I suppose we’ll see it on all future fighters too
Seems I was on point
Brother did you really put in a bug report for the T220…
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Not to look at a gift horse in its mouth but I wonder, what was the reasoning for devs to give the Su-30SM the T220 targeting pod and not something more grounded with more evidence like Damocles or SASPAN-E?
Was it because it could “potentially” be mounted with little modification? (Kinda like how certain aircraft ingame have weapons or hardware it never had in service but can potentially utilize) Or was it just an arbritrary decision by the devs?
If it’s there to stay though, I’m not complaining because I enjoy CAS a lot, but I’m curious as to what led to that decision.
They locked the report so it doesn’t even matter.
My suspicion is that technical possibility is the answer to why it received it.
I’m hoping the MiG-29SMT also gets it, BVV_d said they are considering it.
I more so did it to see the reasoning to why T/220 was chosen instead of something else, saying they provide evidence to counter my bug report.
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Current SU-30SM has a SU-35 inside it. KH-38, GROM, T-220, R-77 in 2nd/11th hardpoint, all should be in SU-35 not SU-30SM
That’s basically what the Su-30SM2 is, which is what gaijin should honestly change it to.
that would mean we’d have Irbis and possibly access to R-37M
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They break their own rules
Not entirely, I’m sure its a case of “its technically possible” which they’ve been using for a few years now.
Keep in mind the Su-30SM is a upgraded variant of the Su-30MKI.
usually they need some proof, and in SU-30SM I can’t find any.
If I remember correctly, Su-30MKI has it’s own system to fit the foreign weapons in India.
and to be honest, “its technically possible” fits every modern plane with degital highway system. you can just upgrade your system, install some drive then you are able to use anything you want, as long as the loadout can be carried.
But I don’t think gaijin will admit this now
probably something to do with consultants
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BVVD said that since export variants of Su-30 have TGPs like MKM - Damocles, MKI - Litening, they decided they should give the Russian version an optical pod aswell and they went with T/220 since they know that it was used on other jets like MiG-29M, MiG-35 and Su-35S.
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I think it’d be best if they kept Su-30SM2 for when they drop F/A-18E imo.
Personally would have went with sapsan but imma take it.
What aircraft is this on?
Su-30SM
SAPSAN is not a copy of DAMOCLES, they are two separate projects.
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Info on the sapsan is much harder to find