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After checking up with my trusted AGM-65B, I can say they are not.
Lie effective range is near 12km which close to VT-1
Which can hit only who ignores RWR.
So good that looses lock on anything.
More like another boofieman.
Russia has 40% winrate and nothing changed tantrum still goes on.
Oh it can’t shoot down 3 helis in the game what a horror too bad that next update will bring more and with FnF weapon.
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Maybe it was Laser and IR. The new DIRCM has been added in a really fucky state.
I’m afraid not, as that not how laser weapons interact with game.
And I consulted the 65E, did not care.
Best SAM for years bud even after the tweaks it is still excellent, a good Pantsir player is a threat to even the new super CAS systems. It’s funny because what caused this arms race was Pantsir and Kh-38. No Kh-38 no need for IRIS-T, Spyder or any of the other new SAMS. If Gaijin had just had the throught hey maybe we should just remove this clearly broken addition. But no we power creeping and in a few updates time it will be Patriot and S-300s.
Adding 30SM without it would be more than enough.
New AAs were needed anyways as other countries needed something to counter the UFOs. I don’t think OTOMATIC is any good against Rafale.
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The VT-1 can hit at 12, but it bricks up past 8 and loses energy. The Pantsir bricks up AT 12. The effective range of most F&F weapons is 8 or less.
Many RWR cannot pick it up. Even more can’t detect the firing of the missile.
I have not experienced full locks dropping, only brief chaff scrambling. Even then, it’s bearable.
The BUK has already been shown hitting aircraft at 70 kilometers in testing. Even if we assume it can’t do that reliably, that still means half the distance outranges the new SPAA by OVER double. It is just so blatantly strong.
Only since the start of June. I’m fine with the BUK being added, but this missile is too much. If they give other SPAA better missiles to compete, fine, but they refused to give Israel a 40km missile because, and I quote, “submitted as a suggestion”.
Why is Russia allowed to have a radar missile on this level when others have theirs remain as unused suggestions while they’re currently at the bottom of 12.0 SPAA effectiveness?
DIRCM, as currently modelled, is completely fictional. Missile Sci-Fi shields do not exist. DIRCM can stop a single missile or two at once, not more.
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Spike is IR guided. It will be decoyed by Laser DIRCM.
I remember there were discussions about two types of guidance being completely scrambled by it, but I can’t remember what it was if Laser and TV aren’t affected.
I deleted my reply cause I realized that lol
IR of missile type, the circle, so the one that could be flared, and IIR of AGM type, the cross in a square, for example spike, that could not be flared. It works on both.
Does the system not work against a Laser if you could theoretically target the Laser seeker bombarding it with radiation?
Ah.
It doesn’t sound like double effective range.
What’s the range of Aster 30 ?
Well why you don’t have issue with Aster 30 ?
It is not that simple.
SALH seekers operate on different wavelengths than the IR systems, so LDIRCM will not work in that case.
For example, missile seeker operates in 3-5μm, while the laser designator in 1.06μm.
If it matches, there is also the fact laser designators are coded, so the DIRCM would had to either match the coding, or brute force itself.
So a short answer is no.
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I think the fact ASTER is limited by the 20km radar made it fly under most people radars.
It was, for a long time, able to effortlessly guide up to 18 kilometers without issue. That changed long after it was added.
The ASTER currently has a radar bug that makes it unable to see past 20 kilometers.
It’s bugged and unfinished. The SPYDER’s missile said 80 kilometers when it was added, but now it barely hits 20km. Until the ASTER can be properly tested, I cannot give any confidence in the answers regarding it. The BUK, as it currently stands, is capable of hitting at 70 kilometers right now on DEV.
I will admit that the BUK struggles at close range (within 2km), but most of the modern SPAA do and don’t have the same maximum range capability.
The reason for this race was the F-4C, M1 Abrams
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Good no way Gaijin can add that to make Helis immune then.