No it’s really in such a sad state, unless gaijin fixes its radar and gives it the I-Derby ER its on the low end of SPAA capabilities still. If they won’t do that, the best option would be to add the SPYDER MR/LR systems in the mean time, as they would have the longer range AAMs for sure and different radars that may not get butchered…
F-14A late confirmed
F-14D early confirmed
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+F-14D Tomcat
I thought it had the best radar out of all the new top tier SPAA?
FWIW, A lot of the decent top tier players that I have watched have mentioned that while no HMD is a negative, it’s not that big of a deal. So I’d classify HMD as non-important.
That being said, @Morvran while Japan got a new SAM, it’s a sidegrade to the existing one as it still lacks range that is needed to actually make ARHs useful. It’s also missing plenty of features like IR datalink and LOAL. I think they should still be frontrunner for a new SAM like the Type 03 or at the very least, fix the current issues that it has (as well as the buggy stuff in general that TADS/TEL vehicles are plagued with).
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on the note of china i am kinda surprised we haven’t seen the F-CK-1 series yet as that would fit rather nicely into the 13.3/13.7 area imo
well iam a sim play and in sim it is quite the deal breaker i have to say
I’ll have to take your word on that as I haven’t played SIM yet. Though, I’d think SIM would be ideal place for using vertical ACM as a stand in for HMD as I’d imagine you’d have more secluded dogfights like in GRB.
Japan did still get something though.
Sure, its got issues like the Spyder. Sure it can get buffed. But something is still more than nothing.
First priority has to be Italy and Britain getting something.
Followed by France getting something new and Japan and israel getting bug fixes.
If those bug fixes dont work. Then they get something better.
there are pretty specific situations where ACM isnt fast enough
for example counter fireing at a guy at relatively close ranges
When is spada 2000 coming for italy bruh
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or GRIFO System with CAMM-ER
Saying Japan got something with the Type 81 TADS is like giving a C&P ADATs to Britain with a buggy CAPTOR-M and saying they got something lol. The only good feature for the TADS right now is the ability to basically spawn 2 SPAA and them being able to maddog ARHs. There’s no point to using the radar when all it does is alert CAS outside of your range.
I assume you mean to actually target as the ACM itself is super fast (some would say too fast when you’re trying to change modes and there’s targets in front of you)
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yes that is what i mean
the ACM is pretty good, yes but it isnt that useful in certain situations
for example a guy at around ~10km 50° of to the side
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dont know why they didnt add sky sabre or GRIFO last update, the iLauncher is pretty much the exact same as the IRIS-T SLM (pretty sure CAMM iLauncher is capable of launching iris-t).
They wouldn’t even need to add the radar because it is in theory able to work standalone with the IRST module
I dont think it would have been quite that simple. But yeah…
Completely stupid they didnt give everyone something and didnt even prioritise the nations without top tier SAMs first like Italy
It should be, but it doesn’t work. IRL the SPYDER AiO has 4 seperate radars, but ingame it only has one functioning one and the other 3 almost act as fake radars on the radar screen. It’s obviously a bug, but one that has yet to be fixed.
what?
israels highest tier AA was 9.7
I swear if Japan misses out on sub trees because of some China addiction I will flip.
China already has both Chinas and can get NK.
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Could this be tied to something for next update or some form of event?