In general, from the testing me and @Mongaroth33 did, it is not really a problem at all. 38MT launches past 10km are unreliable at best and the missile suffers from flight model and tracking issues. On top of this, the missile can be intercepted quite trivially (even a salvo of 3). Same when it comes to the ML which might be the better option to use.
just watch out for the radar display and you should be fine as SPAA
Well I am used to it but when I was <200 games in it I was struggling to find anything alive at >5km distance so I have sympathy for people when they complain about its poor zoom as its quite difficult to adapt to it.
That’s only viable if you’re using mavericks, and at the moment the damage of mavericks is awful. You don’t see pantsir missiles coming at long distance, so it will hit you at 12-15 km if you’re not actively dodging to make the missile bleed energy. Better off staying at treetop level if you’re going in with gbus imo.
Even with a Targeting pod it’s hard to get 20km kills with a maverick. But zero chance without a targeting pod.