its not a scam, it just went nowhere. It happens all the time.
Zero evidence of it ever passing the mockup stage.
Zero evidence of it ever actually existing.
Zero credible evidence of it ever being mounted to an aircraft.
Also, by its own marketing brochure, it’s vasly overperforming. The brochure shows it would be suitable for hitting buildings and ships at best, most certainly not tracking a moving tank from 10+km away.
We’ve been over this again and again and again, and not once has any evidence been produced, outsise of photos of the mockup, a brochure from an air show which contains a photo which has what look like the mockups
So yeah, it fails every test for the ‘standards’ gaijin claim to hold for weapons.
tldr - it’s fake, gaijin made it up and got caught.
Yeah, any mention was removed from the russian site. I believe the english version still has it, probably because they know they’re never selling weapons to the english speaking world for a very long time so just didn’t bother to update it.
Real game performance is immense, the missile ignores multipathing VIA large proxy, it’s just as susceptible to notching as other ARH SAMs, it’s also the fastest SAM in game (behind starstreak).
Samp/T and sky sabre are far worse at killing the actual aircraft, and specialise in munition interception
Because there is zero evidence the MT version ever existed outside of a mockup.
That is a fundamental requirement for weapons to be added to the game.
They offered it as a proposal, and noone bought it. Either it would have been too expensive, it’s proposed performance wasn’t good enough or other weapons can do the job better in the real world.
It’s not, a gap is between 2 things adding something at the top is not filling a gap.
Yeah it kinda was (obviously Japan could have just gotten an F2 but gaijin was lazy or a subtree F16) and like I’ve said multiple time, every country gets bias from time to time but to match the bs Russia gets you have to pull examples from multiple tech trees.
MOCKUPS were shown. A working weapon was never shown in any form. The same mockups that have been around for ages.
Ask yourself this :
The russians aren’t shy about showing photos of weapons, or the usage of said weapons in the current war.
We’ve seen loads of stuff, but absolutely nothing about the MT. Why is this? What could the reason be for them being suddenly very shy about this weapon.
The answer is, they don’t have it. Laser version? Sure! IR version? Nope.
You clearly do not understand the process that goes on.
Companies offer proposed weapons all the time. A lot of the time, those weapons never come to fruition for various reasons. Just because something appears in a brochure, doesn’t mean it will ever exist.
It doesn’t make it a scam (you seem stragenly focused on that word), its a normal part of weapon development.