This is not true. I will be making a separate topic regarding this common misconception.
1)Nobody flies 5km away from SPAA systems at Top Tier games.
2) We all know how ‘reliable’ Wikipedia/Encyclopedia articles are. Gaijin will not accept such source as reliable (even though the information is probably reliable for specific LDIRCM system)
3) The maneuver takes less than a second. Tilt the helicopter so that the dome is exposed. This is how I do it all the time anyway. I fly keeping such attitude (to guarantee DIRCM coverage). When I see a launch or get MAWS warning I bank the helicopter away from the launch. At this point the IRIS-T seeker is effectively supressed before even being activated and before being able to get initial target image. (I have explained this in the other topic in detail).
The system can also tell if the supression has been effective by following the missile’s trajectory.
According to the President-S advertisement, the system can distinguish between Radar guiuded and IR guided missiles. I suspect it either works together with the RWR or it simply checks missile’s trajectory to determine type of missile. The system is advertised to be able to tell if supression of IR missiles is effective (again, most probably by simply measuring the current trajectory).
They do, they mainly choose to spawn the closest helipad whoch ots like 5-6km away and even get closer, bc they are confident in their invulnerability. I also have some few videos that show this if you want.
Even if they choose to ignore articles, its still common sense, the ldircm will never instantly fool incomming missiles like if a magic shield like ingame.
Less than a second to face the ldircm in your belly at an incoming missile from above??
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Define ‘above’. Ingame most of the time the IRIS-T missiles come at ~40 degree angle. For me ‘above’ would be something north of 70 degrees.
its still common sense, the ldircm will never instantly fool incomming missiles like if a magic shield like ingame.
Is it? What if the missile is iluminated by the LDIRCM even before having its seeker turned on? Some ground launched missiles enable their seeker mid flight, meaning they might not even be able to get initial image or track using their own seekers and have to rely entirely on Inertial or other guidance channels.
We do not have this feature ingame tho. Its lock-after-launch, and you do not use this kind of feature in targets so close to the launcher.
45 angle or more. The longer the distance, the flatter the missile trayectory. For example, Irist and spyder have a 90 degree launch, so the missile will get at a higher angle depending the distance of the target.
you do realise MI28 LDIRCM works in an almost 360 cone right? datamines already show what angles its capable of defeating missiles even though it shouldnt be working against anything above the rotary blades
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What angle it comes in at is irrelevant when it still manages to work in an area it physically shouldnt be working in but because of gaijins brilliant coding this is what we have atm
Now matter how they update it, it will still work in similar fashion: Incredibly effective against aircraft and poor performing against helicopters. It seems to me Gaijin want to promote the usage of multiple types of AD systems at the same time: for example BUK/IRIS-T for planes and large ordnance, and ItO/ADATS/Pantstir/Flarak for helicopters and smaller missiles.
And it shouldnt be like that.
Im talking about coverage irl