Everything that it goes up against has flares, unless they are a helicopter, but those you can’t even lock onto. The radar is slow and unreliable. The missiles lock only at 5km all-aspect, but by the time you can launch it you get fucked up by a GBU launched by a warthog (which, if you don’t know, is a full br higher than the zsu). Or maybe I am not playing it correctly?
Pretty much all of the 9.3 SPAAs are underwhelming, but without having played it I’d say the Shilka M4 is probably one of the better ones. At least you get backup guns to blast overconfident players without guided weaponry, as well as thrust vectoring on the missiles.
Most other SPAAs at the tier only have missiles, which are just as useless as the Shilka’s against aware opponents and helicopters, but they also have to deal with a huge deadzone of like 2 km around them, at which range their missiles won’t pull appropriately and miss every time. Not only do the Shilka’s missiles still work even at point blank range, but even in the worst case you still have the guns.
Your best bet in any of these is to hide and wait for the plane to make it’s first pass. Once it’s gone overhead and is zooming out to reset, get a clear rear aspect shot and fire a missile. Not only is it harder to flare, but most players won’t be looking around since nothing shot at them on the way in, and thus they’ll assume there’s no SPAA threats. Or, if they pass close enough to you, just use the guns. You should have a feel for how to lead them at this point, so I’d even suggest not relying on the RADAR and relying on muscle memory.
Of course, this doesn’t work against standoff ranged munitions, but there’s currently no SPAA at the tier that can deal with that (Outside maybe the M247 against cocky helicopters). All you can do against them is hide.
1 Like
It’s ass. Compared to the PGZ04 there’s no competition. The Z04 has; better chassis, higher maneuverability, independent search and track radars, thermals, LRF, better gun and radar handling. In return I think the Iglas can pull more G’s but that’s it.
Honestly I’d buff it’s radar, horsepower and gun handling/accuracy. Sources online say all this stuff has been improved over the base Shilka but it’s yhe same ingame.
1 Like
It has IRCCM so it should be pretty hard to flare.
I have not had much issue with the range. There shouldnt be much that can effectively opperate outside of your range.
It is a solid spaa for 9.3.