Am I the only one wanting USS Washington or USS North Carolina as version of 1942(especially battle of Guadacanal) as an iconic battleship? USS Washington is the only US battleship that clearly ‘sunk’ enemy battleship in 1 vs 1(tough +1 neutralized allies exist), and USS North Carolina is guardian of another legend, USS Enterprise and become the battleship with most battle stars.
Best armor layout for angling&no bofors that will bother angling would make them most tanky US battleship until USS Missouri or USS Wisconsin comes, which will be not this year.
(Besides, where did spoiler tab goes? I can’t hide image?)
there is still a problem.
IRIS-T is not a top, it’s a AIM-9 size missile, meaning it’s real active range is really low.
German also has a SLS system, and SLM is really too far, even active range.
I think because the Ito has only 12km range, Sweden gets the SLS system in addition. Every other nation has 11.3 or 11.7 AAs (I think the new AAs will get more range)
I found the list of suggestions in the forum but they are extremely long for Italy and UK. It is possible that a new TopTier AA has been suggested for the UK, but I have not found it
Skysabre, similar to the IRIS-T SLM but it uses the CAMM family of missiles and the basic one has an effective range of 25km which sure is longer then pantsir but I think the uk and everyone with a 10km range sam and below deserve a longer range sam
modern SPAA usually has more max range thanks to better ballistic planning and radar tech(and advertising), but a AIM-9 size missile is still hard to be comparable to things like VT-1.
but FNF and auto pilot is a big advantage, I believe you seen VT-1 and 95ya6 can’t follow a EFT in close range but Strela-10 can
so to match current top SPAA, we need things around 20km.
I just checked and you’re right, I can’t imagine how an IR missile of the Macbeth would get to a Ka-52 then…
I now have a question, how does the LOAL function work in real life? Is it launched and then the seeker starts to scan? If so, when does it decide to do so and does the air target have to be locked on by the vehicle or something to launch the missile on the LOAL function or can the SPAA launch missiles randomly and pray the missile locks on something? Also, frindly kills would increase.
similar. it’s just like ARH missile, but with IR seeker. the radar and FCS computer guide the missile to the target, before it get a lock.
but IR seeker is not so good at finding targets for it’s small FOV, so it’s not possible until this century, with modern radar and high speed datalink, which can provide very precision guide
I don’t expect more than 18km if they’re looking into tracking ranges of Kh-38MT and Hammer; they’re still using copy-paste AGM-65D stats and I feel that if fixed to their alleged IRL stats that they’d be worse.
It’s mostly unknown if it’ll work agains’t 5th generation seekers, President-S may have somewhat of a effect, just not to the extent to what we see now with current missiles in game.
