M247 is honestly one of the more annoying SPAAs to fight in a plane at that BR range, no tracers mean you dont know of you are being shot at until you suddenly explode in midair.
Plus if you do know its up, harder to find it to counter it/avoid it, unlike gepards which spew a nice long line of tracers for you to see and avoid.
The XM246 is coming next patch and will fill this gap
I don’t see how this thing would ever go down in BR, it’s invisible with what feels like radio-fused shells make it super annoying to deal with.
Are you serious ?
M247 is much better for air targets than Gepard.
Because it’s about 3x as good as an SPAA as the ones currently at 8.3.
It’s not. The m247 is superior in spaa duty and only slightly worse at AT
Maybe not better but definitely close, because of the higher shell velocity. And it’s definitely better at g2g as its significantly faster than the m48 chassied m247
They aren’t even close when it comes to AA duties.
One has HE-VT that has no tracers while the other has none of that.
DEFINITELY better… M247 is miles ahead of gepard
What are you talking about??? The M247 is the strongest SPAA at 9.0. It’s a 2S38 equivalent at 1.3 BR lower, only downsides being worse anti-tank ability, worse mobility, and slightly less powerful HE-VT shell. I am using this because people often complain about 2S38, comparing OTOMATIC with it, etc. To put into perspective, M247 has HE-VT round with 1100 m/s speed, 190 g TNT equivalent, 4 m proxy range, while 2S38 has shell with 1000 m/s, 231 g TNT, 6 m proxy range.
Did I not mention M247 has good search and tracking radars?, as well as a much faster firerate?
If you do not have guided weapons, there is no chance against the average M247 player. Even with helicopters, there is little chance against the M247, as the air will be filled with proxy rounds, and M247 can even easily intercept ATGMs by simply firing at them. Even early AGMs are ineffective against M247. It’s easily one of the most effective SPAA at the BR, and would be more balanced at 9.3 instead.
M247 is actually god tier SPAA, followed by PGZ09, which is easily the only SPAAs that can reliably intercept nuke planes and no other SPAAs in that respective br will come close. But… I don’t mind it being lowered in br because, f*** CAS that’s why, they should apply the air spawn point system to SPAA, so we can spawn the York at 8.0 for 500 sp or Strela at 9.0 for 600sp lmao at least give ground mains some satisfaction if you are not going to add a ground only gamemode
What?
This thing is 2S38 levels of stupid.
If anything, it should go up instead.
No, if anything it should go down to 7.7 since it’s ground battles bro, it’s an extremely boring vehicle to play and we should reward anyone who is even willing to put their tanks aside and sacrifice their fun just to combat the unwanted cancerous air pest who continue to ruin the fun of playing ground vehicles, these Chad level SPAAs should be available at lower br and serve as a big FU signs to CAS spammers and deny their entry to tank battle field, they can have their dogfight, catfight or cowfight outside of the battle field for anybody care as long as they do it outside and stop interfering with people who just wanted to enjoy playing ground vehicles.
Sure.
Just delete the VT fuze ammo(which didnt work irl anyway) and bring it down to 7.7.
It will be a nice counterpart to the ZSU-37-2
@Guardian_on_Hill
Where are the proximity rounds on AMX-30 DCA?
M247 is balanced where it stands now.
When spawns a York, the CAS problem is over
No chace to do anything from air… Best AA in the game
Someone call the paramedics!
We have a patient for a mental hospital.
We are getting a U.S. 35mm 8.3 SPAA this update already, and the M247 with the VT fuze is incredibly powerful against planes and missiles. You can even take it up to top tier and still perform well, especially for point defense, which will finally be rewarded this update. Maybe they can give it an AP belt for better self-defense? It’s kinda odd it doesn’t have one since it should just be able to fire standard Bofors L/70 rounds.
god no
this thing is a monster!
lowering the BR would be wrong.
It’s my go to AA when i need air-kills, anything closer than 4 km is cooked unless it’s a really skilled pilot.
Rejoice, your saviour is here.