Yeah, usually always at least 2 runs and finding the loan guy at the end with only a Gen 1 Tpod can sometimes be a pain in the butt
Theyre gonna just C&P the stinger seeker and call it a day lol. No way they make it an actual IIR seeker with a good track rate, no way they give over the shoulder capability to them either when the russians just barely clawed their way into those kinds of capabilities in the last couple years (if the R-74M2 is even in production lol)
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Im waiting for ASRAAM to be defeated with a single flare vs an AB target.
tbf, it shares the seeker with the AIM-9X, and that thing got defeated by an ol’ rustbucket Su-22 and crappy soviet flares…
Early ones did share the same seeker not anymore
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What is the explosive mass of the Brimstone? Won’t it be terribly weak compared to other current ordnance such as Hellfire?
Yeah, wasn’t the change cuz of the US being their usual dickish selves and putting export restrictions on the missile (to limit competition)?
That and the seeker got upgraded over time
They are both HEAT warhead (most hellfires are HEAT) their damage to a tank should be very similar
It appears to have 50% less warhead mass but I am not sure if that is the actual explosive mass for brimstone (6kg vs 9kg on hellfire 2)… it could be the warhead weight of ~6kg and not solely the explosive mass. This is why I was inquiring.
Maybe I’m wrong, but Gaijin may consider that 50% less mass = 50% less performance if the explosive types are similar.
Seems to me it is just an inferior hellfire alternative for planes.
Atleast it will be a nice missile to counter helis. The Brimstone is said to be W band by MBDA, and helicopters’ RWRs don’t have coverage in that range. So it won’t be detected by RWR, but MAWS should pick it up, although nothing you can do to counter it maybe besides hiding behind a building
Less explosive mass clearly means its inferior :/
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Just ignore the F&F capability, all weather capability, Triple Racks on a fixed wing aircraft and Equal (At worst) penetration to a later model AGM-114
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Range as well
Yeah just ignore everything because itz got lezz dakka
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Not worth mentioning the tandem warhead, or the way the missiles can talk to each other so they each go for a different target when fired in a salvo. FAHW variant? Forget it.
Or the fact Brimstone has 12km range fired from a heli and 20km+ fired from a jet, while Brimstone II is 40km+ fired from a heli and 60km+ from a plane, while hellfire sits at a measly 8/11km depending on variant
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9 and 6 are warhead masses, not explosive masses. When it comes to explosive mass inside them they are 100% classified, so you wont get any detail legally. There is also a possibility that 9 and 6 are not real values, and true are classfied but we wont know that.
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Obligatory posting of this video:
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theres a vid kinda like that, except its russian tanks in combat getting slammed, ill see if i can find it (granted im not sure if it was ever confirmed to be brimstone, the strike pattern was similar iirc)
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