Could be related to this:
https://store.gaijin.net/story.php?title=War-Thunder_Thunder-Tactiks-Pack
Given Storm Shadow is a Anglo-Frnech cruise missile, its entirely possible that AASM use the same seeker as found in the Storm Shadow, or at least maybe a derivative of it (though different manufacturer)
Scalp and Stormshadow all werent for semi stationary
that was only taurus capability
Wait, there is a pack like this?
newly released earlier today
oh
Not sure if this has been pointed out by others, but this actually proves that the 20km seeker range in WT is incorrect.
If they had to test if the missile can find the target or not (once it gets within seeker range), through image correlation, this means the seeker isn’t tracking the target before or after launch, at 16km.
The seeker range is probably no more than 8km, if not less.
Thats the reason for the whole debate.
We have sources that state the Seeker of the IR missle only activated 1.5km from the target point.
So the whole missle is massively wrongly implemented
Has it been reported?
yes.
As of right now would propably act like a worse penguin missle
If those newer results wont even turn it worse,
Since its likely not meaned for moving targets at all, but for stationary targets and adjusts for gps mistakes and or jamming
Care to share a link?
no link, internaly done, straight to the devs
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So make it 81m :)))))
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I’m all for realism but have to say I don’t love the energy being used by both sides to keep trying to nerf weapon systems and airframe. If this change goes through the Rafale ends up with as poor CAS options as Typhoon.
Leaving the domination of the Rusfed to continue.
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What’s really funny, most of the sources used to report the AASM were provided by the French dude in his attempts to nerf the Brimstone, would be rude to not make use of them
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Its not exactly like the laser AASM are bad…
The outlier once this bug report goes through is the Kh-38MT, and I’m starting to have a sneaking suspicion its IIR seeker is similar in function to the AASM IR tbh (beyond the fact its never even been used in combat)
Im about 60-70% sure of that, but I havent found a smoking gun like what would be needed to get gaijin to make it a more reasonable PGM ingame.
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To be clear, not saying there’s anything wrong with this.
Competition helps in improving the game.
Meanwhile …
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Since Gaijin doesn’t seem to want LOAL outside of laser weapons, either they already know about the working of the AASM and decided it would be like that for the sake of balance, or they didn’t and it’ll get slapped with an ackowledged but not actioned upon for the state of balance.
If these changes were to go through, they’d become pretty memetastic as far as air goes for striking airfields…