The problem with the Strela isn’t that it was too good. The problem with the Strela is that no other major nation had access to a comparable SPAA at that B.R.
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What planes at 10.0 are lobbing ATGMs from outside Strela range? This is a massive cope lmao. I see people using the Strela at top tier. It’s OP as hell, as standard for the Russian tech tree.
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Absolutely, but that would create an intense amount of crying from CAS/helis when they are no longer able to switch their brains off and fly in a straight line over the battlefield to not get killed.
Playing against someone that has the brains to remain at stand-off range in SPAA is an experience in frustration.
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I can shoot the F&F at strela from distance that it can’t do anything to me.
You know the A-10 exists at 10.0?
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Maybe the A-10? But that thing is slow and thermals have issues picking things up at distances where you would actually take advantage of stand-off ordinance. Under anything but ideal circumstances for the CAS player, one strela can effectively lock-out CAS.
To the point, no one complains about the A-10 being O.P.
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So you have a large, slow aircraft, with no optics, trying to guide in TV guided mavericks?
You have basically no experience in the A-10 compared to SPAA (your most played vehicle type). Spend more time in it and try using the mavericks “outside strela range” like you suggest, and then get back to me. I use the A-10A Late, and I can’t get a lock on anything outside strela range with the Maverick Ds…
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The strela is only regarded as OP because the vast majority of people who use CAS and helis in GRB are on the verge of a coma.
The overwhelming majority switch their brains off and fly straight towards the battlefield to bring themselves within range of systems which they would have the advantage of range over.
I genuinely do not understand the affliction that ails them.
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I have plenty of experience fighting A-10s in SPAA, and as I clearly stated which you have chosen to ignore and strawman another argument.
An A-10 at stand-off range at 10.0 is essentially untouchable by SPAA.
Next cope.
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This is somewhat ironic, given you have very little playtime in CAS or Helis, but a huge amount of time in SPAA. SPAA are the only vehicles that you consistently have 2+ KD ratios in too.
I mean that’s just objectively false.
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You know that after firing the ATGM You can fly outside of strela range?
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So you concede you have to fly within the Strela range to get a lock/launch?
ULQ is making progress! Baby steps!
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I have 2+ K/D in plenty of ground vehicles that aren’t SPAA.
And you know how I know that most CAS/helis are braindead?
BECAUSE I play a lot of SPAA and I have seen examples of ones that are actually smart and the vast majority who are not.
I mean that’s just objectively false.
And now you’re just simply lying, come on.
Next cope.
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What is a maximum distance that steel can lock on?
You can say that about any vehicle type. I also see idiots in SPAA who can’t hit anything.
You actually don’t have many vehicles with 2+ KD. Strela and Stormer HVM are the two that jump out.
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You’re looking at about 5km for optical for the strela, less if weather conditions are cloudy/foggy.
Clearly you didn’t look very hard,
Ironic you bring up stats considering your average K/D is so much lower than mine though.
Maybe you shouldn’t throw stones in glass houses.
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I have done 8 km kills with A-10
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Yes, but the time it takes to acquire the target, get a lock, fire, and get out of range means that stand-off ordinance isn’t as effective as you’re making it out to be on the A-10 platform. A lot of the time targets don’t even render in until you are just outside of the Strela’s range, and you aren’t even guaranteed a kill, even if you manage to hit the target. No one seriously complains about the A-10’s capabilities. Strela on the other hand has been controversial for a while.
Also, if A-10 can reposition, so can the Strela. There is way more cover for SPAA than there is for CAS.
I know you can use ATGMs from 8km in the A-10, I’ve fought a handful of smart A-10 pilots in the stormer who were flying outside of my reach and smacking people with ATGMs on the battlefield.
SlowHandClap is just a poor liar.
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