the Task Force and then fitted. One other Falklands improvisation was stuffing the contents of an jammer pod into one of the Aden pods (losing a cannon) although it’s not clear they were used operationally.

[Conroy]

Good news, but what about the Dagger or Mirage III? Falkland - Malvinas without the Argentinians?!:no_sad:

 

Edited December 24, 2019 by Conroy

[Kula66]

Great news on the Sea Harrier RAZBAM!

[BIGNEWY]

Off topic posts removed

 

Please stay on topic here "WIP shots of the FRS1 SEA harrier"

[Galm99]

Awesome stuff!

 

Will it be capable of having the nozzle attached to conduct AAR?

[Lordzarj]

In theory it should but only Razbam can confirm. They weren’t mounted that often so it should be a crew chief/loadout option.

 

We need a Victor to tank off though....

[westr]

If I’m honest I would only want an FRS1. 1 because it’s the aircraft that saw active service in the Falklands. And 2 in my opinion it’s such a pretty jet yet the FA2 was so ugly. It’s amazing how different the changes made the two aircraft look. I’m sure the FA2 was a very capable aeroplane also having amraam capability. But I loved the old sea harrier and missed it when they went to the FA2.

[Hawkeye_UK]

I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but as far as I know they are just modelling the FRS.1 version for now, not the FA 2 that had the Blue Vixen radar.

 

I would like to see the FA 2 alongside the FRS.1 in DCS as well though.

 

You are indeed sir the bearer of bad news i was hoping for a late 80's model re the FA2 not the early 80's FRS1. I guess the hint is the falklands map, that said they are including Mt Pleasant airbase so strickly speaking we could have the FA2.

 

I rather suspect, if this is indeed the case re no FA2, its because the Blue Vixen radar was the base for the typhoon radar development of which obviously data is not available and the systems cannot or should be modelled.

[Hawkeye_UK]

I have just spotted the picture title - FRS1 Doh! If i had read this and not just looked at the pretty pictures i would not have wasted peoples reading time with my posts lol !

[sirrah]

Wow those are exciting screenshots! I didn't even know the Sea Harrier was on the radar.

 

Is it safe to assume this will be a brand new module and not a free addition to the AV8B? :lookaround:

 

Either way, great to see the UK getting represented a little bit better :thumbup:

[Hatefury]

Is it safe to assume this will be a brand new module and not a free addition to the AV8B? :lookaround:

 

I would say it's very safe to assume that the FRS1 and AV8B are very different aircraft.

[enigma6584]

I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but as far as I know they are just modelling the FRS.1 version for now, not the FA 2 that had the Blue Vixen radar.

 

 

The SHAR FRS.1 had the Ferranti Blue Fox radar and entered service with the Fleet Air Arm back in 1981.

[Ozone1]

I hope the Sea Harrier is gonna come with one of these...

[Pikey]

Wow those are exciting screenshots! I didn't even know the Sea Harrier was on the radar.

 

Is it safe to assume this will be a brand new module and not a free addition to the AV8B? :lookaround:

 

Either way, great to see the UK getting represented a little bit better :thumbup:

There's literally nothing in common with the AV-8B, the FRS1 cockpit is steam punk, with a radar scope on the right and that radar was max 20nm for air (ish) and very good for ships. It shares nothing with the AV-8B, I have no idea about the flight model, but it's scratch development, rgith down to the airframe.

[ngreenaway]

[SGT Coyle]

I likey likey!