It has the old hot rock type of IRCM. Not very effective against modern dual band missiles.
There’s a video of a Piorun (IR) shooting down a Ka-52.
Can’t post it here, but you should be able to find it if you look.
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100% success rate isn’t a thing in real life, this has to be taken into consideration. In war thunder its very close to 100% by code
Would be very interested in your source, only thing I’ve seen having an actual effect from DIRCM was a Wagner Strela-10 trying to shoot a heli only to have the missile visably lose lock and veer away.
There was another more recent one against what most likely was a stinger. I didn’t save it sadly but its probably possible to find by google. Missile completely went bellow the heli in a straight ish line. Definitely dazzled by the laser
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Yeah, in War Thunder Vitebsk is coded to just disrupt lock before the missile is even fired. (Which isn’t how Vitebsk works… but Gaijin declared it immune to IR… because… Gaijin.)
I’ll give it a google
IR missiles in game don’t track heat either… They track a center point on the targer (they can even track through terrain)
Haven’t seen it track through terrain, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
I just wish they would fix the IR tracking and CM to actually work like they do IRL- Dazzling missiles they’re aware of, while in flight.
Against 1 missile they can do pretty well, against 2-3, they don’t have the capacity to deal with them at most angles.
This has been a problem for years and I Gaijin doesn’t even acknowledge it. (Except to say “Immune to IR” in a community issue I can’t find anymore.)
(Oh and add the AH-64E Guardian which also uses a DIRCM)
They both have only DIRCM
Ka-52’ DIRCM doesn’t use laser (like Mi-28NM does)
I thought the top thing was ircm.
Dont they both use vitbesk. I know the ka52 has 2 dazzlers instead of 1
If you will show pic, I would say for sure, but most likely you saw flashing beacon
Vitebsk (or export name President-S) is name of onboard defense system equipment of which can vary greatly. For example: Mi-28NM (L-150 RWR, 1x Laser DIRCM, L-140 MAWS), RuAF Ka-52 (2x non-coherent DIRCM, L-140 MAWS), Mi-35M (L-150 RWR, 3x non-coherent DIRCM, L-140 MAWS).
Doesn’t have it in game sadly
Yes, it’s just a beacon
intresting, ive seen some brochures regard it as part of the dircm system, that threw me off
Would be nice if they actually modeled lights since night battles are coming back
Okay i go with it when atas and stingers can hit when u have ircm but the normal R60 for example dosnt have irccm so they hit exacly from 3 km so the ircm of the A129 is not working like it should