What’s IOC?
18x Spear-3s sure
Initial Operating Capability
Brimstone 2s have been in service since 2015 and have seen operational deployment as part of OP Shader
I wasn’t referring to the Brimstone
Again, there is no reason to assume MMW brimstones would come without GBU-53s, which also works against convoys.
Or GBU-39Bs (L-SDB)which should be in the game anyway at this point, and also work against convoys
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Then whats the IOC of the Spear-3 got to do with anything?
I hadnt heard it got delayed, but its being actually tested. It was test fired 6 months ago (which is the bare minimum for Gaijin for non-soviet weapons)
GBU-53s sound like a perfect couter-part with the Spear-3 not the Brimstone.
GBU-39s with SAL+GPS?
Would be just as in-effective as Brimstone 1s are currently
I expect many MMW weapons to come at the same time alongside a guidance overhaul and LOAL to the game.
Either at BR 13.3 and/or with advanced smoke countermeasures as well.
Out of curiosity how much time have you spent playing top tier ground and CAS? To suggest high spawn-points being a balancing factor to MMW air to ground weaponry makes me feel like you may be somewhat inexperienced or ignorant of how this would function as opposed to what we currently have.
You could spawn, fire these off, and they would locate and track ground vehicles on their own while traveling to the AO while also being impervious to anything except physical cover (i.e you can’t even smoke dodge them). There is nothing fun about this as it removes all burden of skill from the CAS pilot, they don’t even need to lock and fire like we do with mavs or kh’s, and it’s especially unfun for the ground players on the other end of it.
No amount of spawn points would justify spawning something that would allow you to potentially kill all 16 enemy players by spamming a button, it would be an even worse mechanic than the nuke.
Edit: Never mind I see you compared MMW brimstones to gps guided bombs and I understand I’ve wasted my time writing this.
I gave up the moment they added the IRIS-T SLM. Fighting Pantsirs was a chore. Fighting something that made the Pantsir look weak seemed like a waste of time.
Though without a single top tier MBT either. I really couldnt be bothered on either the CAS or ground front
You are assuming they would be added in ONLY their LOAL Form. All MMW weapons also have LOBL modes of operation and therefore would actually be no different. If anything the LOBL mode on the Brimstone would still be weaker than the KH-38MT as you would still have to paint the target with a laser until it was about 5-9km out.
There is smoke with Chaff in it that blocks MMW.
Again… Why do people assume the ONLY option is LOAL. They have a perfectly well documented LOBL mode of operation. Let alone just straight up giving them the same seeker as a placeholder.
Again… Hu?
IN AIR REALISTIC AND SIMULATOR BATTLES!
You know that Aircraft can be used in gamemodes besides GRB?
Where 95% of ground targets are completely immobile and therefore GPS Guided weapons if anything perform better than FnF AGMs as they can be used from further away / more reliably (getting PGMs to lock is absolute chore that Ive stopped doing again now the event is over, the extra little score is just straight up not worth the hassle)
Again…
Why does this prevent adding —>SAL <— BRIMSTONE 2s
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Not for killing convoys, which is what you are claiming you want MMW brimstones for.
Arent they just GBU-39s with SAL?
Yes. And Laser munitions are already more than capable of dealing with convoys.
So again… They would have the identical problem that Brimstones have. 1 target per pass.
Meaning by the time you’ve taken out a target, turned around, taken out another, etc etc. every single person on the other team has seen the killfeed and likely guessed exactly where you are and have started hunting you.
Precisely why I consider them a waste of time for the GR4. Much better to fire 3x PGM-2000s and then run away and RTB and then repeat 5 or 6 times than taking a single Brimstone
For the F-15E, it would be the exact same, except you’d fire off 6x AGM-65s instead.
Ok, so add IR GBU-53 to fix this?
Sure, alongside Spear-3s with a placeholder MMW Seeker
Glide bomb vs cruise missile, spear 3 would have the same problem being GPS+laser anyways
Game limiations like render ranges would mitigate the advantages entirely.
Though 28x Glide bombs vs 8-10x GBUs is apparently perfectly balanced. So?
Can’t those GBU be the glide variants?