SAMP/T as effective as SM-SV
nice one
Less ammo, for buildings sized trucks x3 (almost impossible to hide on maps this small, who would have thought)
Can’t target stationary helis (rotor blade doppler not modelled)
Subject to multipath
Less energy than SM-SV at 20km on a 100km class missile
No guns
That thing underperforms so hard in game, mostly because of problems related to all fox-3 missiles, but also because Gaijin decided it would be a good idea to give it the drag of a washing machine with parachute attached to it, not to mention a lack of lofting, even compared to shorter range (IRL) peers like CAMM-ER
Here : base pantsir (S1) vs Aster-30 at Pantsir’s max range
SM-SV not available in the missile thing from Gaijin… for some reason
Same terminal velocity of about 510 m/s
And here compared to CAMM-ER at 40km
2/3rd of CAMM terminal velocity, more flight time.
Aster-30 is dangerous under 20km, an area where most SPAAs are dangerous, and Pantsir SM-SV even more so.
The only AA with long range performance is Buk and somewhat type03 (although far less)
IRL Aster-30 would be too, being a bit halfway between a patriot and medium range SAMs like IRIS-T (Which Type 03 or Buk are)
With Gaijin modelling ? It’s a radar guided IRIS-T, but with an insanely long battery time
It will limp to 90km in game, but not anywhere as fast or as high as it should
Buk compared to SAMP/T has :
- can’t be killed in one shot
- higher explosive
- fast during most of its flight time
Pays for it with : - Slower scan (matters little because of instant refresh PESA on launchers)
- VLS that have to rotate
Yet somehow some russian mains still considered it underwhelming, so what conclusion are we suppose to draw here
