Dont know how your avoiding death wihtout flying high? I always climb to 6-8km around 15km out to lob my pgms. Any lower or closer and it gets more and more anoying trying to acquire targets without being shot out of the sky.
I rarely play the GR1 below 12.0 because Bluefor has no fighters at 11.7 unless you get a load of Mirage F1Cs on your team. The better engine, Aim-9M and HMD will mean you are more survivable at 12.0. So I dont think i’ll play the Gr1 over the Gr4. But yeah, convoy destroying was what I was hoping for the most.
Im gonna bet that the gr 4 will be 12.3 minimum in air. there is no way they put it at a decent br as its british. Im just glad i got a talisman on my gr 1 in anticipation. Although the only thing the tornado was missing was hmd so it may be okay.
I will say, the Kh-38’s were meant, along with adding the SM3 specifically, to give the USSR/RU something other than super close CAS done in earlier Su-25’s or shitty-gimbal LGB bombing (with either no defensive missiles, or only two bombs) in the MiG-27’s as a way to keep pace, to some degree with the orbital space bombardment that was/is meta in Top Tier GRB.
Without that, USSR doesn’t have good enough CAS to not be SPAA food, even if the Pantsir is better at AD against the enemy team.
The PGM is a stand off muntion though will the Brimstone accelerate off the rail fast enough to destroy the target before you are over the BF and then just dead?
Thats my main worry, whats the point of brimstones if they would have just been better on a heli. Your gonna be well within the envelope of spaa while your still guiding in the brimstones.
I just cant see why it would be higher than 12.0. Tornado MFG/WTD61/A200 are 11.3, then I just cant think of why Aim-9M+HMD would push it higher than 12.0. Gunna be weaker than the Mirage F-1C at least for A2A combat, especially in Sim and thats only 11.7 in sim.
But unless yeah, they just want to screw over Britain
Yes, and that would be fine. If all other nations got a decent equal to Pantsir at any point in the past 2 years.
Thats the thing you have to remember. ADATS can barely fight a switched on KA-52 with Vikhrs, let alone a Su-25T with KH-29s. Whilst thats not the case for all antion sure, China, France, Sweden even Germany could deal with Soviet CAS before. Israel, Britain, US, Japan Italy could not, not even close.
Now no one can. But the Pantsir is just as effective as it was before. Even aircraft like the F-16C and Gripen are no guarantees of victory
Your forgetting why the gr 1 is at 11.7 compared to the other tornados… its ground capabilities. I am fully aware it shouldnt but this is gaijin and they dont make educated decisions.
Tbh, I feel like adding the mmV Brimstones, if they really are as slow as Hellfires, probably isn’t too OP. They’d still struggle with the same issues that Kh-38’s do at range, and they’d still only be able to get into viewing range at roughly 18km as well.
It’s hard to explain how the Israelis have multiple Spike carrying helicopters with spam loads, and the Brits can’t even get 6x mmV Brimstones.