Right, but that would be the same case for Spyder.
40km IRIS-T’s are only effective to like 20km in Warthunder.
40km I-Derby ER’s would only be effective to like 20km in Warthunder
So with that being equal, it still doesn’t really explain why Spyder is limited to 20km (8km effective) Derby SR’s.
SLM only has 8km? Because that’s where Derby’s become kinematically drained.
Then why complain about people asking for it if you don’t care?
Because I can still have a option plus it’s funny to see you lot kick off
How it feels to say Canada belongs in the US tree
I have no issues with it being added, I just see it as a useless addition since it already has a perfectly usable TGP.
They way everyone goes on about the Sniper pod you’d think it shoots deadly laser beams and makes you toast while it’s at it
How’d you mean ?
No nation belongs to another so that terminology is wrong
You know :)
20km? try 10, it currently already ineffective against anything that doing any evasive move above 10km
Well there is a eyesafe mode and not eyesafe mode for the laser designator
I know what you’re doing m8 lol
Mmm yes Warcrime’nt mode and Warcrime mode
Well eyesafe is specifically for urban operations and training afaik.
So its there to avoid warcrimes
The other mode is for when you run out of bombs to drop on goat farmers
Well the US should have known that part in the last century : P
Homelander treatment
It’s also hilarious how they are hyping the derby up in the devblog. As if the Python 5 isn’t just straight up better.
All these new SPAA should be having at least a ~15-16km effective range for me to not consider them a waste of development resources.
I don’t see it, they usually do that with prototypes.
I’d also be pissde if the swiss get only copy-paste in the regular tree.
Right? Like there’s just no use case for Derby?
Python is just straight up better in the same range envelope, (which is pretty damming given even Python is botched beyond belief - barely pulling 30g).
The only use case for Derby I can think of is against the DIRCM Heli’s? But we all know Heli’s have the RCS of a fruit fly so I can’t see that going well either, not to mention if they get within 4km you can’t hit them even with a lock.
Such a baffling decision to not make it an ER. Not only from a wider perspective of balancing the vehicle against top CAS, but also just to give some incentive to actually use a Derby over the P5.
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SLAMRAAM can hit high speed manuvering drone out to 20km
and given its AIM-120C-5 which somehow currently has the same ish speed as MIM-72, same with 9X which should have same range as Python 5
Spyder with SR would 100% reach 20km and ER more than 30km, Python 5 is around 10-15km
SLM would have up to 40km
some of the new missiles has less speed than mim-72 somehow
I’m fine with the ranges being somewhat reduced, but at least to still good levels.
If the sam ranges remain at this borderline useless ~8-10km effective range than it’s either deliberate CAS handholding from the devs or they have a significant misunderstanding of what the CAS problem truely is at top tier.
EDIT: hopefully we get an article after the dev closes that adresses this. Just like they did after the dev servers of some of the previous updates.