Yes.
Spoiler
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Thank you
I’ve been testing the Martels on the Buccaneer S2.B
They seem very strong now, the guidance feels a lot better, they are much more manuverable and I’m yet to have a miss.
The MITL guidance mode means you can just fire them in the rough area of a target (eg. a tank) and then guide them from the missile, you can easily get direct hits on tanks from upwards of 20km away with your plane being completely out of the range of air defences.
The MITL guidance is a bit buggy atm, for example when you enter the missile guidance mode the plane seems to react to your inputs despite you controlling the missile and the missile camera is sometimes a bit wobbly. However, as far as I’m aware these are just bugs that will be ironed out.
Overall, having standoff missiles with extremely large warheads is amazing, you no longer need to get within a few KM to get a tracking lock on a tank. Just fire the missiles roughly where you want and control them into the target by selecting it when the missile is closer. If the original target you fired at dies or hides, you can easily just aim the missile at a new target so firing at long range doesn’t feel like a gamble.
Additionally, the missile automatically decreases altitude after firing, making it a lot harder for enemy SPAA to engage, which is pretty nice.
The same applies to the PGM-500s and 2000s.
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Yeah, im actually looking forward to running the Buc S2B a lot more in GRB.
I dont think i’ll be using PGMs much in GRB, but might actually start getting taken into ARB/ASB.
Even the 500lb GBUs on the Jaguar GR1A is gunna be a handy change
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britain 11.7 is gonna be kind of amazing next update
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The Martels on live are pretty useless, I’ve tried using them but their lock range and accuracy is awful.
Both of these appear to be fixed on dev, so I will certainly be taking it out as well
Yeah, I dont think ive ever actually gotten a kill on live (granted only taken it out about a half dozen times) I found quite often the missiles just got shot out the air by MGs.
Just fearing the BR increase now
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I can echo this sentiment.
Got 2 on its introduction. Gave up though.
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Glad Im not going totally crazy then :D
do you know if the raf phantoms could get any guided munition?
Well not now that they’re good we can’t
Yeah… unfortunately true
Any ARM options available to Gr7? Would be useful to it.
“Changed to Suggestion”
Guess that’s a no then 😿
Flame has so far reported:
AS.37:
Tornado GR1
Sea Harrier
Harrier Gr1
Buc S2B
ALARM:
Typhoon
Hawk 200
Jaguar
Lynx
Tornado F3
Shrike:
Harrier GR3
AGM-88:
F/A-18F
F-111C
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Yeah… probably
While gaijin copes over the L27 reports, I the datamines have been released so here are some of the UK ground changes that weren’t in the changelogs (some may have been):
(BUFF?) CAMM-ER: Orientation phase of launch went from always occuring at 5 meters to now occuring at 5 - 70 meters depending on target distance (May assist a bit with long range shots, as terrain will be less of an issue)
(BUFF) Challenger 2 (All) and CR3TD: New trunnion model added, this provides a general increase in mantlet protection from around 360mm to now around 460mm on the lower/middle part of the mantlet. The mantlet can now stop 3BM42 in areas, which it previously couldn’t.
(BUFF) Challenger 2 (Base variant): Armour hole around turret ring fixed, it shouldn’t incorrectly overpressure from low caliber HE there anymore.
(BUFF) Churchill Mk.7: Gun depression buffed from 12 to 12.5 degress.
(BUFF) CVR-T Striker and Scimitar: Top forward and reverse speeds increased from ~81kph to ~87kph.
(VISUAL) Warrior: Shell ejection animations added.
(BUFF) 75 mm Q.F. Mk. V Cannon: APHE shell added, we all knew this, but they have also quite significantly reduced the drag coefficient too from 0.5 → 0.379 which will increase the shells penetration at range.
The 0 meter pen is a tiny bit better, but at 1000 meters the pen has gone from 78mm to 84mm and at 2000 meters from 59mm to 68mm. The shell also obviously maintains velocity better as it travels, making long range shots a bit easier.
(BUFF) Centurion Mk.10: The roof MG now functions, previously it was purely there to look nice
(BUFF) AS90: Neutral steering added
(NERF) AS90: Shell velocity reduced from 940 m/s to 810 m/s
(NERF) Vickers GBT 155: Shell velocity reduced from 940 m/s to 684 m/s
(Air and Naval changes not included)
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Wait, 500lb gbu? Why havent i heard about this.