i was on abt the MMW part, gaijin has said they wont add it due to the lack of evidence about how to stop broken arrow situations yet there is plenty and the only reason is because a typhoon or tornado can carry what 16 of these missiles and making them F&F and impossible to dodge without hard cover is a balancing issue, and people will kick off if MMW is added to ARMs but not brimstones
Only possible if the close range air defense didn’t shoot most of them down (looking at the new pantsir lol).
To be fair we already have MMW in anti-ship missiles… MMW in air to ground is obvs different and there’s no real counterplay except trying to shoot it down. Good luck with the latter lol
ARM =/= MMW
The question will be whether or not ARM gets LOAL
Which in-turn then could raise questions regarding MMW in the future.
Especially as LOAL was one of the excuses they used to deny giving Brimstones FnF.
Other issues, such as defending against them, could be mitigated by just giving smoke with chaff, now Brimstones shouldnt be affected by that, but when has that ever stopped Gaijin.
Pantsir is only eating because people refuse to do pop up attacks.
Pop up attacks (from my experience) are all that Eurofighter CAS players do (before SPICE 250). They’re quite effective now with just Laser guidance. I can’t imagine what 16 FnF Brimstones would be like.
dont see many people using ASMs as air-ground ordinance, but yea, what 16 f&f missiles that cant be dodged with smoke, and needs either an aps or hard cover to block is insane but people will rage over the fact other air-ground weapons get MMW but brimstones dont
I don’t really see the problem anymore since the Gripen E already has 16x FnF IR+GNSS glide bombs. Not as effective as rockets but nonetheless good bombs (even more so if they would get their top-down attack path already) ^^
the AGM-88E has a MMW seeker for terminal guidance, i was talking abt that part, sorry i didnt make it clear before
Yeah
Issues were
Quantity(near equal amount added onto other aircraft already)- LOAL (Does have possible LOBL modes of operations + gaijin can just go work of fiction again, ARM will ahve to be a wait and see)
- Defence (Give all smoke chaff that works vs all MMW)
- TK (Just made up nonsense, dont fire at teammates and you wont kill teammates)
It likely wont get it then, instead im guessing most if not all ARM will just be C&P of each other in how they’ll track a radar contact. Difference only being what frequency they can track (if they can be bothered with that but given it would buff the Pantsir the most, it will probably be modeled)
Gaijin has the opportunity to do the funniest thing and give Russia the fastest ARM lol
the reason why MMW terminal seekers were added was to combat power-off tactics, how would we counter that if modern ARMs were added without their passive radar like on ALARM or their MMW on AGM-88E/G, since ppl want modern ARMs added before legacy
I am 100% expecting them to get the best in all respects and critical features of other ARM being denied because “game limitations” like the ALARM loiter mode
Most will likely just get IOG, switch the radar off and the missile will just go for the last known location
Poor man’s MMW lmao
EDIT: ARMs have GPS iirc, so they default to that if the radar goes off until it turns on again and repeat
Im guessing that would heavily depend on the ARM.
Like I dont think ALARM has GNSS.
apparently from ive just researched, ALARM is only mach 2 same with AGM-88E/G while Krypton is mach 3.5-4
Nah it doesn’t. It also wouldn’t need to given it cosplays as a high altitude hot air balloon before diving on a recently turned on radar
Yeah, but im seriously doubting that loiter mode is gunna be modeled.
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only time will tell, but i doubt NATO will get anything modeled it like it is IRL, but CSTO and other eastern will
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