The longer range cruise missiles more pose challenges for other air modes more so than they do ground. In some cases, offering double + the range of KH-59ME.
Moving target acquisition has never really been a concern for them in the first place. KH-59ME is more of a gimmick than a practical weapon in a lot of cases for ground anyway.
Perhaps sometime in the future more advanced cruise missiles will come, but Storm Shadow / SCALP / Taurus are certainly not in the scope of this major. Thats for sure.
i personally dont think something being “just a gimmick” should mean that it doesnt need to be added. some things are just cool to see and that should be enough of a reason to add stuff, and not locked behind paywalls
also either missile will currently happily hit the other side of the map and since gaijin seems to not grasp the idea behind making larger maps the range argument doesnt really count (not exclusive to the storm shadow, just other reasonable missiles like that)
Thats precisely why KH-59ME and Sea Eagle is coming this major. However Storm Shadow / SCALP / Taurus are a level above this and not directly comparable in the same way.
functionally speaking within the confines of this game how differently would they perform? because having 250km range over 120km doesnt matter a whole lot if the target youre firing it at is 40km away at most
not trying to argue about this but im just curious as to why that is seemingly being overlooked
But even then, the KH-59ME can already cover ~⅔ of the diagonal on even the largest maps, and I don’t think there’s any mode where any opposing air fields are noticably further appart than 120km. So that additional range just doesn’t matter in game at all
that isnt really a concern when the maps themselves arent even big enough for the KH-59ME if the maps were like 380km squared then sure that makes sense but when the biggest maps are to small even for the KH-59ME its kinda a weak argument for why longer range cruise missiles cant be added
not to mention the max anything can carry is 4 and thats on the tornado, the EFTs its only 2 as far as I am aware
Some are not 250km vs 120km but 250-500km vs 120km with other advances on board beyond just range. So certainly right now, its not the subject of this update.
considering Spear Glide was denied most likely not (ignore Spice 250 is in game and these 3 weapons are all IR guided glide bombs in the same weight category)
@Smin1080p_WT Just out of curiosity what about reintroducing Grom-1? I know a part of why it was not introduced was it’s range but seeing as we are now getting the KH-59 which has a range larger than most maps could we see it added back?
