Martel AtA montage
Yeah i know but its still designed for anti shipping and it would be nice to use it more as designed, I dont see the point of taking 3 missiles for tanks in air RB when you can take 20+ bombs for that.
But taking 3 missiles for a big reward for sinking a carrier or battleships, thats something I would see as worth it, especially in simulator.
Its more of a general thing, like the german event tornado mfg has anti ship missiles that are useless and really only serve to make the plane unique for the event.
Martel TV on hardpoint Buccaneer S.2B it might be Air-to-Ground missile or short-range anti-radiation missile (ARM) ?
That would be so damn cool to have
Martel TV is a Anti ship missile, but can be used against other things. Martel AR is a different version
Well no precision weapons are never particularly useful in ARB. But in GRB it will very potent.
And then there is the Kormoran which isnt useful in either
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It also isn’t useful against its intended targets anyway. It misses most of the time because it aims for the center of the Arcade lock box… Which on most ships is…empty space between the smoke stacks and bridge
Yeah, but steps can be taken to change that :)
That was it’s main use in service, but apparently it was originally conceived with air-to-ground use in mind:
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yet its suggested targets are all static xD
Well it can hit moving ships 🙂
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If Gaijin considered that a limitation there wouldn’t be Kh-29T in the game either. Those are likewise only intended to attack ships and infrastructure targets IRL. They’re not ATGMs
I hope player can control the martel，Instead of another pgm
Strictly speaking, PGM could also have an option for man-in-the-loop control via a datalink pod in a similar manner to what we’ll hopefully have on Martel
Unfortunately though, the pictures we had of Tornado fitted with PGM didn’t have the datalink pod equipped, so it’d be a decision for Gaijin to make on whether that was extended to Tornado’s PGMs or something only for the Mirage’s that are equipping them in the French tree.
Examples of the datalink pod on UAE’s Mirage 2000 and F-16 Block 60
If they really wanted to push it, (Post WWII ) remote control ordnance could apear as low as 8.7 with the A-4E, with the Walleye I & II ERDL.
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It’s be fun, sure but maybe not the most balanced of additions.
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What about a pair of skyhawks, one Australian and one from New Zealand.
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To what degree of accuracy, hitting a 10,000 tonne ship at 10 knots is different to hitting a 10 tonne SPAA at 30 knots.
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I would arrive so hard if they did that.
But remember the tec vid, Gaijin HATES Australia
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It is as accurate as the man guiding it can be with the crosshair.