With the last major update, the US, Russia and China finally got their FnF missiles on their top tier helis but Britain, Japan and Sweden haven’t received a thing. Britain can get 2 different Heli launched IR guided missiles but where the F*CK are they?!!
AGM 179 was added to the US with the Apache Guardian in Tusk Force but Britain didn’t get one that would be a copy-paste of the American one, Britain didn’t get IR guided ZT6 Mokopa when it would be hard to implement. So when is Britain going to get FnF missiles? Japan wouldn’t be able to get any FnF missiles on their helicopters for a long while and Sweden also can just get the Akeron.
What are your thoughts?
Would you like to see JAGM or IR Mokopa for Britain?
JAGM
IR Mokopa
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P.S. Sorry if I sound like a whiney Britain main but I’ve tried making this post 3 times and my computer keeps reloading making me loose my all of my written progress >:(
I don’t mind waiting another update but we either get Rooivalk with the ARGOS 2 sight and better Mokopas or we get AH 64E with JAGM but I’m not going to go without complaining about it and Gaijin adds nothing then sweeps it under the rug that there is still no heli
The fact that nothing was added means what they were planning wasn’t finished in time.
That’s all.
Unless it meets the theme of the update, it’s not guaranteed to be finished for that update.
I don’t know Apaches by sub-models, only by visual differences.
Of which Britain’s has many distinct visual differences, with two notable major ones being electronic warfare suite and engine exhaust.
@AlvisWisla this suggestion would be a viable end of the line addition in a side-branch from the AAC AH Mk.2, since it provides a capable IIR missile since most of what britain uses are MMW weapons, and JAGMs haven’t been procured yet despite ordering them
Neither of these are significant changes that would warrant a whole patch of remodelling, all external changes to the AH Mk2 already exist as textures in game.
TLDR gaijin were lazy and chose not to conduct the simple model changes in order to delay long range FNF missiles to nations besides Russia, USA and China
If I was a novice 3d designer, I could take the AH Mk1 and AH-64E, take the pylons and exhausts from the AH Mk1 and apply those to the AH-64E model, update the optic and bam, you have the ‘new model’ you keep talking about, and it’s accurate, because the british apache fleet was remanufactured (old airframes upgraded to AH-64E standard) meaning they share a large amount of pre-existing components
Never once have I ‘demanded’ that gaijin C&P the guardian into the british tree, simply asking why they didn’t make the simple model adjustments in order to add it, which is a reasonable request
It’s not a model adjustment, it’s whatever’s the fastest method to making the piece for the artist AFTER the research is finalized and sent to the artist as reference material for the piece.
And my complaint is that gaijin should’ve taken that into account, and that’s why I call them lazy, because they chose to delay it instead.
Either way you have bogged the thread down in logical fallacy and derailment about copy paste.
Back on topic, I’d still like to see a Mokopa IR-equipped Rooivalk at rank 7 of the British Heli tree, because for now they would be an interesting alternative to apaches, and unique attack helicopters shouldn’t be locked behind paywalls like the Rooivalk is currently
I mean similarly to Python 4s, people have an irrational fear of MMw heli mounted weaponry (from fixed wings, it’s a bit more problematic), they have been told how amazingly powerful they are, despite equally lethal weapons now being in game (LMURs are arguably as effective as a MMw Hellfire L/Brimstone/JAGM)