SAL brimstone 2s/3s would be more realistic for gaijin to add, 18km isn’t long enough to actually dodge most top SPAA with confidence
actually reaching the articifcal targeting pod limit (30km) would be a start
Spear-3 being powered would enable it being fired at speeds greater than Mach 1. Which, in a Typhoon, is an absolute chore to get the Typhoon down below which greatly limits how you can employ the Spice-250s. Its my main issue with them and why I still run PW4s in Air modes over the spice-250s, despite the fact they are lighter and I can run more.
Though FnF Brimstone 2s would be just as effective short-term as Spear-3. Its not until we get the need for long range LOAL that Spear-3 would over-shadow Brimstone 2s. Though a GNSS or GNSS+SAL Spear-3 would be quite nice too along side it
Yeah. Why SAL Brimstones 2s didnt come with the first typhoon is beyond me, or even the Tornado GR4.
Let alone the AESA Typhoon
your forgetting what nation its on
And? That limitation is a gayjin fabrication anyway, particularly for BRU-61 stores.
Because surprise surprise, the world has moved beyond the free fall release of munitions limitations of the 1950s.
Yeah… Though would also be for Germany and Italy too, so there would be at least some second-hand buffs there
that is true but gaijin doesnt like italy either so kinda screwed there
Idk, Italy air is pretty loved, a lot of late stuff (ahem low BR hungary air) but ground that’s definitely true.
If Italy air wasn’t loved they wouldn’t have gotten the F16, A V8, Gripen, Mig 29 ect
I’d say the only problem is more sto the Over BR’d starfighter but every nation has a few over tiered jets.
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I wouldn’t say giving copy and paste vehicles would be considered loved. The fact that every starfighter in the tree is overtired and obviously so goes to show they dont care enough to give it a deeper look. The F-104s.ASA at 11.3 may be a step too far but honestly looking at where they put the mig 25 which i would argue is just better than the ASA i wouldn’t mind seeing how it fairs.
I think like more than a few at and around that BR, there is no good answer as to what BR it should be at. The compression is just too extreme for any meaningful balance
True, but no one can do well in the ASA at the br its at now. Im still surprised im positive in it after spading it from stock. But if im struggling to go up against mig 23s who are at 11.0 i see no reason why it cant go down to 11.3 (ive given up trying to act like balance is in anyway a factor due to how compressed it is around the br as i would say im more scared of a mig 21 bis than i am of this thing as to negate its only gimic all you need to know is how to knotch or fly low).
Yeah… from what I know about it, its basically treated like most ground attackers are. Which is poorly, because it can in theory base bomb
You would think that but 90% of the time a mig 23 will have already taken the base you would have went for lol. Crazy to me how they kept trying to move the buccaneer up as it was apparently too good at bombing bases (it was but this was after they removed its air spawn and increased the map size making it basically unplayable in air) but the mig 23 never even saw a br increase when it was probably THE best base bomber in game and still is.
Still malding the god damn su 7 is 9.0 when its both a fantastic fighter and base bomber with napalm.
I mean sure but they could have just done the Sweden route and ignored adding gap fillers for 4 years then adding them. Ahem playing the Viggens against F16’s for years was very fun…
But that’s just one example still if they weren’t loved they could have also avoided added anything that fills air gaps like Finland lol
https://youtube.com/shorts/vKH7-6wZFTw?si=nHIfJf8vp4rVmdbT
So Russia with its 2 best SPAA in the game, gets a new best SPAA. Are we not allowed to have a proper counter for this? Brimstone 1 SAL in this Russian dome environment is unbalanced
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/k9BuMgZVnUFq
This report looks pretty funny today, don’t you think? But they won’t give us IR Brimstones. It’s unbalanced.
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- Two separate signals are now used by ESA radars to search and to track targets when in TWS mode. As a result, just like in a hard lock, it is now possible to track targets above the horizon with any radial velocity, and targets below the horizon with lower radial velocities are now trackable.
This update is really great. It used to be so inconvenient that the datalink would completely drop once the target notched.
I’m still grinding the US tech tree so I can only fly the F-15C GE, but the AMRAAM feels way stronger now. I mean, getting over 3K/S in the F-15 is insane.
Tested it yesterday a bit, they are good when you can guide them in (with narrow TWS), at the same time though I’m glad they kept the A’s as a loadout option, since they pull better at close range, when you don’t really have time to keep the TWS on enemies.
I think 4 + 8 or 6+6 is a good loadout for the GE.
Apologies for the off-topic
Personally, the D-AMRAAM feels like the most powerful AMRAAM so far, so I’ve been running all D variants. I’m not sure why, but it feels extremely resistant to multipath, and its ECCM performance against chaff also seems better than the others. The ECCM part might be thanks to the radar update, though. As for multipath, it could be due to GNSS. I want to try it on the Eurofighter soon. The 120D isn’t as bad as people said it would be.
Its not bad… it never was going to be bad.
Many people were just disillusioned by how it achieves a greater overall range… not really understanding that the earlier AIM120 variants were technologically limited by the guidance package and battery, not kinemamtic performance limited.
Yes, There probably are some efficiency improvements to the composition of the propellant… but the size of the motor would be unchanged, and no direct increase in propellant mass…
This is proven by the fact that the no escape zone at sea level remains unchanged, where the missile is kinematically limited.
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