Ghostkiller
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@Hydration will you be in Alexandria (if you live there) when Naval Power Exhibition starts?
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The puzzle of photos of the 16 thousand Egyptian pilots on the Emirati Mirage fighters
Can our Mirage 2k carry Mica and Scalp?I think he meant photos of F-16 Egyptian pilots but mistakenly wrote:
لغز صور طياري آلاف 16 المصريين
Supposed to write F not Alf or Alaf.
Those are really sweet looking and a lot more advanced than the old ones in the EAF. There's that one pic where the crew is working on one of the single seaters and the panel that holds either the cameras or the black box or something of that sort was open and it looked like they had just put the box back in.
Then it has that very interesting pylon on the front right of the fuselage with what appears to be a light on it and probably carries the Damocles targeting pod or some other one. They also are upgraded to carry the SCALP-EG or in the UAE's case, the Storm Shadow/Black Shaheen and even the latest MICA IR & ER, just like the Hellenic Mirages 2Ks.
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It would be very interesting if they end up with the EAF, especially after MBZ said Greece was a strong contender. He said they have something like 100 of them?
Can our Mirage 2k carry Mica and Scalp?
He means Al F-16.. HaHaHa!I think he meant photos of F-16 Egyptian pilots but mistakenly wrote:
لغز صور طياري آلاف 16 المصريين
Supposed to write F not Alf or Alaf.
Those are really sweet looking and a lot more advanced than the old ones in the EAF. There's that one pic where the crew is working on one of the single seaters and the panel that holds either the cameras or the black box or something of that sort was open and it looked like they had just put the box back in.
Then it has that very interesting pylon on the front right of the fuselage with what appears to be a light on it and probably carries the Damocles targeting pod or some other one. They also are upgraded to carry the SCALP-EG or in the UAE's case, the Storm Shadow/Black Shaheen and even the latest MICA IR & ER, just like the Hellenic Mirages 2Ks.
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It would be very interesting if they end up with the EAF, especially after MBZ said Greece was a strong contender. He said they have something like 100 of them?
But can we add an BVR like Astra if we got ToTs?Nope, just the older Matra Magic missiles and no SCALPs. They're just too old, wouldn't even be feasible to upgrade them which is why the EFT is very appealing as a replacement.
But can we add an BVR like Astra if we got ToTs?
I doubt it. Not unless they change a large portion of the avionics as well as the radar which was the original first radar installed in the first batch of Mirage 2Ks in the Thomson-CSF Radar Doppler Multifunction (RDM). Later in 1987 with the next batch (which was built after the ones for the EAF) got the Radar Doppler à Impulsion (RDI) built by Thales with 150km range which is much improved to the original RDM and also allowed the fighter to fire the Matra Super 530D missiles which were much better and longer ranged than the older Matra Super 530F which is what the EAF has IF I'm not mistaken. I'm pretty sure that's what is in them.
So to be able to fire any of the much newer and recent medium to long range missile, they would need to change the radar, the look-down-shoot down modes, and the entire related avionics package to support the radar and the missiles. Not worth it when it's that old. The engines are also the older SNECMA which had a better version in the Mirage 2000s after 1987. Much better to replace the aircraft IMO.
So in a dogfight, our Mirage 2K can get f*cked sa7?I doubt it. Not unless they change a large portion of the avionics as well as the radar which was the original first radar installed in the first batch of Mirage 2Ks in the Thomson-CSF Radar Doppler Multifunction (RDM). Later in 1987 with the next batch (which was built after the ones for the EAF) got the Radar Doppler à Impulsion (RDI) built by Thales with 150km range which is much improved to the original RDM and also allowed the fighter to fire the Matra Super 530D missiles which were much better and longer ranged than the older Matra Super 530F which is what the EAF has IF I'm not mistaken. I'm pretty sure that's what is in them.
So to be able to fire any of the much newer and recent medium to long range missile, they would need to change the radar, the look-down-shoot down modes, and the entire related avionics package to support the radar and the missiles. Not worth it when it's that old. The engines are also the older SNECMA which had a better version in the Mirage 2000s after 1987. Much better to replace the aircraft IMO.
So in a dogfight, our Mirage 2K can get f*cked sa7?
Are there even any photos of M270 with unit markings and Arabic numbers drawn on them? I always saw them only with license plates but never any markings. Something like this:
Notice how much worn out their paint is, showing underneath green colour.
I don't think the URAL-4320 with armoured cabin and M-46 howitzer was accepted into service, never seen it outside of this one exercise. MoD likes to reuse footage of it into newer videos though.