But it’s not even that, it’s worse. By implementing this change they just outright called all members of Diehl Defence - morons. Because technically seeker can still see beyond 4 km in the game, it just refuses to activate before that xd
-Hey €400,000 missile, would you please eat dirt and self destruct? -----Said the radar
-Sir, yes sir! ------ Replied the missile
Not only can the seeker not see past 4km, it also has no LDIRCM capability. And it also has a loft profile that wastes so much energy
Besides, if they still don’t give Germany some actually usable stuff next update, I might have to take a long break from the German tech tree. Right now I genuinely wish Gaijin could refund all the RP and SL I spent on Germany—just let me go grind the Soviet tree instead. At least they’ve truly never been treated unfairly for the past three years. I’ve already finished researching the entire Chinese aviation tree and I’m stockpiling RP for the upcoming new aircraft. There, at least you can see players who are actually willing to speak out and push back against Gaijin.
When do we submit in lssues
Hey at least we got a new shiny tornado that you cant properly grind, because someone at Gaijin thought that having 2 Aim9LIs makes it 12.3 material
That’s what gonna happen
In the update log, gaijin described that the anti-infrared jamming capability of the missile seeker was enhanced, and the terminal guidance activation distance was changed from 10 km to 4 km.😡I think this change will make the missile itself more dependent on the continuous radar illumination before hitting the target, while most CAS in the game are flying at low altitude, if there is a shelter or even blocking the radar scanning of the CAS, in the past, this situation can rely on 10 km RII, now changed to 4 km RII, making the missile blind, now out of the continuous radar illumination, the probability of the missile missing the target is higher. High-altitude shooting down 10 km low-altitude CAS becomes a fantasy😡
I really don’t know what CAS player even dares flying 100 feet above the ground in top tier battles, you might as well change your IRIS-T for the Ozelot, it’s same effective lock range anyway.
So it’s not like gaijin said that most of the targets encountered are low altitude, which reduces the distance of RII. For low altitude flying targets, irist is very unfavorable. I haven’t seen many CAS that are scanned by radar and continue to fly at high altitude.
My current SPAA killtask ist still 0/5 with Iris T. Not a single kill, all fyling rather low. Iris can’t deal with that. Except two blue jets (?). Dunno why, can’t even lock friendlies and radar contact was maintained all the time (flat map). Datalink desn’t seem to talk to Iris missiles.
I just tried to intercept a volley of LMURs, not a single hit, radar refresh rate is too slow, and proxy range is too short. Even VT-1 struggle to intercept, they visually explode but the missile carries on as if nothing happened. Nothing ever works.
Why are some contacts in your radar list red? They are there, but you can’t lock + shot them? Thats new to me.
So, I guess they’ve gone with the first behavior option instead of the second one?
Instead of turning on the seeker the moment the radar contact is lost it keeps flying by IOG until it’s 4 km from the last calculated impact point and only then activates it’s seeker, ultimately missing the target because it changed directions? They really reduced the maximum seeker distance to 4 km in all scenarios no matter how stupid???
I spent the day playing with Iris-T, didn’t even touch the tanks, and I’ll just say one thing: they killed what was supposed to be the best AAAP in the game. Sometimes it simply loses its lock-on and the missile doesn’t work again, and the 4km range compared to the Sky Sabre which can lock on at 16km and the SAMP/T as well, this is unplayable, but even so, Gaijin won’t do anything because they only listen to Russian and Chinese players.
Maybe tech mods can do something. Cause 4km IR lock range is AIM-9b level from 1957 or something (rear aspect though). There should be probably an improvement to 2025 and a 5th gen IR missile.
If you believe this modern missile can see past 4km and if you bug report it, you’ll get hit with the classic:
Remember to buy premiums guys.
That’ll teach them a lesson.
He wants someone to leak some secret document about a modern anti-aircraft system, lol
I’m going to leave this image here and go to sleep
Um… actually, during yesterday’s testing with my friends, compared to the previous 10 kilometer infrared capture distance, the current 4 kilometers seem less likely to be evaded by flares once the guidance head is turned on to track the aircraft
When facing an airplane, if he is very vigilant and immediately enters low altitude upon discovering “IRS” on RWR, it may be difficult for him to obtain the lethal killing ability in this version
