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.
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.
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.
yeah, but even then, You still probably would rarely fire them past about 18-20km. Certainly wont be firing them at (if conditions allow) 30kms like you can in theory do with KH-38s and AASMs now
“It’s Swedish and German fault their Leopard rush into our base and killing our pantsir allow American to kill us with their CAS” Russian main probably
Brimstone it has something to do with Russian main more than US main gaijin said give it mmw seeker it will operate risk free from any SPAA in the game but meanwhile KH-38 allow to do that to other nation
Wow, it’s almost like historically China didn’t have a military industry, and relied on other nations before being able to mass produce indigenous tanks and aircrafts.
This is only a comparison of long Range AG weapon, not CAS weapon. The Grom2 is the most powerful, and it can fly 50km at an altitude of 4km. The LS6-500 can fly 60km at an altitude of 7km. The AASM250 is a little worse, I only tested 9km altitude can fly 55km.
Other than being in development, why is the AGM-187 denied for the F-18C? Seems like an arbitrary limitation when it would behave basically the same as Brimstone, so it’s not for balance purposes. The SU-30SM also gets Kh-38 without proof of them ever being mounted, AFAIK the double R-77 pylons are fake as well.
