I’ve not even researched them yet.
Its a tactic I might try if we get Brimstone 2s, but most fights are well outside of the range of Brimstone 1s for me in Sim
TWS or TRK. As long as the missiles radar takes over, it wont go for your radars track ever again.
yes, against heli and slow moving targets, only in GRB
Tried shooting a drone (the one with the ordonance) as they’re slow as all hell but it missed barely ( because the drone is slim) and it still doesn’t have a proximity fuse even though there’s a report out for it but you should be able to take out a frog foot if it comes toward you and it’s actually pretty maneuvrable.
It’s a real pain not being able to defend yourself against incoming aircraft or other helicopters. It should be added for parity with other helicopters for balance. If the team isn’t willing to do that, give PARS its historical proxy fuze, the bug report was accepted and hasn’t been added in almost a year.
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This horse has been beaten for years now, the tiger won’t get that turret or the 4 extra pars for that matter unless everyone else gets some god heli and germany gets left in the dust, even then probably not. That turret is literally like asking for the IRST on the current german eurofighter, even more unlikely as apparently the chin mounted turret was only ever proposed, no tests or anything were made afaik.
I have no idea from where you got info Brimstone got GPS guided capability in warthunder right now.
Im guessing he just means you can IOG at a target using ‘CCRP’ rather than necessarily needing line-of-sight like you did previously thanks to the new map target thing. You can fire fairly accurately at a general location without needing to expose yourself and then just pop-up when you need to
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see, i can get it to work against AI planes in air rb but so far no luck against other players
Question about the MAW:
Does the MAW detect and track enemy missiles in range currently to calculate if the missile was shot at you so it only uses countermeasures if needed (like it’s in reality) or does the MAW just register there is a missile in a proximity sphere around the EF and dumps countermeasures?
I have the feeling it dumps countermeasures when a missile gets in range even if it just flies past you kilometers away wasting much more flares and chaff than needed.
current war thunder implementation is just “IR target nearby? ALARMMM”
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It’s IR it reacts to anything in the proximity of it’s detection zone including other flares.
It’s a mess right now
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Brilliant implementation… So it’s just a proximity fuse for the CM launcher currently…
It wouldn’t be that hard to implement that correctly as WT since a few patches knows when a missile got fired at you and when you evaded it. So just get that missile, check if it’s in range and field of view of the MAW and then drop CMs. If it starts chasing CMs or gets lost (missile evaded) stop dropping. Done. This would work for IR/UV/RF MAWs the same without going off from flares or stray missiles.
Not a real simulation but it would be a kind of “hotfix” with a proper simulation implementation coming later on.
The real system uses Radars and would give you the calculated impact time of a missile shot at you.
I just want them to filter flares and maybe friendly missiles as a stop gap for PD MAWS
the jet irl will even give directions on how best to defend against the missile aswell!
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The reports are already in about maws, when it’s modeled correctly (maybe in about a year) it will be able to tell the time to impact of a missile and type of missile (ir or radar) and throw out countermeasures accordingly. Some downsides would be that it can’t tell exactly where a missile is which wouldn’t be such a big downside anyway.
no proximity means that you have to make a direct hit so is hard to get a kill
my recomdation is try head on
One big reason this left a bad taste in my mouth is that the UK and Italian tech trees were given jas-39 as a supplement to their tech trees while germany kept the f4f ice as thier top tier jet, and when the Eurofighter was added, the German one is the worst, despite the pirate irst being a lru that Germany kept the right to purchase and is only needs to plug into the attack computer and replace the panel. Why gaijin is so insistent on not giving the German ef the pirate irst, even as a modification is very odd, as I doubt any players would be angry over one nation getting the ability to be on par with the other nation eurofighters.
Hu?
You do know that Sweden and Britain had nothing for an entire year but still had to fight things like the German Mig-29 in aircraft that had notable disadvantages in every single aspect, including loadout.
Germany only had a minor disadvantage with the ICE for 6 months. Unlike the F3 and Viggen D, the ICE had equal or superior weapons to every other nation on a platform that was perfectly usable.
Also, Germany’s Typhoon is technically massively overperforming compared to IRL. IRST is a tiny thing that is irrelevant to game balance 99% of the time. Especially when you consider that the German Typhoon should not be armed with smokeless Aim-9s, Paveway IVs or Brimstones.
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