the actually problem is energy, especially for IRIS-T, it’s still a aam without extra booster, though modern rocket will give it a good start energy, but still can’t compete with real SAMs like VT-1 or 95YA6(in energy), and tvc also causes energy loose.
12km range is a self destruct limit, I guess it’s real active range is around 6km
is there any public figures regarding burn time on iris-t ?
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SAAB’s website said it has a speed of Mach3, quite low for air launch. after all, it’s AIM-9 size, so the propellant is very limited
I guess it won’t be a top SPAA.
Still gets outranged hard by CAS though, like it’s not even funny.
Sadly yes, however it removes the need to guide it manually, so you can focus more on repositioning.
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I think it won’t be top, consider that its range could be closer to Chaparral
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That is fair. The new SPAA are just part of what gives me a very bad feeling that this will be another boring update for ground.
I feel like if the swedish spaa that was teased is the benchmark for performance, that the new SPAA will massively dissapoint and that all other new ground vehicles will also just be boring filler.
The Type 81 is 11.7 so anything with IRIS-T will be at least that BR.
closer range for a radar, not so bad
Eh Type 81 is also mostly 8 km max range. So I think range should be equal or slightly better on IRIS-T equipped SPAA.
They siad multiple nations will get new SAM at once. I wonder what nations that will be.
We know Sweden and China, possibly Germany. Nations needing SAM the most are: Israel, Japan(tho it might fit the F&F theme, and be excluded from this), UK, USA. I wonder what they will do.
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I think it’s a little hard for a AIM-9 size missile to get 8+km moving target
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I hope they would at least give these nations a new SAM system this update, what worries me is if they will be on a similar level. The Chinese one already seems to be much more capable than the Swedish new SPAA.
Not sure if I would laugh or cry if Israel wasn’t one of the first nations to get a new AA.
I mean neither can the Type 81 in game really. It really doesn’t like hitting moving targets beyond 7-8km.
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I’m really hopeful that they’ll add the SLAMRAAM for the USA
It can also use the AIM-120B, but the AMRAAMs in the image above are AIM-120C-8s iirc. Also, of course, it has 2x AIM-9Xs for close range targets.
Also there are better IRIS-T SL variants with longer range missiles that we can get besides the SLS
Oh yeah there’s also a Boxer with IRIS-Ts, although it’s just a concept at the moment afaik
Boxer IRIS-T
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On that note, i need to point out that everyone assumed it is type 625E, but it might be just 625
Worse missiles. 10km max range.
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the FB-10 is already in datamine, but not 10A, this is strange, but I think it’s more possible to have 625E
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Doesn’t this assumption come from the 625E’s missiles being found in the files a couple months back?
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10A is the E missile
So if FB-10 was found, it would point to 625
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I must have missed that.
Oh I’m not stating that as fact, I was inquiring lol. Could have worded that comment better.
I just recall there being lots of hype / talk about 625E before the previous major because it had a missile asset in the files - but I’m not sure if that missile was exclusive the E or not