the F117 is at 8.7 air with JDAM, GBU 10, 12, 28, integrated targeting thermals and laser designator. I dont see why the B52H couldnt get its share of JDAM and laser guided bombs and maintain 8.7 air and maybe 9.3-10.3 ground just like the f117.
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100%, Rather have a lower BR early variant of the B52 that only uses dumb bombs at around 8.7 while the B52H variant gets an implement of guided A2G-Fire&Forget around 10.0 with radar, ECM, proper radar aimed tail-gun that doesn’t wait till the plane is 800m behind, but a bit further than that.
I can only wish in due time, I guess they threw the B52H together and didn’t have the resources to make more variants to diversify weapons, BR, etc.
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at 9.3-10.3 it gonna get intercepted by SPAA with missile.
The funny thing is they would have to do the opposite thing to the tu95 and add something like the tu95 ms6 with its guided munitions
Not if it goes high enough (plus ECM when they finally commit to that) but it definitely shouldn’t be untouchable
Not gonna see ECM for a while, plus you are basically just going to meet OSA… at that BR your gonna see quite alot of SALCOS SPAA.
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If you even have get within 8 kilometers of the battlefield as b52h can use a few different AGMs and you would be right about naval because it can carry harpoon
10.3 the longest range Spaa is 10km Osas, if it’s uptiered to 11.3 in matchmaking, i think the Tor-M1 12km range is the highest if I recall.
Personally, I sideclimb to cruise at 12km regardless, they will struggle to hit you :)
Got to fly a little more like a strategic satellite lol
Even without ECM, you can always bomb-toss GNSS guided bombs and that way you can for sure stay outside the max range of any Osa.
I think it would be pretty fair, because to not die to an Osa or Tor-M1, you are flying such high orbits that you can’t really react quickly and re-position yourself to best drop the bombs, since the B52 struggles alittle at 400kph at 12km, the turn radius is defo the entire ground map.
Which is good because then you can’t spawncamp the enemy spawn the way that the MQ1 and other drones do.
As for the Tu95m, IDK any of its weapons or systems it carries.
Which will get intercepted by sm sv but whatever. Gnss bombs maybe gnss cruise missiles would make it somewhat close to strike jets and usa “fighters”. While not being completely broken due to fact that any movement negates your weapons. It will be bombs we have rn but without having to line your cow right on target.
Nobody is asking for some secret mobile phone which plane commander can use and cast 15 death rays from space while sitting at airfield. Just something to make those bombers less painful.
As much as I wish them to add it but why don’t gaijin just add the B52J?
Yes TOR is the longest range but how fast does it actually climb???
b52j isnt out yet its a WIP upgrade that is on going plus the agm 86 was retired in 2019 so only h used it
Maybe gaijin can add another version of the B52H but in the TT. They probaly can name the one we got in the event B52H (Early) and the one in the TT B52H(Late) like the A-10s
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That would work too
The thermal suite on our B-52H is for navigation primarily, not targeting afaik.
Yes the on board one but iirc it can use sniper and litening for GBUs, and conventionally armed AGM86C/D use internal GPS all of which is compatible with the 52H
Yup, our current B-52H can get AGM-86C but when it comes to all the other things (JSOW/JASSM/JDAM/Etc) sadly we’ll have to wait for another variant.
It could be a late/early split definitely
The one they use in game was retired in 2008
Well in game what we have is a Pre-91 model since it still has the tail gunner so, kind of firm on the date unfortunately… but yeah I’d like a B-52H “Late” or just a B-52J down the line.