I don’t understand why Gaijin even mentioned it in the CM update if they didn’t have any expectation that calls for mmW brimstones to increase. Hopefully they’ll get the idea soon, especially since they’re completely out of reasonable excuses now - we’ve got LOAL munitions and now we’ve got munitions banned from ground battles. No brainer, really.
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We already have had that ‘logic’ for ages on all TV/IR weapons, if you lock a point on the ground and a target passes through it when the weapon gets into track range it will switch tracking to the target. I guess for the GCS you wont be able to ‘look through’ the seeker and the point of drop will just be the ground lock
They could have just used the IR locking mechanism for mmW weapons and called it wip like they did with man-in-the-loop where they just gave them Maverick seekers and called it a day (then years later added the mechanic)…
It’s LOAL, but without you controlling what the target ends up being lol
How is that same as the GCS bomb’s guidance or mmW guidance? With mmW or GCS’s LOAL IR guidance you cant pick the target manually, you dont know where your bomb/missile will go.
With mmW you have IOG (and laser slaving with Brimstone), also CCIP with GCS
Yes but if you dont use laser then its not the same anymore.
Yeah but the IOG creates a “kill box” area where the missile will lock onto whatever is in there when it gets to tracking range, the same way locking the ground in a TV/IR missile outside tracking range creates a small area where the missile locks whatever is in there when it gets to track range, but the mmW has a much wider scan area and you don’t need to have line of sight because of IOG.
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That’s how intend to use them. Guide about three using SAL towards convoy SPAA then letting mmW+IOG takeover before getting into SPAA firing distance.
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Or you can just fly low, use the map to mark the spotted convoy and launch without needing to risk popping up and lasing (you technically should be able to do with this already with things like the Kh-38MT but you cant fire them purely on GNSS or IOG for some reason)
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True. I forgot you can “dumb” fire.
Can I get hyped for some other PTRL equipped vehicle?
should have 360 countermeasures
nah this is edited f15E not actually a EX I forgot to change a lot
So, it seems someone else made a, War Thunder is dying video.
War thunder is dying video #423817
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i can imagine its because the GCS-1 uses IR which can’t track through smoke, while mmW can
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To add onto that, the GCS-1 is a gravity bomb and you can’t pre-lock a target
Also, inb4 it can’t lock tanks in-game
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