I’ve not actually seen one to test it, but based upon the fact its hotter than an F-5. I doubt the IRST in the Stormer HVM would struggle to lock onto it
Okay, we’re comparing my experience from 99 battles to your experience from watching YouTube.
I find it a bit odd there’s a secert Russian Day sale (secert as in not advertised because hey, obvious reasons) but there is no US sale despite being the 14th being the 250th birthday of the US Army. The Clickbait, KVT, RDF-LT , and XM-1 could have gotten a bundle sale. Not really beating the bias claim.
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July 4 2026 needs to be a huge sale
Not even that, just common sense.
The IR reduction stuff doesnt work to the degree it should and the US mains complain about it enough on the forums that neither the RCS reduction or IR reduction dont work properly.
Its been tested and shown that the F-117 is (or at least was) hotter than an F-5 on reheat.
After that its just common sense.
Only 2x GBUs. No Guns or missiles for self defence, so vulnerable to any CAS or CAP in the air. No RWR or CMs so cant do anything if an SPAA or CAS/CAP get a lock. Not even supersonic. I doubt Id struggle to deal with one in the Stormer HVM unless it was physically out of range and that is nothing unique to the F-117 and I have seen them once or twice in GSB and I dont recall them being immune to the 2S6s or OSAs that redfor have.
Overall its a very niche aircraft that seems pretty pointless to take into GRB in its current state
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A very interesting observation from someone who doesn’t play GRB much and doesn’t own a plane xdd
So im wrong and it has RWR, CMs, Guns, Missiles, is supersonic and is 100% immune to radar and IR locks?
Did I say otherwise?
I only said that it’s a good aircraft, which I confirmed with my statistics. Yes, I only have 100 battles, but with very good results for an aircraft with only two bombs.
I don’t understand what you’re arguing about. You don’t like it, you don’t have it, you don’t play GRB, so why is it so important for you to prove that it’s bad?
He doesn’t have it, but that doesn’t stop me from having only 20 deaths per 100 battles. I think he’s pretty much invisible xdd
You said you were suprrised by why people dont play it much. I was stating why. Its really niche aircraft that has a ton of limitations and is underperforming loads. Compared to other CAS aircraft at the same BR range like the Jag or A-10 its pretty vulnerable.
Id still account this more to either people being bad at countering CAS or the fact that SPAA/CAP tends to be reactive, so you might get 2x Bombs off before someone spawns in something to deal with you. The fact you have died 20 times tells me its not immortal and that is the point I was making. The IR signature is still WAY too hot and the RCS reduction isnt as great as people expect it to be and thus the 2 stack up to make an aircraft without CMs and RWR quite vulnerable.
IR signature overhaul would help a lot as it is hotter than an F-5 on reheat and really shouldnt be and further improvements to RCS modeling wouldnt hurt either. Fixing that would help turn it from a niche, meme aircraft, to one people may actually take more often to GRB.
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I hope in the.next update they finally do something about the sorry state of USN boat camo, and maybe the USA tanks like M47 M60 and M103 that look like total garbage 🙄
I can definitely see how your Jag handles the load better. There’s a big difference in the opponents in GRB 10.0 and 10.3. You’d know this if you played more often.
I never said he was immortal. But all 20 deaths happened after the first bomb was dropped. That was when the enemy knew about me and was actively looking for me. And this is the result of other planes, not SPAA.
So at 10.0 you never ever face SAMs that can counter you but at 10.3 every SPAA you face can?
I mean that 10.0 more often plays with lower BRs and is more likely to see a ZSU-23-4M4 than even Osa, for example.
And yet no Osa has shot me down xdd
In datamines we’ve Leo Major for a Picture Profile, when’ll it be available in game ? We got our Moments of Valor for Canada, Leo Major was in the video (First seconds of the beginning)
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I can confirm that the Stormer HVM can lock onto, and destroy the F-117 reliably (at least for Starstreak standards), I’ve done it a few times now. But It is very hard to shoot-down a plane which people don’t use in their lineups.
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still wild to me just how bad this update is looking to be
I’m sure everything that’ll make it worth it is just hiding until the update goes live.
the moment they said that italy and the UK arguably some of the worst lines at top tier werent getting any forms of buff, SPAA or new vic it was destined to be a terrible update, the idea of only rolling out half of these new spaa is insane as well
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Still not as bad as Hornets Sting
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Must have been some horrible enemies, because fhe F-117s are usually the most free kills out there in ground RB.