Seeing as how the META currently is spawning in a Russian Jet and immediately firing all your missiles from 15km away and then turning back to the AF, I am not even sure the SLM can actually do anything against them.
They need to fix the ammunition interception. If they do that then a single player with an SLM will at least be able to intercept 2 or 3 runs of the same guy spamming their missile.
We might see some really bad players die to the SLM while flying straight but the better ones will immediately turn away and the IRIS-T SL will take too long to reach the target at 15km to actually kill them before they can turn and outrun the missiles.
The SLM will shine versus helicopters and against multiple active planes but will still not be able to reliably stop RU players from immediately sending out 6 death rays.
We would need the planes to take-off from the airfield to stop that from happening.
Having planes taking off from the AF is worse tbh because some Airfield is behind a hill on some maps so you won’t even see them launching. That missile has enough energy to go from its airfield to the Ground battlefield. Someone can just launch via GNSS the moment they take off from their airfield and immediately land and all those missiles will still reach the enemy ground spawn. It’s a truly busted missile with little to no counter play.
The only hope right now that you have is launch 1 IRIS at the jet and hope the energy and IR seeker will get it there when the guy lands on his airfield to rearm after yeeting all his missiles.
No, no, this won’t be a problem at all. He needs at least another light tank player who uses drones to do this. And the kh38 carrier itself is just repeating takeoff and landing and throwing out their garbage. If his entire focus is on clearing countless SLM trucks on the ground, then I am sure the role and significance of this anti-aircraft vehicle have been achieved, that is, forcing Su30/34 to complete their work at a lower altitude like F15E and EF2000 did against Panstir
Not quite, because the SLM player doesn’t have much space to move around other than the spawn, given how most of the maps are small urban brawls. The SLM will get killed within 1 or 2 spawn-bound missile spam salvos because the IRIS T can’t intercept munitions reliably (hope they’ll fix this very soon). After that the Su would have free reign again.
Considering the vertical launch mechanism of SLM trucks, I guess it should be possible to place the launch vehicle behind a building or shelter, leaving only the radar vehicle outside for minimal exposure.
Even panstir cannot completely achieve an absolute no fly zone of 20km. As long as he achieves the effect I mentioned, he is a successful AA. This is beyond doubt, because KH38, which would have hit teammates’ heads, have all become GPS ROCKET without any tracking function
This is pretty important.
Going from free reign and tossing IR missiles from 10-13km away that track immediately after launch to hiding on the airfield tossing GPS missiles to random places on the map is impactful.
A: Compared to when?
B: the Dev server is since nearly an week closed, we dont know the final result
C: as of last Dev which Buffed the Speed, the Intercepting was worse
Compared to the first test? I only know that he has a decent interception effect on long-range AGM65 subsonic missiles, but it seems that his interception effect on AASM rocket extended range bombs is not ideal,let alone KH38
It’s bad against everything RN. From what I can see of DM it hasn’t got any better since range boost. It is probably still the best anti aircraft SPAA, while Pantsir does a better against enemy missiles.