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Another gamechanger 😂
we dont have ah-64e in this game so completely pointless post
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1- You can’t see the tail number to prove which Apache it is.
2- I can’t easily verify the missile it’s firing.
Afaik only the Israeli Apaches are capable of carrying spikes, i might be wrong tho
nobody argued that spikes arent capable of it.
The deciding factor is that its the AH-64E that has that capability not the variants we have in game.
Furthermore the US doesnt deploy them, it is a limited amount of nations that actualy do.
Not all nations got the starstreak either, only UK did
The tail number N945BA shows it’s a civil registration, which implies a test aircraft. Aparently the aircraft (an AH-64E) was later exported to the UK.
So that a civilian registered test aircraft fires a test missile doesn not imply the (older) variants in WT should carry the same missile too…
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ah-64e v6
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The footage with N945BA is actually from 2016 AH-64E tests with Brimstone. Likely Forces News took it from the UK MoD’s media archive since their main job is media and broadcasting services to entertain UK’s Armed Forces personnel abroad.
The other footage in the report (firing at a tank target) is indeed firing SPIKE NLOS though. The bucket-shaped datalink antenna and box-shaped launch containers are visible in the footage
They have been tested by the US since 2019 but full integration for the US Army was developed last year with the plan to field the missile through 2024.
Other tests were carried out with the datalink antenna mounted on the tips of the stub wing
None the less though, this was for AH-64E v6 and that variant is not in War Thunder. AH-64D could not fire SPIKE, and the version of SPIKE in War Thunder isn’t the NLOS version that’s being cleared for AH-64E
We do still have this AH-64 from back in 2019.
I’m not aware of any AH-64Es lacking the longbow FCR bar a few models in the initial delivery lot. It also has open wing edge mounts which is not indicative of an early make E which is another issue.
That’s also an Echo. It’s got the SATCOM “eggbeater”
Talking about the mast antenna? Those are present on AH-64Ds as well, this one is from 2018 in the 1st Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment (Attack Reconnaissance), 12th Combat Aviation Brigade. Said Brigade did not get their 1st AH-64Es until 2023, so this image is of an AH-64D.
US Army Aviation unit in Europe receives new Apache helicopters | Article | The United States Army
If its the wing FCR, those cant be mounted to any AH-64E until the V6 where the fixed wingtip MAWS were depreciated, earlier AH-64Ds also had this feature, with later block IIs installing said fixed MAWS that carried onto the early make AH-64Es.
- USA have no Spike implemented on the Longbow.
- Israel has tested Spike on their helos
- Israel is not replacing the Hellfire II by the Spike in near future due to the unit cost. Hellfire are way cheaper.
- Spain did implement Spike on the Eurocopter Tiger HAD/HAP
No I mean this one:
The mast-mounted antenna is MUM-T, which is now being upgraded with MUMT-X
That said, the SATCOM antenna was indeed on the Delta, with the late Block II (Echo was originally going to be Block III before they renamed it). But again the War Thunder AH-64Ds aren’t Block IIs either since they lack even Arrowhead/MTADS
So then your prior statement is not indicative of it only being a E like you said, so it could either be a D or a V6+ E, as pre V6 Es cant mount wing tip stores, the latter option not being that possible since this would predate the first AH-64E V6s being delivered by 3 years.
Its also not a Block I either, like most of the US aircraft in game its an amalgamation of various upgrades in the aircraft’s lifespan.
Pretty much all of this is irrelevant to the current conversation since we already know the AH-64E V6 has full NLOS capabilities, the question is if a D variant was also capable of such.