I find playing 11.7 and just using the Tornado Gr1/Harrier T-10 in downtiers appears to be 100% effective for me at the moment :P
I like the Typhoon but when it’s Russia and Germany on the same team. man you just cannot use any British CAS.
Try 10 x PavewayIV loadout for typhoon and go SEAD mode. It’s fun, it works, it pays off. Just got a nuke just by covering my enemies in SEAD.
Low approach, pop up at 8-5km, spray paveways, rtb repeat.
About IRIS-T, it’s missiles are going absolutely crazy if you’re within 4-0km radius. Preflare, flare, make it lose all of it’s energy before it properly started gaining speed. These new systems aren’t that good to be honest, at least with IRIS-T you can completely ignore the launchers.
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Its before the watershed :P
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I will give it a go, do you just mark the SAM location and dump all the Paveways on them without using the laser for guidance?
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Why bother? Non of the multi vehicle systems are moving out of the way in time.
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True I’m so used to Brimstones just missing if the laser loses LOS for a second.
Just be thankful PW4s arent a bugged GBU at the moment
Yea, they basically have no time to move all 3 vehicles out of the way, maps are too small. Laser is just for extra precision, for a tank or a hiding target. PW4s are nimble enough and the fact that you can drop them above mach 1.0 helps a lot.
Also you being close leaves them no time to distinguish IR guided weaponry from simple GNSS bombs, so most of the time they wouldn’t even try to move away, but try to intercept it instead. That’s what you have 10 of them for.
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I will give it ago and let you know. It’s a real shame we don’t have a system that remembers what your spawn points were for the aircraft and allow you to land and reconfigure to that spawn point limit. Would be great to deal with SAMS and then equip Brimstones and go hunting helos or if your team is getting hammered by aircraft land and go full A2A
I suppose this is where the double rack PW4s on the inner 2 pylons and instead of the single PW4s on the outer pylons run the Brimstones. So you have the maximum number of weapons to switch between becomes useful
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Oh, great news here. You can actually hunt MI-28s with PW4s, for me it works better than brimstones currently. Also sometimes there’s a bug where game treats a bomb like it’s a wall, so helo just self pulverizes and it’s being counted as him just crashing, lol. Fun overall.
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When we first got Paveway II I killed a number of Ka-50’s with it. Was funny seeing it kill kinetically without exploding then popping off ~50m behind the helicopter.
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Laser guided rocks
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I thought I’d share that to prove a point. By the way it has an added benefit of making them ponder their decisions while looking at locked helicopter in the hangar afterwards.
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What range are you throwing paveways at helicopters ha ha
I’ve hit many in the buccaneer and the Jaaaaaaag and Tonka. It’s not impossible
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1.14km apparently xd
Speed: MACH 1.21
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Retiring the Typhoon cannot even get close enough to toss Paveways IRIS-T system and a BUK CAS is cooked. Even ran to the edge of the map and when I went to engage IRIS-T Missile hit me from 40+km bear in mind I’m on the deck and no MAWS/missile launch warning too so that was great.