Not even that, the velocity imparted by the kick motor provides more than enough speed to allow it to stay at it’s fired altitude before the motor and flare kick in to begin guidance.
In some ways it is, overall their abt the same. What limits the desert warrior is mostly its ammo, it never used m919 to my knowledge which is why it doesn’t get access to it. Its lower profile, can stop and immediately fire its missiles, better armor, modeled composite, faster, better reverse are what make it better.
The bradley is overall better because it can use it’s missiles hull down. The desert warrior really has attrocious depression on it’s launchers and overall worse forward mobility, depression angles in general and worse firepower.
I don’t think that is worth the useless armor and composite armor.
One is an infinitely small target because it can play hull down, the other has to pretty much expose it’s entire tank a lot of the time to use ir’s ATGMs.
Seriously, you should see what I’m trying to tell you here.
Only in incredibly specific locations due to the missile drop from the tube, if this was not the case it would be a different story, but as it stands, from the commander’s sight, using TOWs from behind a ridgeline is extremely hit or miss without a lot of preparation put in prior.
I’ll be real, I cant think of a single time the depression on the M3A3’s launcher has done anything but screw up my aim when doing a short stop, I would love for it to have a smaller max depression because in most cases since it’s unstabilized the thing just bounces all over the place as I try and quickly deploy the launcher, further exacerbating the launcher deployment causing issues.
While gaining vastly better overall mobility, dont write off that reverse gear superiority, having an even middling speed reverse gear is better than what a number of transmissions in game can accomplish, even moreso a full speed reverse gear like the DW’s.
Don’t get me wrong, the reverse speed is good, but imo I would pick the better gun depression and worse reverse of the M3A3 any day of the week over the -3° depression and better reverse of the desert warrior.