We already have LOAL in game on for example IRIS-T (base one, no DL), so yeah
I mean, that’s for a SAM
Dunno, I feel like they are gonna go the same way as they did for ATGMs with LOAL for air to air missiles
I do believe they will, I don’t see a reason why not. I know it’s been speculated that next-gen IR missiles would be limited to LOBL, but it doesn’t make much sense to me to basically introduce sidegrades of R-27ET essentially.
I mean, it’s all ready most the way there, I just hope they add proper self search modes, particularly if they do add shared aperture sensing for IRs with datalink, it will give non datalink gen 5s a much more realistically even playing field.
Basically, when the track is lost due to countermeasures or interfearence, instead of just going for said countermeasures, the missile should enter a search pattern using inertial information to search a wide area around where the target is expected to be.
LOAL IR A2A missiles do work, i’ve tested them in user missions, the only thing i’ve noticed (with them and no lock required ARH launches). Is that they’re very easy to just, miss.
IE they really do need proper self search modes imo.
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I can see two reasons why not
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It’s too hard for Gaijin to bother with it
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They might see it as being imbalanced or bad for gameplay
(I don’t think it would necessarily be bad for gameplay btw, it’s just something I could absolutely see them say, based on what they did with ATGMs)
Do you happen to have a link to a user mission to test them?
I’d be very interested to see how they uccrently work
If that would be their reasoning, why wait several years to add basically something that would compete with R-27ET though? They could have introduced it much sooner since it would have much less effective ranges.
It’s very buggy, and clearly not in a finished state, as while you can force the seeker to receive inertial designations, you can’t activate it outside of normal means. So either you can force the missile to have a permnantly active seeker, or you can trick the missile into activating by turning on then off your radar.
Fun fact, that second method is actually close to a bug you can do in game. Basically on F-15s with RAM mode, you can lock a target in STT, turn on a SARH seeker, then swap to RAM mode, and the missile while fire even while receiving no guidance. Sadly no 7Ps on the F-15 to actually make use of it though. Fun little quirk of RAM not having illumination, but still technically being a radar designation source type.
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Probably because of the IIR seekers (dunno if the electro optical seekers would also factor in)
Ah, aight
That sounds a bit like the weird fake LOAL implementation on the Hellfire missiles
yeah gaijin seems to be somewhat scared to make the IRCCM of missiles better
iirc every single missile with IRCCM is underperforming in that regard due to balancing
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The IIR seekers are not too bad to flare off. They’re dual band like Stingers in-game.
I don’t think their current implementation has anything to do with Gaijins hesitancy to add IIR missiles to planes
arab league tree pls
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The Q&A and specifically the comments on the ARB EC mode and other game modes just proves how out of touch gaijin is with their own playerbase half the time.
Either that or they know what people want and choose to ignore it. Both are equally as likely at this point…
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im pretty sure they think we’re stupid
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They are like Blizzard when people asked for Classic servers for WoW and Blizzard told them
“You think you want that, but you don’t”
lol
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And african tree with Ethiopia
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It’s just Su-35
Nearly identical not really
Adapted to Chinese weapons