Antelope air defence system update needed

[Machiah]

Hello.
Please review the specifications of the Antelope air defense system, especially its firing range, which is not 6 km maximum but 9 km.
Is it intentional to have reduced the Antelope’s interception capabilities?
I hope for an honest update in the next few days to recalibrate the characteristics of this atypical and reliable anti-aircraft.

Antelope
Portée de tir effective 9 km

Antelop Tien

[Necronomica]

[Machiah]

There’s something new guys.

[Necronomica]

What do you mean?

[Machiah]

How come with the Antelope, I can cut SU-34s, Rafales, Mirages 2000s, F-15s and F-16s in two with great ease while with the Torm1, HQ17 or Pantsir I can hit 1 every 10 games…
Modders have offered players high-performance combat aircraft, they must offer high-performance anti-aircraft.

I can assure you that with the Antelope, I wreak havoc…

[Necronomica]

I have no idea what you are talking about or what you want to achieve, i just gave you a screenshot of what sources are needed to make a report on historical inaccuracies. If you think something in the game is wrong then make a report with sources as listed above.

[Machiah]

I have already done it, I have not received any response from the moderation. Can you help me or intervene with the people concerned. Well in advance, thank you.

[Necronomica]

I do not have that ability, if it has been a long time you can privately message a Technical Moderator and ask. You can find them here: Technical Moderators. Make sure to provide a link to the report so that they can find it.

[Machiah]

It’s done, I sent a message to the moderator Profile - Abrams_X - War Thunder — official forum

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[MorkoKaiser]

@Machiah

How come with the Antelope, I can cut SU-34s, Rafales, Mirages 2000s, F-15s and F-16s in two with great ease while with the Torm1, HQ17 or Pantsir I can hit 1 every 10 games…

Regarding this part - Antelope has fire&forget missiles which do target tracking completely by themselves as soon as they leave the rails, it’s error-free (no shaky hands ;) ) and it’s done from point of view of the missile.

TOR-M1, HQ17, Pantsir, ItO90 and similar systems feature semi-automatic missile guidance where it is crucial that the operator does corrections, also guidance is performed from point of view of the launcher, not the missile. Of course, you can select and lock a target to fire upon and leave the rest to target tracking system, however it will work only for aircraft flying in straight line or helicopters (due to their slow speed in comparison to fighters). It’s a tradeoff - you have better range, better missiles at the cost of guidance method ;)

Striela-10M (DE, UK and USSR trees) or Type 81 (C) (JP tree) will have similar performance to Antelope, all of them feature missiles of similar performance with IRCCM and dual-channel tracking.

[Machiah]

Please fix the weakness of the anti-aircraft. There are several bugs on HQ 17, especially in the target fixation where you have to press several times to hook a plane.
Another why a correction, when you have players who allow themselves to do loops in the air, avoiding several missiles one after the other, we can clearly see that the anti-aircraft is crap or that it is not up to standard
So I ask you to upgrade the anti-aircraft or move on to the S-300, Iron Dome, Patriot Missiles.

We have been swimming in full delirium on War Thunder for a few months.

[Necronomica]

@Machiah

Another why a correction, when you have players who allow themselves to do loops in the air, avoiding several missiles one after the other, we can clearly see that the anti-aircraft is crap or that it is not up to standard
So I ask you to upgrade the anti-aircraft or move on to the S-300, Iron Dome, Patriot Missiles.

This is already planned, here is an anser from the Game Director:

@magazine2

Q: In Ground Realistic Battles, top attack aircraft are capable of dominating ground vehicles for the most part. Are there any plans to do something about this in 2025?
A: According to our data, the balance at the top ranks of ground battles is noticeably shifted towards aviation and helicopters, and this balance has become even worse with the introduction of top aircraft this year. The situation where aircraft can attack tanks from a safe distance with impunity makes gameplay more boring for aviation and less fair for ground vehicles, a similar situation is with helicopters equipped with long-range fast ATGMs, or “fire-and-forget” ATGMs.

To counter these types of threats, more powerful systems are needed that have the ability to fire at several targets at once and a wide search sector in both azimuth and elevation. The most advanced SAM system currently presented in the game only partially meets these requirements, so we’ll move towards heavier systems for all nations, including those components of which are located on several chassis. Of course, we’ll have to solve the problem of controlling these types of SAM systems, but we’re already having thoughts on the matter.

In turn, there are plans to add new capabilities for aircraft. And while we do not consider anti-radiation missiles (ARM) a priority and necessity, more advanced capabilities of ESM from on board an aircraft, i.e. more accurate determination of the active radar position, are in our fairly close plans.