No, they do not. But nonetheless, you’re still forced to use at top tier through lack of alternative.
As excited as I am to get my hands on and play my RAF Typhoon in air battles, three aircraft being added with 18 Brimstones a piece is just another game ruining horror for ground to endure.
I just hope these new SAM’s that were promised come ASAP in 2025. Between now and March is going to feel like an eternity of misery for top tier tank enthusiasts.
Good, jets at top tier don’t need to get another advantage on SPAA that is already over tiered and underpowered compared to the jets it’s supposed to face.
Also, enlighten me a bit here, why would EO tracking ping a laser warning? Wouldn’t that be beam riding stuff? As someone who uses EO/IR camera for years to track and find targets, I don’t see how EO would ping a laser warning system. It doesn’t use a laser, we have lasers to sparkle and designate on these payloads normally, but that’s not part of it, and they specifically are rated for things like class and range. They also have to be turned on, they aren’t just always lasing. So I don’t see how that sensor would ping a laser warning system if it’s using EO tracking.
I’m by no means an expert, but my understanding is that typically such a system uses a sight (usually thermals because it’s easier to pick out targets than with a visible-wavelength system, or a combination of various spectrums for more detail or countermeasure resistance) to track and determine the position of the target. But that only gives a 2-dimensional picture of the target, essentially what direction it is in. In order to calculate lead you also need to know how far away it is. So on most systems a laser rangefinder is used, pulsing periodically to update range information. There are other options like radar but those seem to be less common on ordinary FCS because that requires an entire new system instead of just using the vehicle’s already present sights and LRF. In fact something interesting is that this system actually is also used against tanks and not just aircraft, it’s known as a “hunter killer” system and is common on modern MBTs, IFVs, and other AFVs (like 90s onwards), using the same combination of thermals, LRF, and computer systems to automatically track and lead a ground target, some modern vehicles like the K2 will even automatically aim and fire the cannon.
So the system periodically rangefinds the target with a laser which should trip the LWR, a major reason why LWS are used in the first place. But again I’m not an expert so maybe my understanding is just flat wrong.
Romanian F-16AM can be more advanced TT variant, one equipped with AIM-9X and AIM-120C-7/8.
Although they can introduce “early” with AIM-9M and AIM-120B as premium and “late” as regular.
Imo Sniper can be an interesting premium.
It can also be F-16B from Italy or just some F-2000A variant.
A nation doesn’t have to be a su tree to have additions to trees though! Look at VRCC… that being said, it was removed, so it would indeed be inconsistent.
VRCC is a variant of Centauro. That’s why it’s in the Italian TT.
They often remove premiums, especially Italian, since they don’t sell well, but they usually come as GE or become temporarily available during some nation-related events, probably it’s more profitable for Gaijin to do it this way.
PS still sad that F-104S TAF was removed and people who would like to quickly grind to Italian Eurofighter don’t have a better option apart from AMX A-1, which is kinda bad in air RB, due to its high br. TAF is at least a pretty useful base-bomber)
Yes, Italy isn’t the “everything else” tree and there’s better options from the actual subtrees it has, Hungary and Romania, such as MiG-23s or MiG-29s, or best a LanceR.