ASRAAM is much more likely to be the superior missile in-game. The IRIS-T is likely to be too short on range and will likely spin out of control all the time compared to all the competitors, while offering no actual advantage due to a mix of how WT is modelled, and how blatantly gaijin hates Germany.
I have serious doubts the IRIS-T will be anything but the worse top tier IR missile when added.
Yes the bladed version for murdering someone you don’t like in a country you aren’t supposed to be operating from…
I would wager IRIS-T will be in better working order than ASRAAM as multiple nations will use it
ASRAAM will only have the UK (if they segregate loadout options and my gut says they will)
With how stubborn Gaijin are to acknowledge the capabilities of systems they don’t understand…ASRAAM will be no different.
Couple that with Russian players, US players and even French players fielding bug reports to try and nerf/restrict it.
I am not convinced it will be anywhere near what it should be.
I worry long range shots will just be easily flared using the new Spectral flares they will have to add.
Anybody know how much more range or burn time IRIS-T has over the R-73?
Bad wager to make, the ASRAAM isnt TVC controlled, which already simplifies its implementation. The ASRAAM also doesn’t turn nearly as hard as the IRIS-T, with the IRIS-T having half the turn radius of the R-73. The R-73 already occasionally has issues when it pulls too hard, spinning out of control, these issues will be magnified substantially on the IRIS-T.
There’s also the fact that the IRIS-T is known to use an H-infinity controller instead of a PID one, which means right out of the gate, the IRIS-T will be inferior in-game to its irl counterpart, something gaijin will likely never model or fix.
The IRIS-T is just outright more complex to implement in-game properly when compared to the ASRAAM. Theres no real reason to think the ASRAAM will be bad in-game. I’d even guess its likely to be one of if not the single best IRAAM when added, simply due to its simplicity and the fact what it excels at is “optimal” for how WT models the game.
I think it actually has less range to the R-73? should be somewhere between an R-73 and AIM-9 I’d think, being the same size as an AIM-9 but with a more advance aerodynamic layout and potentially a superior motor?
Watch them just add Aim-9X to everyone and deny IRIS-T and ASRAAM as “being too good”
IRIS-T and ASRAAM should theoretically be easier to add than stuff like MICA-IR id think, seeing as they can be first added to the game using their analogue bus, significantly limiting their pre-launch capabilities. The IRIS-T would have its LOBL gimbal limits dropped from 90deg down to 45deg.
Nah, just gonna slap IRCCM to the SRAAM and call it a day.
Would not surprise me at all :D
does the d-5 have the similar launch speed as the c5? i remember hearing some typhoons (german i think) carry a mix of meteors and amraams because amraams are quicker at shorter distances or something like that
I’ve never heard about them carrying a mix (though granted I dont pay much attention to German Typhoon news) but I did hear that they still using AMRAAMs for training/live fire exercises because they are cheaper or something than Meteors and that they have a surplus of older AMRAAMs leftover / AMRAAMs for their F-35s
2x AIM-120
4x Meteor
2x IRIS-T
Idk how common the load is though, thats the only pic I could find quickly.
Interesting
And yet we’re still somehow waiting for those reports to be actioned, even though it’s been almost a year since they were accepted.
Only a year?
Thats a bit optimistic. Gunna take at least another 2
Devs gave their answer, they’ve probs thrown all the stinger related bug reports into the proverbial shredder since and do so automatically for any new reports.
Same things happened with the German Leopard 2’s. They wrote a quick article, literally said their own conjecture was illogical, called it a day and laid back to have some “well deserved” vodka
The gaijin devs writing an article about their position on anything is effectively a death knell for any realism regarding said weapon system. Bug reports have no more meaning after the gods employed at gaijin lay down their verdict, regardless of it contradicting all logic and sources.
I think you mixed it up with AIM-120D price
Yeah, the 9X is like 300-400k that is why they shot it at the weather balloon…
Got the number from here:
Does seem like its lower tho, not sure why the number on this site is so high. Maybe its export cost vs domestic cost?
That is not the air launched 9X. Its a variant for ground and naval launches.
Here is the launcher: NASAMS - Wikipedia
