devs are already locked in their belief that SLM can’t even reach mach 2.1 lol.
as with all nato equipment, they search for the worst performance datapoint they can find regardless of source and then build from that (all other evidence is capitalist marketing lies of course)
its current effective range is roughly 10km. everything i’m seeing says >30km for effective range irl
so imo you’re exactly right in saying it’s underperforming by 3x, which is honestly the worst gimp i’ve seen from them in 11 years. amazing really
Don’t even start it honestly, i’d rather not have this entire report about SLM get locked because someone is incentivizing that. We have accepted reports about range of the missile we just need to find more data about the speed.
What is their interest in constantly nerfing the hell out of any new NATO equipment that comes to the game? It is the same with Brimstone to which they responded with “there would be no counterplay”, yet there is so much counterplay to the Kh38s right?
not even worth to research iris-t spaa until they give it the proper range, it should absolutely melt planes at 20km meanwhile kh38mt slingers are still immune
I can imagine that if this was russian spaa it wouldnt be nerfed so much below its real performance
There is a source that claims ~1min TTK vs a >30km range, 12km high, actively defending target, but pretty sure in that vein, thats the best we got, and gaijin doesnt care.
If it’s the source I’m thinking of, we’re already aware of it, but it’s not the kind of source gaijin accepts: Iris-t slm - #31 by njits23
In any case, the target wasn’t at 12km altitude, that was just the missiles apogee according to this news report. The distance was 30km in about sixty seconds.
Unless you can find a Diehl spokesperson or press release giving these same numbers, we can’t use them.
By gaijins own standards, websites are considered secondary sources, so its not that the source isnt good enough, its that they dont like what it says and know we probably cant find anything more detailed.
As a sidenote, the IRIS-T was nerfed to 50G on a dubious reading of a single secondary source, so its pretty clear that gaijin is just picking and choosing what they want to believe regarding the IRIS-T, and what they want to believe is that it sucks.
This is actually hilarious. They specifically pick out a source that has the worst stats for IRIS and based on that they model it in game. Good job, i guess NATO simply makes dogshit equipment…
Good news: The 1 minute to 30km distance with an apogee of 12km can be found on the German version of the Diehl website on the Internet Archive: Presse & Medien: Diehl Defence
Sadly, the actual press release can’t be opened, because it wasn’t archived. The preview, however, does contain the required information.
the closest to what i can get of real SLM performance is r27er with longer sustainer r27er Achieve 2.63 at 8 seconds of burn while SLM is 6 seconds more so should easily break Mach 3 match the Ukraine combat record
