It has the same thruster as the AGM-65G we have in game and that only produces 185 m/s of delta V and it is a higher caliber than the KH-25 at 304.8mm vs 275mm so it will bleed speed faster in general.
Please keep projecting, I’ve yet to see you use a paveway at the same distance effectively and last I checked we never set the baseline for the target to begin with.
It’s also 30 lbs lighter than the G. If you want to do the math, that’s fine, but point is made. I mean, if america doesn’t have any equivalent or better, then that’s it.
And the AGM-65G has a lot more than 10km effective range.
The main limit for the AGM-65E will be the laser lock range, which at the moment is capped at 10km. Unless it has inertial guidance as well, then it can be fired from further out.
IRST-auto tracker tracking is not a type of guidance, thats a sight, the KH-25ML is a Semi-Active Laser Homing missile using a SLAH seeker, nothing you can say will make this otherwise.
I also see that you chose to use the KH-29L and not the KH-25ML that I used, nice, you will find the latter to be vastly superior as it has much better delta V than the rather terrible 381 m/s of the KH-29L.
Not really no, the D can push out to 10km on most airframes without much issue (bar the A-10 unless you climb for 30 minutes), but the added weight of the warhead change on the G heavily hampers it’s flight performance unless you are already in low earth orbit which at that point paveways have the same effective range as mavericks due to gravity doing the work for you, bar paveways not actually acquiring the track until 3.657km still which is annoying and in part why the AGM-123 that is coming is extremely weird to deploy as it is extremely easy to just never have your ordinance acquire the track.
Speaking of the 123, behold one of the worst delta Vs of any missile in the game.
It doesn’t have IRST you cretin
And i used the 29 becuase its OHK range is larger than the 25 despite it still needing a direct hit prety much
On the Su-25 and Su-25K it is entirely guided manually it cannot lock onto a tank
I never said it did, as I have now reiterated twice, the KH-25ML is not a manually guided missile is it a Semi-Active Laser Homing missile, which you claim is a MCLOS missile.
Top tier ground compression. Just like all nations, 11.3s that are actually 11.3 worthy suffer greatly against the 11.7s that really should be more like 12.3. This is not a US only problem, but the US is one of 7 nations that probably does actually lack a 12.3 worthy MBT. Only nations that have one currently are Sweden, Germany and Russia. Italy I think will be joining that list next major though.
SPAA gaps. This again is not a unique issue. Britain has just as large holes, if not larger. But many nations suffer from a lack of adequate SPAA at many BRs
ADATS. Britain shares this pain. A dedicated top tier SPAA is needed ASAP rather than the ATGM launcher we both currently have. Israel also needs a top tier SAM.
Whilst yes the US can get more IFVs and MBTs. So does every nation. Britain and Israel are finally getting our first 10.0+ IFV this update. France needs to be next