F-15E was added the update before. We got nothing for air in december
This is too much cope in the other direction though. US A2G has been really dominant in the past, just like Russian A2G is dominant now.
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I’m talking more about really dumb stuff like no EGBU or LJDAM on US jets. And no Laser GBU-39.
And when ppl complain about US CAS I don’t think they realize that the game is just barely scratching the surface of all the stuff we could get.
You call it crying, we call it complains and they must exist since so many bugs and unnecessary additions were implemented either wrongly or not added at all.
But go ahead buddy, Germans can cry over the 2A7 having less hull armor.
Russians can cry over not having FnF missiles for their Helicopters while having the best ATGM called Vikhr.
Russians can cry over the bad reverse speed and bad reload while the second best tank and the best Ground lineup ever.
But when an American player suggest an issue like bad armor on the Abrams or Hellfires are so slow or Mavericks are from the 80’s he get attacked and he’s crying.
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Also barely scratching the surface of the Russian arsenal.
Though they do tend to get cooler things before everyone else which is slightly peeving, AASM would have been nice earlier, but we have them now. Except the big one.
Does Russia have anything like the CBU-105 or GBU-53?
I want to say they do have an equivalent to the CBU 105, but not the GBU 53, as that is far too subtle of a solution for the Russians. As is probably obvious given the development of glide 3 tonne bombs. Though I may be missing something in that regard.
Doing some research now to check second one.
Seems the weapon Russia considers equivalent from their state outlets is Drel. I am not sure I would call that equivalent to GBU 53, but there you go. Seems it is closer in functionality to 105, but apparently they’re comparing it to 53.
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Yeah I noticed that too. Seems like it’s just a way worse 105 (less submunitions)
This is the type of loadout our jets could run. Each CBU-105 has 40 guided submunitions which can each destroy/severely damage a rank
Wouldn’t call it worse, has some functionality I’d argue make it better, so I’d say it’s different but not better nor worse. If you can get to the area to drop the CBU, then probably better, but if you can’t seems Drel has a bit more functionality.
This is provided that functionality works, given the unfortunate circumstances Russia has saddled its manufacturing with.
Edited in a potential loadout picture above
And what functionality does Drel have over the 105?
Aye, and if you can get that to the target, it is much better. But if your target is angy, Drel seems a bit more able to manage it even if there’ll be less effect on said targets.
To answer the functionality:
Supposedly they’re making it glide-y. Seems the Russians have gotten pretty good at making stuff glide a decent way.
There is also JSOW-B for that. They canceled it but a couple were made (and almost certainly tested)
I decided to check if PTABs were upgraded, and now I’m down a rabbit hole of ordnance I didn’t realise existed because apparently they did actually create new submunitions instead of (More accurately: As well as) still slinging the old stores. Suffice to say, apparently Russia has plenty of equivalents to these things.
So Drel is relatively similar, they’ve apparently a half dozen versions of their cluster bombs carrying smart munitions, or just a slightly silly number of dumb bomblets from the old stores. Apparently the new conflict has brought them to the fore, with them also being given glide kits.
I am going to have to investigate this more thoroughly when I’m awake.
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i wont comment much as i will get hammered. But china players need to go somewhere with their Temu Tanks and jets. You guys get every copy of almost every nation.
If anything they should probably be adding anti-radiation missiles next
The AGM-65 is NOT (emphasis on NOT) at ALL broken its one of the WORST agms in the game while russians have an ARSENAL of AGM’s
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i totally agree that they need to give the US some weapons for CAS not saying US dosent have decent/good CAS but the Su34, Su30, Su27SM all have good AGM’s with 20KM plus range while the ADATS cant even intercept something thats 20KM away while the pantsir can and the AGM-65 says that its 21KM range but its actually below 10KM and above 15 for STATIC targets (not moving ones)
For your point about the lower tier American jets, yes, I will agree that early mavericks are leaps and bounds better than other available options, but for top tier, I really don’t know what you mean by Strong Cas options.
For the F-15E for example, while it does seem quite overpowered at a glance, you really have to slow down and take a look at how its kit interacts with ground RB to realize its not as broken as it looks at a glance. starting with the Lazer Guided bombs, they seem great on paper, but they often aren’t super effective due the presence of SPAA making safely using each bomb extremely Time consuming. Then the Mavericks, Yes are great. But they are still D mavericks (I know some others have G mavs, but they are a warhead change to make them more reliable, not increased range/ better seeker) that are found at brs as low as 10.7, they still can get the job done, but are FAR FAR worse than the something like the later Kh series.
Now this is NOT me saying “AMERICA STRUGGLE” and asking for the best possible munition to beat the shit out of my opponent in a completely one sided matchup, As that is how we get 1 upmanship that ruins game balance and gets us into situations like this, but rather something to close the gap, but still leave us at a disadvantage in the self guided category.
Something along the lines of the SLAM could work, but thats only if it will perform worse than the 38MT’s, as that’s the goal, something that should hopefully be a threat and considerably better than the Mavericks, but not as good as things like the KH-38MTs.
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You know it would be great if Gaijin would actually fix AGM-65s they would be so much better than the current gimp state there in. AGM-65 Maverick likely incorrect flight performance // Gaijin.net // Issues