Qn506

this vehicle suffers from many issues for instance the fire and forget atgm fails to launch if there’s basically anything barely blocking the target (for example leaves, a tree, target is partially shown in between a hill or between a building) and the vehicle will refuse to fire the missile despite having the target locked in the computer, other problem is in the penetration of the missile itself, most of the times this missile will only show a “hit” despite striking a very solid area that would be otherwise a guaranteed kill for other tank shells with much less penetration, even through the specs says 900mm of pen for it to show just a hit most of the times is very odd, the smaller missiles also seem to lack penetration and sometimes it takes the entire stack for a single tank kill, they are supposed to be more effective than the 30mm darts but it seems like its the opposite

the last problem and the one that makes it suffer the most is the classification of it’s role and the ammo box mechanic, it’s classified as a light tank but uses the chasis of a medium tank while most of it’s arsenal is focused on antitank role hence the darts and both of it’s atgm for which should be a specialized vehicle with anti-tank missile carrier or tank destroyer classification, this would greatly help for those very common moments in which you’re hit in the turret and the entire ammunition explodes leaving you in the middle of nowhere with an unarmed and damaged vehicle, that only if you manage to survive from whoever was shooting at your position

in the practice its not even half as good anti-ground as its advertised due to these things however it seems to be really good against helicopters but unfortunately its not able to compete with any AA missile from it’s battle rating since most AA vehicles will outperform this thing in a speed race of missile

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