British Weapon Systems - Technical data and discussion

As I mentioned in my last comment (replying to GunJob) archive documents on ASRAAM all give performance figures assuming the missile will be air launched (because after all it is an air-to-air missile). That means the only way you can really use those documents to bug report CAMM would be to make a custom CAMM and fire it from a custom plane as if it were an ASRAAM. And it seems somewhat unlikely that Gaijin would get on board with that testing methodology.

Once ASRAAM is added it can be reported using ASRAAM documents. You would hope that whatever improvements are made to it will filter back to CAMM, but that would require a level of joined up thinking which Gaijin seldom seems capable of.

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Ah yes, the people who said IRIS-T docs couldnt be used for the IRIS-T SLS because “they were different missiles” :D

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Be careful you two this could get flagged for insulting the great gaijin devs.

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I’m assuming the archive docs have solid figures on speed, burn time, range etc?

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It appears that the Curtiss Wright TDSS (turret drive and stabilisation system) was used for Rheinmetalls Challenger 2 LEP demonstrator (Challenger 3TD ingame), the same as used on the final Challenger 3.

This provides enhanced stabilisation for the gun and a more powerful turret drive, which likely means improved gun elevation and turret traverse speeds. Sadly it dosen’t give any direct data, however I was wondering it it’s worth creating a bug report for this to buff the Challenger 3TD’s turret traverse speed and gun elevation.

Data from CW gives this a max turret traverse speed of 57 degrees a second, but that is a generic number for the TDSS.

Is this worth reporting to get the gun handling buffed, or is it a waste of time without direct data?

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RAF F-35B’s arrive at RAF Akrotiri;

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When did the RAF start operating B lightnings?

RN and friends over Sweden when they went to do air combat training as part of a euro exercise.

Bottom photo is from 120B and BOL trials at Point M USA.


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Like 2018

The RAF?

Is it not the fleet air arm of the royal navy?

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Currently there’s only one badged Fleet Air Arm squadron operating F-35 (809 NAS). The rest are all RAF squadrons
Personnel at all squadrons are a mix from both services, but naturally with operations at Marham led by the RAF, and operations from the carriers led by RN

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It’s a joint venture I googled lol

The RAF use the F-35B: https://www.raf.mod.uk/aircraft/current-aircraft/lightning-f35b/

That is the one and only CRL/BOL photo I have ever seen, very nice find.

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Same, other than the Swedish ones on Gripen (that ironically still aren’t being used on Gripen ingame)
I see what we used was a bit more rudimentary, without the more blended/aerodynamic fairings. More or less just plugging the one from the existing sidewinder LAU-7BOL/LAU-138 into the back of CRL

Yeah was what I noticed too.

I’ve only ever seen the standard BOL.

Also @Gunjob

What would be the chances of getting the original extended wingtips and 4 X wing mounted amraam.

This was the original intent with Frs.2. The extended wingtip that were fitted and tested would have allowed the carriage of dual mounted AMRAAM.

However we scrapped the wingtips and the dual mount amraam was too unstable to be acceptable.

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Yeah that would be BOL-304, you can tell it apart from say BOL-500 at the “BOL” end of the rail.

BOL-500;

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BOL-500 in a MFRL;

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Where as the FA2 had the CRL/BOL which took the BOL304 end and added it to the CRL;

BOL-304A you can see here how the BOL-304A attaches to the LAU-7;

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And your photo matches the description of it being a BOL-304 modified into a CRL;

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So we just made it work lol.