Hi,
I was reading up on the Brimstone missile on this website http://www.army-technology.com/projects/brimstone/ and it has a curious sentence “The small size and weight of Brimstone allows it to be integrated onto a wide range of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft for example L-159, Hawk and F/A-18.”
It seems a rather bizarre set of aircraft I could have understood it if gave the example of helicopters and fighters in service in the RAF but it seems to randomly pick two trainers and a strike fighter. Does anyone know if Brimstone has been or will be integrated on these aircraft or if there is any significance to the selection of example aircraft.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: Also if anyone can tell me the not to exceed speed for the launch platform (helicopter/fighter) when it fires Brimstone I would also be grateful.
By: nocutstoRAF - 30th July 2010 at 19:41
Thanks – I thought it was strange selection of planes and wanted to know if they reflected future or potential customer’s requirements.
By: bgnewf - 30th July 2010 at 16:31
My understanding is that Brimstone is only currently integrated on Tornado GR.4 and Harrier GR.7/9 aircraft. I am not even sure if the UK has integrated it upon their Apache AH.1’s or not.
As discussed in these forums previously, integration of a weapon like this say on a L-159 for example is not just a matter of “plug and play”. Aerodynamic testing, aircraft stability, seperation testing, investigation of the weapon use envelope and getting the bloody things (missile, sensors and aircraft) to talk to one another correctly is a surprisingly costly and time consuming bit of business.
The list of aircraft sounds like marketing bumph to me.
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July 30, 2010 at 4:14 pm