Im not entirely certain how many, its either 4 or 8, but certainly not the 16 Hellfires it has. But either way. Vikhrs already nearly outranges a lot of SPAA. ADATS can just about hit something at 10km which is the same range as the Vikhrs.
Pantsir is 16-18km range and Hellfire is barely 8km.
Once all nations get a Pantsir equal. For britain perhaps the Supacat HVM with ASRAAM, then we can look at longer range AGMs for Helis. Additionally, all remaining nations really should get FnF. if the USSR has one that is 8-10km range, then that would be fine. But should come alongside the AGM-114L as the Hellfire is arguably the weakest AGM on a heli at top tier at the moment, (only really beaten by how buggy spike is) and Hellfires barely work half the time because of how buggy they.
Hellfire is 7-8km max. (and is very slow compared to Vikhrs so usually takes about 50% longer to reach a target at 8km than the Vikhrs does to hit a target at 10km)
They could always add the Kh-38MLE if the LMUR is off the table, however this weapon was supposedly only ever meant for the Ka-52K/M. Wouldn’t be a Gaijin issue.
The Vikhrs and Ka-50/52 were so totally OP that they single-handedly killed Heli PvP. Even after all the nerfs, the Ka-52 is still considered one of the best top tier helis in game and the new damage models for helis was fairly focused at nerfing the Ka-52. They are still one of the strongest helis at top at the moment
Soviets still have some incredibly OP and under BRed vehicles like the 2S38, it is probably the most requested vehicle to get nerfed and again, was the lead reason for the new light tank damage models, which did nothing. Last BR change it was the most requested vehicle to move by far.
Pantsir is still by far the strongest SPAA. No nation can reasonably fight one, especially in helis.
ADATS has a max range of maybe 10km, but usually more like 7-8km. Patnsir is more like 18km max but 14-16km normally. Most aircraft cant even detect a lock.
Until the addition of the Leopard 2A7V, the T-80BVM was by far the strongest top tier tank and is still massively too strong. Its ERA was not that strong IRL and it has an uncanny ability to just ignore direct hits to the ammo rack.
Su-25SM3 with the KH-38 is by far one of the strongest CAS in game at the moment, KH-38s were not needed. At all. No SPAA stands a chance vs them except maybe the Pantsir.
Please, dont play the “soviets are nerfed/weak” card. They aren’t, they have the third best ground nation right now easily. Go play Britain, Israel or Italy and then come back and complain
I don’t disagree that critical thinking tends to stop when discussing USSR top tier but in this instance he is just wrong, the LMUR is not needed and the Vikhr is disgustingly good