Looking at the performance of the IRIS on the Elde id confidently say: both
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Watch them give the ASRAAM and/or IRIS-T seeker-shutoff in its current iteration without any other hardening.
Same feeling with the current MICA situation. Every time I see them (Rafales), they’re just doing the same at a distance (like doing chores). And now there are even more Rafales which ruins, for example, Arcade mode completely as they can spawn planes with MICA-EMs up to 6-8 times a match.
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Your AMRAAMs don’t hit them at distance as they have more then enough time to notch and if you get closer than 15 km you get a MICA to your face while they’re still flying in a perfect notch. You can’t notch as good due to the MICAs much smaller 7° notch angle (instead of 15° like any other ARH missile) and have no chance to fire back from your own notch as your weaponry doesn’t allow it, even if your radar does. In a frontal engagement your chances are even worse as MICAs don’t miss due to TVC and uselessness of chaff opposed to your extremely sluggish AMRAAMs and AIM-9s, while the latter one is spoofed by a single flare in front-aspect. You only have a chance if you catch them off-guard somehow but otherwise, not really a fair chance.
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Dont forget that they are defending against AMRAAM with likely large calibre chaff and you are probably defending against MICA with BOL
I mean, do we really think that they are not just going to copy paste the IRIS T from the Elde onto to the EFT? Gaijin doing extra work instead of just copy slop would be insanely out of character
That’s an additional factor which could also explain why the MICA-EM is able to relock so extremely frequently in cases it somehow lost its target.
Don’t understimate them: They can put effort into things if you want to “balance” (break) things for some people under the pretense to “implement them more realistically as asked by the community”. This behavior is known from relationships as “weaponized incompetence” with the aim to not ask them to do the stuff they f*cked up anymore → less work for them in the future and they have a “precedent” why to not do that or fix it anymore.
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At the moment, its too soon to say.
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Ah yeah the IRIS T SLM 4km lockrange move
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