Follow-up issues on AH-64E(UK)

[超级天闪重度依赖]

I’d like to inquire whether the British AH-64E currently serves merely as a placeholder or has been fully prepared for this major update. It’s clear that the British variant of the AH-64E boasts unique equipment and weapon configurations, yet the current version appears to exhibit only minor modeling discrepancies compared to those of other countries. It is evident that the configurations of the UK and the Netherlands AH-64Es are incomplete, which is unjust.

[HondaCivici]

Brimstones won’t be added as it’ll be too broken…

Is something I would say if Gaijin doesn’t implement multi spectrum smoke (which would be easy to implement btw).

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It shouldn’t carry JAGM-MR imo as it’s still going through testing, and no one has planned to purchase it, however since Britain is a JAGM operator, I believe that it’s fair that they’re given them temporarily until they get their well deserved brimstones.

[Smin1080p_WT]

Hello

The British Apache variant doesnt have any unique weaponary available in reality that differs from the American version.

Brimstone was briefly trialed by Boeing and MBDA on an unknown Apache E (its not clear if it was a US or British example). Additionally we dont plan to add Brimstone mmW due to balance considerations:

@Stona_WT

Developer comment: We’d like to mention that Brimstone will only have semi-active laser homing (SAL) mode in the game. The fire and forget mode and the active radar homing seeker will not be available for a few reasons. The primary reason is that this seeker utilizes the “lock-on after launch (LOAL)” mode, this mode allows the weapon to be fired in the general area of a target without needing any actual precision from the operator, who can remain at long range in complete safety.

We feel weapons that can be used outside of the direct line of sight of the target without needing any preliminary reconnaissance or direct user targeting are not currently workable for the game. Weapons such as Brimstone, AGM-114L cause a particular problem and similarly to other ATGMs that have lock after launch modes like the Spike and AJ.168 will not have such abilities in the game.

These weapon types present several issues all at once, they require no challenge to use effectively and have no counterplay options for those being attacked. The attacker can operate outside of the range of any anti-air system in the game, Brimstone is also immune to smoke, so this won’t help either.

ARH modes for air-to-ground weapons won’t be workable until natural and artificial interference to these guidance systems can be implemented, as there are no electronic reconnaissance and electronic warfare systems in the game. Adding these weapons now would allow them to operate perfectly without any counter, which we don’t want to do. Additionally, at closer combat ranges ATGMs with ARH cannot distinguish between allied and enemy targets, and this would lead to a large amount of accidental teamkills as well.

Brimstone SAL would be redundant on AH-64E as it already has AGM-179 SAL and IR.