In which case others will have far better chances to hit a target.
Are you dyslexic?
Mach 0.9 (or faster) and never getting closer than 5km? Not that much better.
Apparently.
Two 9X would not even come close to the A2A performance of 8, let alone 16 TY-90s
But the AH-1Z is american, and american helis aren’t allowed to be effective at anything
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For those who are against the idea of the AIM-9X for the AH-1Z.
Perhaps another slight upgrade to the AIM-9M-4 Sidewinder (current in-game) by replacing it with the later block AIM-9M-8/10 missile instead?
It would just have better tracking against more modern infrared countermeasures, new missile audio tones for the pilot, some visual changes to the forward hangar material and its cager assembly (to match F/A-18E/F environment requirements), and that’s about it.
Everything from the G overload and rocket mortar performance would remain the same.
I personally think that the AH-1Z would still be a good balancing platform to test AIM-9Xs at least before the current or later blocks of the F-15C/E, F-16C and F/A-18 Hornet, or even the F-22 or F-35 come officially to the game with theirs in the future.
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These supposedly also expanded the overload to 35G single plane.
aim-9x on ah-1z would be balanced because kinematically it should be roughly equivalent to 9M, and seeker shut off + fov has been in the game for a long time on much better missiles and missile platforms.
Ka-52 and mi28-nm, or even the Z-10 have superior Air to air capability than a AH-1Z even with 9X replacing the 9M.
I’m okay with adding it, and honestly the 9X looks cooler than the 9M because of its cut wings.
@Smin1080p_WT thoughts?
Igla is amazing, but vikhr is superior anecdotally
Debatable. ATAS is superior side and rear aspect because of speed and range, and 9M is only good for aircraft coming in front aspect while within close range.
Majority of helicopters will be engaging from the sides of the battlefield, and will more often face jets coming in side aspect, and that is where the ATAS outshines the 9M in majority of cases
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And it wouldn’t be half as much of an issue if the 9M has its actual front aspect lock range. so you could actually fire it before the jet is already flying past you.
9X just became functional in dev. Its basically an angrier 9M with an actually good seeker.
I don’t see why it shouldn’t come on the AH-1Z, its not that scary ( plus it smokes to apparently?)
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Welp I tried I guess the devs don’t want to add it right now to the ah1z (DEV) Ah1z should have Aim-9X // Gaijin.net // Issues
they just want US helis to suffer
‘‘dev’’ lets add 5gen msl but only for spaa
Idk, i manage to kill many planes with stingers, actually many manpads have much better range than aim-9 launched at 0kph, Aim-9 are good only if you launch them from 100+ kph and you only have 2 of them, so Aim-9X wouldnt even be that dangerous bc they have less range than TY-90 or maybe same at max. It really wont change much.
in a vacuum? no, but in practice you get 2 aim9ms which have worse irccm.
and worse range
true that, i forgot aim9m fired from stationary dont have much range
aim9m right now also has wrong range it should be more than 9L not same