Hi everyone, I’m creating this thread to gather all bug reports concerning aircraft missing anti-radiation missiles. Feel free to post your bug reports in response to this thread and let me know which aircraft I should add.
According to BW themselves IDS variant was/is able to use HARMs so the german ASSTA1/3 should be capable of having it. SLE upgrade was initiated in 2021 and i found a picture from 2019 predating the upgrade program with an IDS with HARMs on RIAT 2019 equipped on the underbelly.
Logically the ASSTA3 Tornado should get the AGM88B (tho ingame ive only seen As or Cs so probably one of them instead).
Its probably the same reason they denied ALARM for the GR1. To keep it at 11.3 in GRB. Which like Britain, is idiotic because they ahve no 11.3 vehicles and it can easily join the RET8 at 11.7 with 2-4 AGM-88
Which makes no sense as Su24M and Su25T/39 both feature ARMs and share the exact same BR of 11.3
also germany doesnt have anything between 11.0 and 11.7, and even then its Puma VJTF at 11.0 and Flarakrad at 11.7. No MBTs as those go from 10.7 to 12.3.
SLE and GR4 even with HARMs and ALARM have to go down in BR to 12.0. The fact that russian Mig29K, 29SMT, 29M and 27MK2 all have access to ARMs at 12.3 while having a much better A2A capability with a radar and ARHs and A2G with Kh29s is just stupid beyond measure.
Well if it’s a balancing decision as @Smin1080p_WT states, on one hand understand (because of ground battles…), on the other hand ARM’s would have been a weapon of choice to counter enemy AI air defense in Sim EC.
There air defense is particularly powerful from 10.7 onwards, and ARM’s would help a lot. At the BR’s where the ARM’s are not becoming available, aircraft have other options (stand off weapons) toattack those powerful SAMs, so the ARM’s don’t really provide a significant improvement…
But as to GB, I’m sure it could be dome im a way that ARM’s can not be used below a defined BR, for example.
