What does that entail?You can only prepare for where they might come from and relocate (although that is risky). There really isn’t much you can do other than that.
Mavericks is the best option. A7D is my go-to option for the platform
Kh25s from the frogfoot is good but it requires you being 1inch away from the monitor, and a lot of skill to use it quickly enough but overall the A7D is better when it comes to popup attacks.
For helicopters, I’d use the Kiowa with hellfires.
this ultimately might come from experience but I have yet to miss when going against a drone using the PPI at those ranges. when manually guiding it, I have missed a couple.
It’s more so to do with firing a manpads near a large oil fire. Seeker probably got confused between the oil fire and the small drone engine.
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Exactly that.
Probably are, but they have their cons and are pretty easy to hide from.
Same as above.
Targeting system has like 1x zoom that makes you identifying targets from any decent range almost impossible. Laser one is pretty useless.
Missing a drone in any scenario should be a sign something’s up with your missile.
But it’s a bit limiting, no? Especially if there’s more than one enemy in the sky.
When launched from 10km, sure but when doing pop up attacks it give enemies two options. try to get behind cover which may not always happen due to a map or the vehicle you’re in. Or try to intercept which is much more reliable though it requires keeping an eye on your radar.
You’ll be surprised how usable it is at short to medium range. what makes the kh25 really good is how maneuverable and fast it is which makes it really good at popup attacks. though this is much more dependent on map, weather, and time of day than the mavericks.
sure but so is not being able to counter everything else. Just like MBTs, you shouldn’t judge them on a single aspect.
No, especially if I have friendly fighter just camping their spawn.
Launching them from that far out means you’re pretty safe against AAs and the only thing they can do is try to shoot your AGMs down. That’s the war of attrition CAS is definitely winning at.
If you don’t use a mountain to hide behind for your pop up attack, you’ll launch your missiles with a very shallow angle towards the ground vehicles, meaning it’ll be easy to break lock of your IOG-less missile, causing it to kiss the ground way earlier than anticipated.
At short range it definitely is good, but at that point you’re opening yourself up to close range AAs like Strela.
Not to mention KH-25s found there are Laser guided, so engaging multiple enemies in a single pass is very hard.
I’m not.
2S6 is good at shooting down missiles but for engaging CAS vehicles there are better options out there at a lower BR.
That’s entirely dependent on your team spawning in CAP and the same thing can be said about the enemy team to. Inevitably, you will be facing against more than a single CAS at a single time.
Well you said it yourself, mavericks at that range are extremely slow which is extremely easy to dodge and move out the way (knowingly or unknowingly)…
This is excluding the fact that the only agm that can track at those distances in the agm-65D which is found on the A-10. Others are stuck with the A’s or B’s which only start tracking around 5-6km
how low are you firing mavericks and which targets are you firing at? If a target is already behind trees, and you try to fire an agm at him, that’s a mistake on your end. If you know the target you’re firing at is gonna lose LOS, that is also a mistake on your end.
When doing popup attacks, you go for targets where you have full LOS.
Also popup attacks doesn’t entail you sticking low to the ground. You just need prevent yourself from being seen until the last the minute.
Hence why you use it in conjunction with popup attacks.
No arguing there, but they offer much more consistent one shots and colats than mavericks.
But you are. I wouldn’t go arguing that the 292 is better than the Abrams because it has more pen and I’m sure you wouldn’t too.
Just like the Abrams, the 2S6 is good in some aspects and average in others. The Strella and OSA, are excellent in a single aspect and terrible in others.
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Both the osa and strela cannot engage munition in my experience ive yet to get a lock on a missile with the osa, rolands can do it fine, rapier can do it fine, youre 100% right
Same thing for more than a single enemy CAS.
Flying low means that LoS can be broken much more easily.
If the terrain is flat then you’ll have to fly relatively low.
Yes, 2S6 is good against munitions.
If you actually want to shoot down planes, just take something else.
exactly, so it’s a pointless argument to make. Not sure why you’re moving the goal post from spaa vs cas to cas vs cap.
When it comes to long range attacks, yes LOS , short range no. FnF needs LOS in order to launch. so if you launch at enemy, and they aren’t behind/moving into cover, it’ll hit. It has the speed to hit targets at medium range. If you think LOS will be an issue, you will briefly angle your nose up and launch to help it launch
You gotta name me a map where the terrain is completley flat, and has no other LOS obstructions (trees, mountains, and buildings).
What maps are you thinking of? the closest one I can think of is the large variant of Sinai and fire arc but even there are plenty of places where you aren’t restricted to tree places
So you’re saying the Abrams is bad then? Because I could’ve sworn you say the complete opposite in different threads.