No.
It won’t add any new dimension to the AH-64’s which is the issue is that they are lagging their counterparts with no edge of their own, It would probably be a step up for performance against light vehicles and converting near misses / oblique hits or damage to kills more often than it does currently.
But it really requires a complete overhaul of the guidance, and even then the fact that it requires the retention of LOS until it goes terminal is the issue considering the quantity and performance of threat systems.
As an immediate stop-gap solution the AGM-65 would be an option, that provides F&F capability since Gaijin are so against the addition of the -114L.
In that there are also the “paper” IIR Hellfire or follow on with the AGM-176 (, -169) & -179 as future options and the Mavericks are Electro-Optical / IIR, not MMW so dodge the issue.
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Maverick in game too bad for helis. It can’t hit target at 5km. Despite the fact that it does not move.
Yeah i question how that could work
Even if i loft it on a hovering harrier it still cant reach a 5km target because of how slow it is
Not even a 3km launch with a loft will hit either it falls short at 2.20km when i launch it at 100m altitude
The only distance i managed to get a hit was at 1km with a very aggressive loft
if i fire it without lofting at all it just falls to the ground so the manual loft is a hard requirement if you use it while hovering
So i cant imagine how a maverick would work on a helicopter if it cant even work from a hovering harrier
Mavs would be cool but i doubt even if they fix them you will get more than 6-7km range out of them because reasons
Gaijin won’t ever fix the Hellfires regardless of the bug reports offered. Can’t have their precious T-series tanks getting slapped around by it like the dog tanks they really are, after all.
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