To be fair, if the seeker did look around, it’s total FOV would be about the size of a GRB map, which would cause far more trouble than the current implementation.
As of LOS, is there an inherent problem in taking let’s say hellfire’s current logic (can be fired over hills at a marked location without LOS, then guided via seeker) and swapping the seeker from laser to TV/mmw/whatever?
Yes, there is a problem, a balance one. First, you need to accept that LOAL would not be introduced only for mmwr, so be ready to MITL+LOAL+ IIR LMUR,SPIKE and etc etc
Like i sad, MITL+IR+LOAL. Will be superior to mmwr + LOAL + INS.
The US and UK adding a laser seeker to the JAGM and brinstone, the US adopting SPIKE NLOS, and most other nations not even considering mmwr should tell you enough on the limits of such systems.
So you will have all nations thay can just spawn a heli and just spam missle without even taking off from the helipad.
Then, the guys will cry. The LMUR is too OP once again.
The problem is not the implmentation. That would be easy and already done for ASW and GPS guided weapons. litterally, no new code line is needed for LOAL and MMWR.
The problem is the absolute shitstorm that will unfold on GRB if LOAL is added.
If that was true, we would get heli MITL alongside fixed wing MITL. We, however, did not, because gaijin said “no, not for you”.
And the shitshtorm I’m GRB would absolutely start in case the seeker did look around and you could fire missiles “somewhere over there” and they would find targets themselves.
But with how it currently works? What if the seeker only looked in a pretty small area? Like, in the area where radar emission has been recently spotted? You see where I am going with this?
Still the seeker would have too short range to be fired alone, so it would still need LOAL to be effective.
Your choices are simple
hellfire L with 2-3 km range
LOAL added for any weapon that support it and top tier GRB will basically became a reenactment of the 12 day war between israel and iran.
Gaijin has proven to be selective. There is no factual reason to believe absolutely every weapon having mmw will get it at once (see mitl example).
Give it to a select few. Like aargm-er. Initial home on emission - terminal home on MMW in a small area where emission was last seen. Worst case scenario - 30kg HE explosion few meters over some random t90. Win-win.
Outstanding 🫡 News!!!
The Rocks missile (https://www.rafael.co.il/system/rocks/) would also be a good option for the Blue side Community Bug Reporting System
My point is exactly that, that the agm88g is one of the few thay can recive it becouse it doesn’t need LOAL.
It won’t be getting it anyway becouse people will cry for the other mmwr seekers immediately
Could we have some of the SHORAD (frontline spaa, eg. ito) replaced with proper medium range air defense systems (Buk-M1)?
Yeah, i think a mixed approach would be the best, 3 frontline buk, 3-4 s300 on the baackline.
Same for NATO with 3 sampt (3×2 radar and 3x4 launchers) and 3-4 patriots.
So the most oppressive ones are the easier to reach and the Longer eanged SAMs like s300 and patriot have less coverage on low flyer and can focus on higher alt targets.
Buk-M9000 with missile destroying anything in 0.5km radius just by flying by.
“Passed to developers”
i don’t understand ?
I will keep my opinion until all of this is delivered, for now this Nuclera mode is absolute 0 out of 10.
devs, i have one last idea that you should probably do.
remember Grom1? you should probably re add it to the game.
but what about the nato side? maybe jdam-lr or you can come or JASSM, tho you could really add the grom back.
is the AARGM-ER going to have its MMW seeker? and is the regular AGM-88E or E2 AARGM going to be added?
Uh… The reason SAL was added to the Brimstone was because the Americans insisted upon. They didnt like the idea of British jets operating with a weapon that lacked MITL. It did also give increased capability to target things that lacked the necessary RCS profile it was designed to destroy. Things like a specific room of a building or infantry.
But full strength Brimstones would not have any issues with the context of War Thunder, it is precisely what they were originally designed to do.
And if MMW was so bad, why are weapons like Spear-3 being developed?
meh
Sadly does not matter if the buk had the range it could hit you at the other side of earth given its ignoring ground
I do not get their argument. Humans are kept in the loop for safety, not because the seeker is a bad technology. A tonne of weapons would work optimally without human integration, but have the human element integrated to confirm which lives they’re about to take. These systems could be automated but when the lives of bystanders are the cost of failure, sanity has prevailed and kept humans in chain.