Imagine having a near 2:1 kill ratio and still a below 50% winrate.
Did you play those? did you play the BUK? How does facing the strongest cas in top tier in form of KH38s help the IRIS-T to get 2 times the BUK’s K/D?
The buk would be completely helpless vs kh38 spam by experienced players. Its already helpless vs laser guided brimstones.
The same way Russia pairs up with different nations so winrate is accurate
what has a below 50 % winrate? The IRIS-T?
Wdym . Russia spams CAS that’s how they win matches. It’s obvious irst is going to farm most of them . Inflates the kill ratio . But ultimately lose so it doesn’t make a difference ,
Brimstones??? You mean that stuff you gotta be at 5 km distance to use? That you can only sent them at one target at a time? That’s a struggle??? With 5 pantsirs watching you?
If NATO was to actually have decent CAS I could understand your point but it’s always subpar./ Suboptimal , so no . I don’t think buk struggles in any way shape or form. For what it’s supposed to be a long range anti air missile system . It does it’s job insanely well. . If I remember it’s also the fastest missle. A 0.3 seconds of the missle tube circling around doesn’t make that much of a difference , and spawns are always open it’s not like you have stuff getting in the way.
I…Jesus. Ok. If you fire the brimstones from 5 km while 5 pantsirs are watching you then yeah. Youre 1. doing it wrong and 2 youre not the best player exactly, which is ok but still. You can launch brimstones at sub 2 km from 3rd person. Sure they are not the easiest to use. but as long as theres no pantsir / 2s38 protecting the BUK it is literally completely helpless. Same vs AH64es…Hover, multipath, notch whatever if you dont play complely lobotomized you wont get shot down by the BUK. and then you send 16 ir jdams at him that he physically cant shoot down at once and reload for 10 seconds.
thats exactly the problem. There is no point to pop up 20 km from the battlefield. Theres not a lot of nato planes that do have ordinance worthy of using it that way, then mavericks are way too slow to use them that way, even with HAMMERS or KH38s you can just pop up 5 km from the ao, or behind one of the conviniently placed mountainranges around some of the maps and dive back down before any spaa missile gets anywhere close to u. Its esesentially an spaa that excells at ranges where theres 0 targets for it.
I repeat. It has a 0.8 K/D. The claws with wich apparently tons of people are struggling has 1.15…and is 0.3 BR lower, but still used at top tier. And the CLAWS is also facing the strongest CAS in top tier. Unlike the BUK.
The CLAWS has a 44% win rate, the BUK has 52.6. Now guess which one probably gets shot more often by tanks pushing its spawn?
Did you even play spaa at that BR range?