Interesting Loft
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True, it is a shame that these vehicles share the same spawns as tanks though, they will suffer immensely in small maps and I don’t see them performing well in maps you can see from spawn to spawn, or maps so small you can spawn rush in 30 seconds and be shot at.
In real life these systems would be operating tens of kilometers away from any active war zone, I wish Gaijin would give it dedicated spawns like helicopters do, and I might actually consider playing them.
But the changes we got today seem quite promising in terms of raw missile performance.
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Dumb question but where is the SLM’s IR seeker it has a pointy solid nose cone?
It has an aerodynamic cap that sheds off once it is in its terminal phase, the missile is kinda SARH for some of its flight time and then locks onto the target with IIR.
So if the Radar looses track the missile would fail due to not knowing where the target or when the nose cone should come off? unless IOG last known position is close enough
Yeah it uses DL+IOG+GNSS for guidance so if it loses track with the radar it should still fly in the general direction of the target, it has front aspect lock range of 9 km and 12 for rear aspect, I believe.
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The missile has a discarding aerodynamic cone, that hides the seeker.
Before that, it flies on DL+IOG+GNSS. The missile will fly to the last known target position if the DL is lost. If it manages to aquire the target it will intercept it, if not, it will miss.
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Hmm ok, yeah so it’ll be quite easy to dodge on a map with any sort of terrain
sort of like any other missile
Oh definitely but I feel like the IRIS-T on the Swedish lil boy is going to be harder to dodge if you get in close
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Because its designed for close range xD
If up to 40km effective range is close then sure
He was referring to the EldE 98 :P
You mean extremly wasteful? :D
Three course changes including double digit g-maneuvers instead of one parabola.
Vertical → horizontal → climb → horizontal/dive.
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Elde has no datalink no?
Are you drunk?
The SLS has an range of 12km…
That’s the point, warthunders maps are tiny aka short range
I thought ur talking about the slm lol
Would be new to me that the Swedish got an SLM lul