Sure it does… Hellfire is LOAL with exactly the same principle.
Look what tech tree its exclusive to :)
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one big issue i have with the threads about the Kh-38MT is that even if gaijin listens to the whining, what’s gonna replace it? the MT has been added to give an IR AGM to russia and out of all the possibilities to do so i think they did the right call by choosing the 38MT because if y’all think the MT isn’t real enough, the other options were the Kh-29D and Kh-25MTP, both of which never even left the drawing and are only barely mentionned, if anyone truly cares about realism then consider the other options are even less real.
Before y’all jump on me, yes, i’m a russian main, but that doesn’t mean i’m opposed to some Kh-38MT nerfs, however i don’t really see a need to do so, the only advantages the 38MT really have are it’s speed and IOG one of which is inherent to it being a Kh-38 and the later one being very simply countered by smoking and moving to cover, remember, ESS exists if you have it and you can smoke more than once.
No, GNSS will not give the MT LOAL, the ML is the most benefiting, but remember that the ML still isn’t getting LOAL in the sense a MMW brimstone fired in ripples would and the ML is in 2/3 carriers limited by the carrier’s lack of an actual wide azimuth guidance, yes, this becomes less relevant with distance but this has to be considered when you have to notch air and ground launched ARH’s or missiles from AA’s like the IRIS-T SLM which will strongly limit the ML’s usability.
yes so 3 options, none of which have any documented testing or proof that they existed in a functioning state and gaijin decided to use the least balanced possible option
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which is also the least irrealistic as the other ones never even left paper, the 38MT at least has a mockup to model it from, the other’s don’t even have that
really? because from the performance goals in one of the brochures 38mt wouldnt be able to track tanks pretty much at all due to poor thermal resolution, so how is adding it in its current state the most realistic option
because there is at least something regarding the MT, there may not be much more than mockups and brochures but that’s a LOT more than nothing except very rare mentions with no pictures and an abandonned project.
As for the seeker performance, this is simply a copy paste of all IR F&F seekers.
No nation is entitled to a capability. The brits don’t use IR FnF missiles on the ground but you dont’ see gaijin making up a weapon to fill that gap do you?
Furthermore, what is currently modelled is so far beyond its own marketing brocure it would make 1980’s pravda editors blush.
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you say that when im pretty sure ive seen pictures that claim to show a KH-25MTP seeker
not my point, i’m saying that since gaijin wants to give the russian tree an IR AGM, then this is the least bad option. remember that before the 38MT arrived, the most potent missiles in the tree were the Kh-29TD which i’m pretty sure you’re aware are a lot less potent than something with an IR seeker.
this is as far as it goes
is still kinetically superior to agm65 to an insane extent and is the best air to ground weapon for china, so why exactly does russia get special treatment to give them a fictional air to ground missile that vastly out preforms anything else in the game and breaks gaijins own rules about weapon additions
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im pretty sure ive seen something else too, but that is already as much info as there is for kh38mt
it’s not all about kinematics, the seeker is the limiting factor of the 29TD along with 2/3 of it’s carriers (at least in the ru tree) lacking TGP’s making the usage even worse.
yes that is not the only relevant factor but with its significantly better kinematics and warhead it already is contemporary to agm65d which has a better seeker but unreliable warhead and much higher chance to miss or be intercepted
It. Doesn’t. Matter.
If that’s what Russia has, then thats what Russia has. Russia players wanting a good IR weapon is no excuse for creating a fantasy weapon.
And no, this is not the least bad option. Introducing a grossly overpowered weapon is never the least bad option.
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i’m not gonna talk too much about the warheads as i’ve not had only good experiences with the warheads of the Kh-38Mx’s, as for the missing, i don’t have an aircraft with mavs so i’m not gonna talk 'bout that.
don’t get me wrong the TD is defenetly usable but it is often limited by the seeker and carriers.
as opposed to creating another grossly op weapon out of even thinner air? my point is that it could’ve been worse as the Kh-29D and Kh-25MTP are to my knowledge even less real.
there is the same level of information on all three, and neither Kh29D or 25MTP would be as blatantly overpowered as 38MT is
