We really do need Patriot atp, I don’t even know why Gaijin even added IRIS-T to beging with if they will never actually model IIR seekers properly, SLM didn’t even last two updates before being nerfed to obsolescence.
America is left with CLAWS which is just a Go-kart with AIM-120s and AIM-9X suffers against helicopters as well but it’s somewhat decent at dealing with planes close range.
Meanwhile Russia gets a S300 equivalent with a Mach 5 hypersonic missile and Patriot is still being denied. Just remove IRIS-T SLM and replace with a Patriot battery in the tech tree, IIR missiles will never be implemented, they’re impossible to balance. At least ARH can be notched and multipathed.
I think gaijin want Patriot to be in with S400 because they think the firing frequency of both is equivalent but I don’t think so according to the data I see the longest firing range of Patriot is only 160km while S400 has a firing range more than three or four times than Patriot so I hope they can put it in the game by the end of this year
cmon now we still missing some air defense for others trees like china and sweeden, patriot eill come only if the counter come like the s300 and the hq15
It doesn’t help that they merged the CLAWS (1997 ) platform (4x aim120) with the SLAMRAAM (2007-2008) platform (4x aim120 2x aim9x) but decided to give it the first generation AN/MPQ-64 radar (1995) that would already have been 10 years old (2007-2008).
Would be better with the AN/TPQ-53 for better AIM-120 datalink imo
My solution to the problem of high br spaa is to add a Ticonderoga class cruiser to each map. Players should be able to control it, and it should fire SM6 and SM3 missiles. Alternatively, the cruiser could be added to each branch of the game so players can research and use it, and spawning it would cost 70 SP
Wow, 140 km vs 70 km both can already cover map corner from map corner, but somehow one is not okay. Sure thing. Most engagements and air kills happen at 20 km tops in the game, lol. Why would Patriot even be OP anymore?
Some maps in GRB are not even 20 x 20 km, they are extremely small. BUK would have to be denied for that reason, no?
Buk is not good. I can see that you don’t play the Soviet tree. The buk radar scans extremely slow and the buk launches are the only ones that cannot fire missile straight up. The radar lock will also break the moment something like a tree branch happens to get in the way. IRIS is still the best of the new SPAAs added.
A patriot battery would be way better than buk and almost all of the new SPAA additions
Just yesterday on Sweden map. Another Mi-28 went up and killed most of the team including my Iris T. Despite I shot several missiles. They all turned away from the chopper, looked hilarious. Some were so close to hit, but turned into the sky 1 sec before impact. Despite permanent radar contact and supposed datalink?
Germany unplayable. Need already a new SAM. Iris didn’t even survived 2 patch cycles. Total garbage now. Patriot is needed.
(All this while Ru has a Mach 5 SAM with 70km range, stand alone launch vehicles, killing everything).
Lol and patriot radar doesnt even have 360° degree coverage, its just AESA radar that can see 120° degrees, only the newest patriot radar has 360° coverage, which I doubt gaijin will add
Patriot would be fine in the game because range is completely irrelevant in GRB, WT does not even have DCS sized maps, most don’t even exceed 20x20 km in ground (Vietnam is barely 18x18 km), it would be problematic in something like ARB or SIM EC but ground battles? It should get the green light, BUK is allowed with a Mach 5 missile in GRB, so why not also Patriot? At least America should get it, CLAWS is just too weak.
SLM is fine as long they give it LDRICM resistance and increase the IIR lock range back to 10 km, (it should be 20 km but whatever, balance, maps too small for that)
