That’s wrong. It has a 40 km effective range, not max range, and was in testing perfectly capable of hitting a manoeuvring target at 30km out at an altitude of 12km and reached said target in around 60 seconds.
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Is that source used in a report ? If not, it should be added quickly so that the devs can maybe decide to move their ass
It is already in a report along with all the other sources we do have(secondary sources) stating the speed of the missile is somewhere above mach 3. The devs simply do not care or have mistaken ‘effective range’ as ‘max range’ due to a translation error and now dig their heels in to prevent CAS from having a bad time.
Same with the IRIS-T not giving much of a damn about LDIRCM. That they also sit on and don’t even address it in the bug report despite it being addressed explicitly in the source.
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I’m pretty sure it’s not that, since it’s max range isn’t even close to 40km in game.
I do wonder what they use to model the missile, because SLM currently do not conform in anyway, shape or form, to what is claimed IRL.
And even then it’s not a copy paste of the SLS which they could have done temporarily until they modeled it correctly.
I’m afraid they are purposefully nerfing the SLM because its performances would be to high, not just by its ability to deny CAS itself, but also compared to all other systems in game.
Which would just be another Gaijin adding a vehicle at the wrong time moment
Cue Leopard 2A7V (everyone who knows anything about it said it was way too early to add) which still misses up to 180mm of frontal hull protection, same as the PSO because they refuse to believe that internal D-Tech armour in the hull is a thing or in use.
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While this does give some insider infos, I find this to be very ragebaity (the German discord can attest to what happened yesterday lol).
« Yet, they are going to ignore them ».
Unless the leaker is a dev, which I would doubt, as he probably get his infos from TM or devs without being one itself I would guess, this is just « copium ». Yes, they haven’t actionned any report yet, but update is still a week away basically. Things can change.
This leak was mainly here to create some drama imo
As the Kh-38MT is getting GNSS guidance on top of the IR seeker intercepting the SAMs won’t even be necessary.
Both the Su-30 and Su-34 can just outspam the SAMs from ranges where they are still almost untouchable.
If that is true, why even add new SAMs to begin with. (H)ARMs would render these already extremely vulnerable vehicles unplayable.
Well, it is what it is :)
At 12.0 the MiG-23ML(A/D) would still fight 11.0s tho?
Also, their 11.7 BR is completely fine from my experience.
Right. It’s s good thing I prefer 10.3 over the top tier circus anyways lol
GNSS doesn’t do anything significant on the 38MT.
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It will not be that bad, you will have to only manage 3 vehicles on a very limited space were the enemy ground forces are incapable of shooting you, while dodging and intercepting incoming munition and planes. It will be fine
Was it already possible to point launch them at near max range? If so, I guess it was pointless of me to bring it up
And it’s not like GNSS for IR seeker was still completely useless/broken. Only the laser variants might have a use for it, but as you said, KH38 is probably not going to have to capitalize on that. The missile is already so fast the carrier doesn’t have to stay in the open long enough to be threatened.
And I don’t think the average KH38 slinger has the skill to use the laser variant in such a way that they’d make use of the GNSS
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Yes, it is ML that gains the most of it.
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Sounds like a right proper good time :)
Trust me, it is annoying enough to manage 1 vehicle on some maps. But, 3? And even bigger? Its going to be so fun.
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