Type 93 and Strela both show the same 5,000m range
It’s a misnomer.
There is an supposed story going around that it was called an F-117 because they wanted pilots from the F/A line of training to fly it. But were concerned their top pilots wouldn’t want to fly it if it wasn’t a cool fighter.
But the real reason is most likely to confuse the Soviets of the aircrafts actual purpose.
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Cause we use statcards around here right?
Whatcha listening too buddy?
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Toyota
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Daus auto
Dude everything the stinger uses to lock on, the F-117 has out of view.
I agree the Stinger in WT is trash. I am also a (current) stinger and ATAS qualified armament officer.
Firstly no -117 would ever be dumb enough to come down into the stingers envelope. They also flew almost exclusively at night.
But no, “IRL” a stinger would not “absolutely” get a lock on an F117. They’re actually very old and not that awesome compared to some of the newer options. We just kept em because we didn’t have a pressing need for a better system till now. Hence why the new missile the US is buying is polish 🤣
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Knowing the loadout, speed, CM’s maybe it will be totally invisible to SPAA and AAM.
My guess: itll be 9.7 or so. Subsonic, no offensive weapons, small payload of only two bombs.
Itll be useless in ARB, its stealth doesnt matter when you have the nice big target marker over your head, Radar missiles at that sort of BR aren’t very common and mostly suck anyway, theres still plenty of effective gunfighters around there so its stealth literally doesnt matter.
In GRB it might be somewhat useful for a kill or two where the few IR missile SPAAs at that BR will struggle to lock it, assuming it works similar to helis, but ultimately probably wont be any more effective than the current implementation of the attack drones.
Anyone spawning a jet will still easily counter it. Its stealth works on radar, not on eyeballs.
I think that was ninja sex party “I don’t know what we’re talking about”
What?
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Sorry stinger, I re-wrote what I was typing and missed that.
Everything the Stinger looks for, is specifically shielded to make the F-117 very cold and hard to get a fix on from below.
I totally am not taking that out of context
Murica in a nutshell: why should we make ground to air armament when we can use air to air
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Make it a 12.7 and call it a day, or 13.0
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Hey don’t ask me. It’s just on the amazon station I’ve got going for background noise. It is kinda an ear worm tho
I think it’s more of the “we’re beating the absolute snot out of dudes without an airforce” meanwhile Russia collapsed and most of the other nations we view as a threat are a regional power at best, so why devote money to something when we have a “good enough” solution
And we’re finally breaking out of the “has to be an American design/idea” and using good systems from other nations.
The Piorun is an amazing missile, much better than the Type 91/Stinger. Mostly because it’s way newer and has more lessons learned. Like the Javelin vs the NLAW
There was a game limitaiton so until it got fixed, it was a lot larger/longer range as a bodge job. Then when they fixed the issue, they nerfed it. Was beginning of the year I think
True in that. USA barely fought anyone with an equal airforce in the past three decades but it is a bit sad that it is also the reason why they didn’t make good all in one SPAA vehicles like the Pantsir, the heavy focus was on air to air and air to ground rather than ground to air