No, the “system” in the Swedish designation does not mean multi-purpose “set”, like the RBS 55 is not a multirole missile.
Thanks for the clarification :)
What does the “System” in RBS mean then? Because the air-to-air missiles are marked just “RB”.
Edit:
In the 2014 AMKAT there is for example listings for RBS 55 and then further down there are several versions like RB 55A - RB 55B - RB 55C and so on. So i just assumed that the “System” ment that there were different versions.
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To launch a missile, you need not only a missile (ammunition), but also a variety of auxiliary equipment. When they are combined, they become a “system”.
In a nutshell:
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Got i, makes sense now ^^ Thanks for the explanation! :)
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Good to see they have kept the tradition of the banger music for their sales videos
Is there a suggestion for the Mk IIIC?
Not that i know of, haven’t looked in a long while though. :P
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Lmao, they don’t want to face the issues and problems, and re-group this thread into the no-one-noticed-sub-forums. Cheers, no one discusses and the problems won’t be exist. Really genius.
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Gaijin boutta make that bush camo (barracuda?) a premium
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If they do that fair play as its pretty broken if they give it the same properties as in real life
I highly doubt it. There are so many modern vehicles that use it that it would be really odd if they made the barracuda a premium thing, especially since it’s a very specific thing that gives a big advantage to vehicles that have it.
Honestly, just bump up the BR of that vehicle and it’s sort of solved (at the moment it wouldn’t be viable to give to any of the top tier vehicles barracuda at all), you trade stealth for facing better opponents. So you get destroyed easier if detected but have a much greater opportunity of flanking vehicles and shooting them in the side/back and taking them out. It could offer some interesting variety of gameplay for some vehicles.
If they make it actually functional as IRL yeah, but i can see them just adding it for looks with no change in thermals
Like with the Leopard2A4M CAN? That’s unlikely unless they have a specific variant of the CV90 that is so close to a tech tree one that it would be weird to add to tech tree. I honestly thought that that would be the case with the CV9035 premiums and that there would be a tech tree one first and the premium one would come with minor additions/changes and a non functional barracuda.
In my dreams and through my hopes i am praying for a CV9035 Mk.IV with Akeron and barracuda for top tier alongside a CV9050 Mk.IV without Akeron but with a 40mm grenade launcher instead (unsure if barracuda there would be to op or not, it likely would be).
As far as my understanding of Swedish missle systems go the missle itself would be called rb 58, missle and launcher together would be rbs 58
Although it’s sometimes a bit of a gray area, same for the rbs 70
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All the Leo’s could get it without any issue, the Finnish bmp-2md can get a similar netting (and it should)
And things like the 9040 wouldn’t really go up in br due to it
I think you underestimate the power of being practically invisible to thermal cameras XD Especially at top tier. If the entire enemy team is sitting on a hill and looking for your team and 4 tanks shining like torches crest the hill whilst you in your barracuda give of almost zero heat the enemies are not going to focus on you let alone shoot at you. so its not only the “less visible” part, it’s also the fact that there are other targets that are very visible so the enemy is going to gravitate towards spotting and aiming for things that light upp (tunnel vision, compare to the basketball monkey experiment if you have seen that one).
you wont be invisible to thermals, just have reduced thermal signature
also i generally dont even use thermals even at top tier, especially gen 1s
Things is, it is so reduced that it in practise might as well be invisible to thermals.
Thermal reducing paint on a M1A1:
Supposedly barracuda (different sources claim different things, but most say barracuda):
didnt expect it to be that effective, i wanna see the source on that
I realize that i should clarify (will edit above as well), the top image is thermal paint on an M1A1 Abrams, but you can imagine what barracuda is capable of if paint does that well Source.
The bottom image i’ve seen around a couple of times and most of the places say barracuda but i’m not entirely sure that it is exactly that, but again, the capability very much exists and i have seen videos of the actual barracuda in use, it is absolutely this capable (but for this one i sadly don’t think i can prove much more than a “trust me bro”). (general source though) I’ll see if i can find something better.
can you emagine night battles with it xD