Exactly how am i supposed to shoot down aircraft with the xm975 (the missiles are dysfunctional)

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Why are the roland missiles so bad that they cant track an aircraft after it does a single barrel roll or steers one way? What is the actual point of adding all these random spaa systems if the roland is so awful. Just give everyone a strela if youre not gonna bother making the roland spaa systems playable

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This exactly. Transforms the Roland from bad to actually decent SAM

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Exactly. Tried this once it got added and have not used manual guidance since (for planes at least).

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Now if can only get tracking radar and proper elevation angles on French Roland it will become actually usable.

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They are correct for the model we have in game sadly. We should just get the roland 2 launcher because there is no reason not to. It is in game but france is not allowed to have its own technology.

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The elevation is actually not correct, whatever « model » we speak of (turrets are identical, it’s just the tracking radar that is missing)

This menu actually helps cheating the elevation limits. The menu doesn’t use sight to track, it’s more similar to tracking in third person view - thus, it’s only limited by the tracking limits of the (search) radar which is pretty good. This does come at the cost of needing to be fired at a lower angle and then be guided upwards, so it only works at targets more than 4km or so from experience