With the leak of there being an Indonesian and a Dutch Ah-64E, what would it’s armaments be? I can see the the JAGM-179A for the dutch, but for the Indonesians, wouldn’t they be stuck with the AGM-114Rs?
Or would they both just get the JAGM-MR?
In terms of gameplay, both nations competitive helicopters (more so for the Japanese TT) but in my personal opinion, it just ruins the uniqueness of the US TT. After years of waiting, the US finally gets a unique weapon system only for it to be copy and pasted to different nations in less than 2 months.
Copy pasting it to other nations is pretty lame, especially Japan which for which Indonesia isn’t even a subtree, that’s worse than Benelux which is an actual subtree, which is also still worse than actual users like Britain.
At least none of the foreign ones should have access to DIRCM, which would make the US one the best one. Also, the US one should have APR-39E, but devs absolutely hate the idea of improving APR-39 RWRs which they ahistorically gutted, and so my report was denied for basically no reason.
Also also, the US one should be the only one with acess to Spike (NLOS), they can make it even more unique right now by giving it proxy fuse ammo for the gun and limiting it to only the US one.
Yup, all APR-39s got destroyed and have such garbage target recognition that they act outdated like they’re analogue…AH-1Z should also have a more modern RWR, the APR-39D
“Digital” RWRs may be able to specify the specific Threat type, isolate a given contact’s Bearing, “in-range” cues and be able to direct other “Electronic Support Measures” (e.g. Hand-off to “Self-Protection” stores & cue Targeting aids, Jamming, Countermeasures etc.). and provide specific “Head-Up” Aural warnings (e.g. SA-6, 10 o’clock, low) & defensive / maneuvering recommendations to crew members.
An analog system basically should only be able to provide Bearing / Quadrant / sector detection, and Received strength / net audio pickup for a threat in a given band.
They’re gonna get JAGM-MR 100% because the JAGM itself is compatible with the Hellfire rack so the devs will just says the JAGM is compatible and give them that instead of AGM-114L.
Should they get JAGM-MR? No. It’s a US development not even fielded on US helis, let alone foreign countries.
At least with Spike, it requires different pylons so they can’t just give it to other AH-64Es.
Yeah, I saw it too. I’m so disappointed. I’m hoping they only give these helicopters it’s actual loadout rather than what the US has.
It just sucks overall because it disincentivizes players to play the US as a whole since what’s the point if all other nations are going to get what the US gets (even if it’s weapon systems are unique) but just at a later time.
yeah they should not get LDIRCM or JAGM-MR because neither of those have been exported for it
and to get stuff added for US vehicles you need proof they used them operationally not just of compatibility (and even then they probably wont add it see BOL for f15s, and LJADMS for f16c and f15e)
U cant compare a LMUR to a hellfire, but u can compare it to an agm179mr which lofts fyi. (I know the agm179mr is built off of the agm114 but ingame it’s so much better that it feels like it’s a whole other missile)
I’d be curious how it performs NOW because it was not always broken as it is now which is why people are complaining. Those stats are overall which could cover any wild span of time.
