Austrian OOB - J35 Draken OSD

DRG · #1 April 16th, 2007, 01:17 PM

An aircraft in this game "with NO A/G weapons whatsoever" is usless and will not be added regardless of contract delivery dates.

Also..... I deal with 92 OOB's and hundreds of thousands of bits of information in them. However, if I had every last bit of information at my figertips I would work for Janes and make more money with lot's less aggravation. Please explain what I'm supposed to make of .."these are Tranche 1 aircraft anyway"

??

Don

DRG · #2 April 16th, 2007, 01:18 PM

......AND when they will be fully operational.

JohnHale · #3 April 16th, 2007, 03:26 PM

"An aircraft in this game "with NO A/G weapons whatsoever" is useless and will not be added regardless of contract delivery dates."

Don,

This is almost certainly the case with Austria's Typhoons. Air-to-Ground weaponry (other than internal gun) will not be fitted for a few years yet.

"Tranche 1" means the first production batch, btw.

mr_clark · #4 April 16th, 2007, 03:52 PM

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DRG said:

An aircraft in this game "with NO A/G weapons whatsoever" is usless and will not be added regardless of contract delivery dates.

Also..... I deal with 92 OOB's and hundreds of thousands of bits of information in them. However, if I had every last bit of imformation at my figertips I would work for Janes and make more money with lot's less aggravation. Please explain what I'm supposed to make of .."these are Tranche 1 aircraft anyway"

??

Don

The Tranche 1 aircraft are the first production version which don't (yet) include the systems needed to use AG ammo.
They are, like planned in the design, pure fighters.

Marcello · #5 April 16th, 2007, 03:58 PM

"Air-to-Ground weaponry (other than internal gun) will not be fitted for a few years yet."

Could they carry dumb bombs, at least in a pinch?

JohnHale · #6 April 17th, 2007, 03:31 AM

Probably not, Marcello. The Austrians are going through a strong pacifist phase, and their Typhoons cannot even carry underwing fuel tanks: this prevents them being used "offensively".

mr_clark · #7 April 17th, 2007, 03:16 PM

As far as I know gfrom reading a few editiosn of Air FOrces Monthly the tier one Eurofighters can't carry any bombs. It seems the hardpoints are not the right sort.
Plus they don't even have software to launch bombs (Impact Marker on HUD and stuff), so the pilot would drop the things without any referencee marks, which wouldn't be so effective after all I think, and we don't really need a Typhoon 'bomber' unit in game

JohnHale · #8 April 18th, 2007, 03:39 AM

Mr Clark,

That is arguably the case for Germany, Italy & Spain. However, with the continuing delays to the project and the Jaguar's rapidly approaching OSD, the RAF insisted on early integration of an air to ground capability by BAe. Thus, the later production machines within Tranche 1 for the RAF can drop bombs etc.

mr_clark · #9 April 18th, 2007, 05:06 PM

The RAF aircraft will be immdeately overhauled to tranche 2 or later on even tranche 3 standard before being actually delivered to the RAF. (at least thats what AFM states)
It's unique for the RAF as they buy one of the largest numbers of EFs, for the moment only Germany is looking into a similar deal, the other customers want their planes fast first of all, so Austrian AF Typhoons will not quickly be AG capable.