- Missiles cannot fly through trees; they would go off as soon as they hit one. 2. If radar can pick up a helicopter sitting on the ground, it would pick up all vehicles on the ground. This guy couldn’t even lock onto me unless he’s got an aimbot!
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Who killed you btw?
and what was the missile.
It seems it was a stinger launched from that gepard 1a2. That guy was extremely lucky to be able to lock a helicopter with stingers.
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Yup, but explains why it tracked something landed. But interesting it tracked through the trees
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As I have said before he fired a stinger at you. It’s quite surprising that guy managed to get a lock on you with a stinger. Since stinger is a small missiles sometimes it clips through trees.
Fim-92E or K
it was not a Stinger it was a Fim 92E or K
Arent they the same thing?
bro stinger is fim92’s lmao, they are IR missile, they dont need radar lock. u were flying too close and the missile picked up ur heat signature. he wasnt hacking
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No
also by the look of it, it flew between the trees so it didt hit it.
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Missiles will only hit the trunk of the tree and nothing else. You can a missile into a group of trees and have a decent chance of it getting though in my opinion.
While using a spaa with IR missiles, the missile lock holds for a moment while a aircraft moves behind trees. Within that time I usually lob a missile upwards in hopes it drops down just over the first rows of the tree line and into the target.
Not a guarantee, but I have had luck with that method.
First of all my helicopter was on the ground behind a forest missiles hit branches on a tree and they explode end of story but not in War Thunder that is what’s wrong with this scenario and radar can’t see through trees they’ll get multiple returns from the trees and since my helicopter was on the ground it can’t see it anyway if that was the case it pick up every tank in every vehicle on the battlefield!
Again, in warthunder, the game you are playing, missiles will go through all parts of a tree except the trunk. There are no hit boxes on branches in game. Only the center trunk will register hits. Stopping the missile.
IR missiles do not rely on radar. They simple lock onto your heat signature. In some cases you can still get missile locks through trees or maintain a lock. From the first picture you would be able to get a lock between the trees because there is a nice gap. Nice picture though.
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You know you sure don’t know much about missiles and trees they don’t mix now radar cannot see a helicopter sitting on the ground behind a forest what point don’t you get? In other words, there should be hitboxes around the trees so War Thunder needs to get off the glue and fix this! And radar from mobile AA and aircraft cannot see a helicopter sitting on the ground behind trees they need to fix that too. And one more question? how old are you?
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In the game SPAA radar can often track targets that are behind trees. Also he fired a IR guided missile which doesn’t require radar lock.
If this was a missile from a roland sam or similar large missile then it would have exploded while going through the trees.
IR and Radar in-game is coded with the same thing but different channels, have to make that clear