Except you are wrong. USSR doesn’t have any thermal pod plane, while the SM3 does indeed have a thermal pod. It would be a good addition since it would give proper plane CAS to USSR.
Would you rather explain why you think the Su-25SM3 would be not necessary then?
Because in my view, none of the big 3 need more top tier strike planes (except maybe Germany). They need to chill on top tier for a bit.
There’s a difference between a fifth SU-25 with next to nothing new, and a third A-10 with vastly better guided weaponry and IR missiles and a missile warning system.
2 Su-25s, a MiG-27K and MiG-29SMT not enough? I get none of them have thermal TGP but considering night battles can be turned off and scouting/marking upon hit exists it’s a workable optic system
Fair.
What is the thing in the center of the fuselage? I swear I saw two missiles attached to it in a seperate image once, (so possibly 8 missiles given those 2 near the front). I’d have to scan the old forums and this one to locate it tho
So on your opinion USSR should be the only nation in the game without a thermal targeting pod in the game?
None of those have a thermal targeting pod. It makes them much worse for doing CAS since it makes scouting targets taking way too long. Or you think any of those planes are on par with F16C, Mirage 2000-5F, JH-7A, F-16D, JAS39A/C for CAS?
The real question is, when USSR started using them and on what. They took very long time to adopt them
Based Smin take
HU.5 is an Army version. Though, I do hope one day for a HAS.3 so we can see a Humphrey skin…
Either way, I hope so too!
Good point, however your point is completly invalid, since we’re using vehicles that are not even in service yet ( CR3TD ) or ones that entered in service few years ago.
last part of my message, while yes spotting is significantly trickier the Russian CAS has much more bang per ordnance, Kh-25/29 being much more potent then a maverick or even something like a PGM, and in the case of Su-25 once you’ve taken out the SPAA you have S-25s or S-13s to go and kill tanks, NATO CAS has no such thing
ground is far more advanced then air, most nations have/will receive vehicles that are still prototypes/barely in service
Im not trying to say they should not get them. Im just asking when and on what. If they are on things we are far from and if there is anything to work around
He is point is that the vehicles that had them are too advance for the game right now like the SU35 or what ever one had the thermal pod
yeah, like yes Russia does have Thermal TGP, the problem arises in the platform it’s mounted on is too advanced for the game in many cases.
We are talking about a subsonic attacker, lmao; but you are trying to sell it as a sort of F-15E XD.
the list came out shortly after the devblog, which means it was written prior to the devblog releasing
So you’re implying F16C, F16D, Mirage 2000-5F, JH-7A doesn’t have good firepower?
Yes, i don’t however how this correlates to the fact USSR doesn’t have a plane with a targeting pod.
Except they do. Zunis, are perfectly comparable to S13’s.
To be fair, Zunis can’t properly overpressure because of the HEAT warhead.
