I think I figured out a way to get a GCS-1 to have LOAL without gaijin introducing dedicated LOAL mechanics. Basically, you give it detection bands for the ground, which you set really high, then increase the pre-launch FoV to a very high number, like 60, and make it so it no longer sees the sun. Then you turn off it’s ability to gimbal, set up a time to target to gain value.
What this will do, is allow the missile to be launched without a lock on a target, as it will lock the ground, as the ground will basically always be in the FoV of the seeker, but after it launches and sees the ground it will shrink to it’s actual size. Due to the time to target to gain value, it won’t actually guide until it gets close to the target, and since it has no gimbal it will just be stuck pointing straight ahead with the reduced FoV. So it doesn’t start guidence until it’s close enough to the target that the lower range bands for vehicle IR signatures will allow them to be picked up, thus causing it to guide towards them.
Working on trying to get this tested out, will send updates.
You see BI is small and fast, also it face props and early jets.
Meanwhile Ki-200 faces cold war jet aircraft.
Also the airfield location. Because in higher tiers it is farther.
I don’t know about the chosen platforms though. Neither would benefit much, if at all from a radar. Most I can imagine is to avoid other players in Simulator.
