Remove IRIS-T from Warthunder or nerf it to the ground

Right now, it’s nearly impossible to get anything into the air. It doesn’t matter if it’s a helicopter, a jet, a scout drone, or even a stealth aircraft like the RAH-66. Once you lift off, you’re basically dead. The moment you’re pinged even once by an IRIS-T radar, you’re already bracing for a swarm of invisible rockets that don’t show up on your RWR. You’re stuck spamming flares, praying that somehow, after dropping off radar, the missiles will just lose you. But no, they don’t.

You could be 40 kilometers away from the fight, off radar, flaring like crazy, and these missiles still hit like they’ve got a personal grudge. And it’s not just one, it’s every single one of them, no matter what you do.

Meanwhile, the IRIS-T player is just sitting there like a potato in a gaming chair that’s doing more work than they are, covered in Cheeto dust, drooling on their keyboard, and slamming the launch button the moment anything flickers on radar. No aiming, no tracking, no effort, just blind spam. Where’s the skill in that? There is none. It’s not gameplay, it’s a free kill button for players who can’t handle an actual fight.

IRIS-T players aren’t good. They’re not smart. They’re just lucky enough to sit behind an overpowered mechanic and pretend they’re doing something impressive.

Just spawn a tank

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The irist slm take the same amount of skill like any CAS aircraft in war thunder it’s just a aim, fire and wait until u get the kill. Cas players get hard spawn camped like they did it to tanks in the past 15 years and already starting to cry about it

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Meanwhile, the kh38mt player is just sitting there like a potato in a gaming chair that’s doing more work than they are, covered in Cheeto dust, drooling on their keyboard, and slamming the launch button the moment anything flickers on their thermals. No aiming, no tracking, no effort, just blind spam. Where’s the skill in that? There is none. It’s not gameplay, it’s a free kill button for players who can’t handle an actual fight.

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Impossible no, just have to do CAS more strategically now vs just flying up, straight or tunnel visioning and spamming A2G missiles.

Spoiler

https://youtu.be/74GOtqvnzVw?si=EYOIjzZVJqyMcg-Q
https://youtu.be/WDwpnJVT_WY?si=VnKKSlQVzSkRpLwd

There are more videos out there and also with helis vs these new SAMs too.

An example of how many CAS players fly and complain about OP SPAA shown by Ron in this thread. Just do don’t fly like this and you will be fine.

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