Major Update "Spearhead" - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 2)

oops translated already, understandable

Yeah… The old switcharoo.

At least the fact we got Centurion instead of King George V is a good sign though

this team carries a combined total of 222 missiles

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@Smin1080p_WT can you remember when air rb games went from 1 hour to 25 mins i cant find it in any change logs i have narrowed it down to late 2020 but cant find it

if anyone else has evidence of when it happend it would be nice to know

Is there no perceived issue to turn around refute MMW guidance wholesale when IR/MMW band smoke formulations are known to be possible on the basis of documentation for the Brimstone when it should have a much easier time dealing with the Longbow seeker, as they use fundamentally different frequencies and methodologies.

AGM-114L RF Hellfire is an air launched anti-tank missile fitted to the “Longbow”
Apache (W)AH-64D attack helicopter.
It has a 35GHz active radar seeker

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Brimstone will be used from a variety of strike aircraft.
Brimstone has a highly sophisticated 94GHz active radar seeker which affords a fire and-forget capability

"The advanced development program for the M81 grenade was conducted from 1987 to 1992. in the transition to full scale development, the Operational Requirements Document (ORD) required the grenade to provide IR and MM instead of just MM protection The Grenade, Launcher, Smoke: Millimeter/Infrared (MM/IR) Screening, M81 (Figure 17) was type classified in 1995 and is scheduled to begin production in 1998 "

Shouldn’t the should be individually considered, instead of on the basis of a 2nd generation system if they were to be individually modeled.

Further, as to response provided

Why does a specific formulation need to exist for each nation, could it not be made a universal feature as a “gaming convention”, it wouldn’t be the first or last time such efforts are made in relation to missiles, and the effectiveness of their seekers.

US Designed Electro Optical seekers should not be able to lock onto the ground

“Seekers like these can track optically contrast objects. As it is not possible to implement true contrast edge tracking in the game we allow seekers to lock on any point on the ground. So any point on the ground is considered contrast object.”

Therefore, this issue is considered resolved

Its good enough that an RWR only reaches into a given band to it to be conferred “extra” bandwidth for detecting emissions wholesale at the moment. Which of course is mostly due to a lack of sufficiently detailed bandwidth information for the majority of relevant systems

As to concerns with the performance of LOAL as raised could simply be treated like MITL guidance and just not implemented as with other PGMs.

AJ 168 Martel - Guidance Method
“Close the report based on the developers answer:
Man-in-loop mode will not be added. Self-guidance within the game is a gaming convention, not an error.”

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Guess y’all should’ve been more specific about which KGV y’all wanted XD

We were

I don’t get it.
Is that bad?

Neat, Buccaneer and Tonka getting Sea Eagles aswell.

  • Buccaneer S. Mk. 2B:

    • new loadout(s): 4x Sea Eagle
  • Tornado G.R. Mk. 1:

    • new loadout(s): 4x Sea Eagle
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Yep, Thank god. Would have been frustrating as hell to lock it behind the Hawk for the sake of it.

SHars are due to get them Soon™

Just need them to add Sea Eagles now, not the wierd Penguins they are at the moment

Flame's been hard at work

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@Smin1080p_WT Hi I don’t understand why, since it’s a different tree, Italy can’t have the Kormoran on the Tornado. The German Navy’s Tornado isn’t in competition with an Italian IDS in terms of market, sales, or anything like that.

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They can do this but Exocet and Harpoon get to rot away in the files still.

also this goes against their whole statement of “we are adding “x” asm to “x” because “x” doesn’t have many other options for air to ground” as Neither the Tonka or Bucc are really bad off for guided air to suface weapons so…

Again why cant they add Harpoon or Exocet to the airframes that carried them?

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Yeah, gatekeeping AS-34 now is really really dumb.

Especially when its the same aircraft… So no meaningful work needed

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Now that we are seeing ASM’s not being locked behind a single aircraft it would be neat if the Kormoran could be added to more than just the IDS MFG too.

It’s been in the game for almost 3 years now and we still don’t have it on other Tornado’s and the F-104G. Granted for like 2 full years they just didn’t work but still.

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Add this to the list as well. Gatekeeping weapons on event and premium vehicles is incredibly annoying.

Skipper and KH-66 are two other examples of this.

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What are anti-ship missiles even used for? ai targets on the few maps they exist have absurd damage control and they give you little rewards and have zero influence on the match. Gaijin just loves to add stuff without even putting in minimal effort into making them usable and fun…

Air Sim has had proper naval objectives for years and it would be tirival to add more naval targets to many ARB maps. Though their reward does need a boost

As for damage. Sea Eagle seems to do okay, sinking destroyers in 2 hits in test flight on the dev server (assuming that doesnt change) the issue is more where they hit, though they should disable flooding repairs for AI ships hit by ASMs

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Air sim should be getting more attention

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Yeah… officially been 3 years since we got a new map

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