2-6k battles quite enough
I was hyped at first, I’ll gladly admit, but I’ll tell you Kh-29TE is good enough. Kh-38MT is probably actually worse than the ML. ML is the missile people are complaining about. If you can manage to point yourself in the right direction, it’s abusive, sure. But this level of flying is not easy at all in the SM3.
It’s not. SM3 with Kh-29TE is like the bare minimum to be competitive. 1. MiG-27K’s don’t get played hardly at all, look at that battle count. 2. 11.3 is the blessed USSR BR. Infinitely the best BR at high tier, so hard to lose there. That’s a lineup thing, not a MiG-27K thing.
In sim, you’re right. I watched Hunter play it in sim and I think it actually does better there. In RB, the spawn is already close enough that you need to direct yourself within “gimbal” so to speak, of the enemy spawn, assuming your RWR pings and you know they have SPAA. Then you have to find, lock, and fire. Which with a little weather or clutter is not automatic, hence why some people run the ML’s.
If you fire the T’s, you give yourself more time to retreat, but just getting into the right vector and acquiring a target takes long enough that you are usually in range. Panstir or not.
If you go ML, and SPAA intercepts the first ML, you are more than likely within range to get splashed.
That’s better than the good old days of sky-cancer guided bombing where a JAS-39 could just sit at 3000m+ and drop GBU’s on me from a distance, and then side climb away from me at about 12km away, and I can’t hit him at that rate by then even with my “amazing” Pantsir.
It’s not a popular opinion with non-USSR players, but the SM3 is balanced.
Im just hoping we can get equivalents for other nations soon.
Like Harrier GR9A with Brimstone
As long as it’s interceptable, I don’t see why not.
As far as I am aware. Only the Pantsir is able to consistantly intercept incoming ordinance.
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AGM-65’s are do-able in the 2S6, but it’s not easy.
Hellfires are interceptable in the Pantsir depending on angle, quite reliably. But it’s a pisser too because you get 12 missiles, and most choppers are running 16+ missiles, so at some point teammates start dying.
And you get nothing for it. No medals, and no recognition. Just someone wondering why some Pantsir keeps firing at nothing (you don’t see the helicopter) and why are the missiles exploding in mid air (must be bugged).
Yep. So again, thats the other big part of it.
A Pantsir can shoot an AGM-65, PGM, as you said even a hellfire out of the sky. I dont think other nations can also do that. At least not without a huge amount of luck.
This in-turn makes the KH-38 even stronger. Because it will always get through
I’ve never hit one, but I’m sure it’s doable.
You have to know where they are coming from. They are not immediately apparent.
Kh-29’s appear (at least from my experience) to be as interceptable by the ITO (at least) as AGM-65’s are by 2S6/Pantsir. I don’t think this is a controversial advantage/disadvantage.
I haven’t had any intercepted yet, but I’ve had more of them detonate in mid-air than I’ve had with any other guided USSR AGM thus far. They aren’t perfect.
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Tbh I’d prefer an Su-30M with 4 or 6 or whatever the max loadout is, of Kh-29TE’s, than having thermal on the Su-25SM3. It barely makes a difference, and I’d rather have a fast and maneuverable multirole instead tbh.
its so hard flying when no aircrafts in battle at all because of pantsir, and you have rwr and auto-flares
so hard…
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try to play something, instead of ussr
try do 2KD for 50 battles for example on Tornado?
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Hey, the all holy-never-wrong-gaijin-confirmed-100%-accurate spreadsheet says next week Friday devblog.
Kinda feels blog season already in sight.
If the update comes late May, then that’s possible, however it’s usually early-mid June, so a better guess is two to three weeks from now.
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I see.
Anyone have a better guess for the next Aircraft event than May 8th + 1 month so also around June 10th?
According to the roadmap, wherw second update and summer update are different entities, i would assume we will see update before summer
“summer update” is 3rd there so that’d be the August/September update on the spreadsheet. I know September isn’t summer but I didn’t make either of those, it’s just counting to 3 on both.
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Tis. I wasn’t saying that the Southeast Asian countries would be part of a sub tree, by the way, just that Japan would get them.
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When we will get the next sale?