Looks great! Until you realise it’s made of cardboard. Plus it’s about 25% too small to actually carry a pilot (unless the IRAF start employing toddlers as pilots). Edit out the surroundings and put it in a brochure - surely it meets the exact same reqs as Gaijin used for KH-38.
Russian has a long and storied history of wheeling out very good looking stuff - only for it to a) not exist as a functioning weapon or b) it not working when the other side shoot back.
No, it just has to be technically compatible. and because su30sm is a derivative of 30mki, it falls under technicality rules of being able of being added to it.
(IRL su-30sm doesn’t have kh38, it’s not integrated and I agree that it shouldnt have it, but on a technical compatibility, its fair game. Gaijin picks and chooses when to adhere to this rule, but in this case it’s technically compatible)
The only fixed wing planes that actually has kh-38 irl are su-35 and su-34 and mig 29
that’'s what i said earlier, giajin picks and chooses when to adhere to this rule. theyre inconsistent as hell on it.
IMO they just wanted to just give kh38 as many carriers as possible
Yeah weird as fuck tho that only Russia gets it in a positive way. Go ask for more hosbo on the tornado or quad racks on the golden eagle if you think otherwise
I posted mockups, you said they don’t look like the things in your photo. That could have been taken one of two ways - 1) The thing in your photo isn’t a mockup or 2) The mockup in your photo doesn’t look like the mockups I posted.
I took it as 1, perhaps you meant 2 but who knows.
To be clear -
Noone is taking a real missile to a trade show, any photo purporting to show a kh-38mt at a trade show is most certainly a mockup. And no, noone is taking a very valuable seeker head and putting it onto a mockup missile body and then taking that to a trade show.
Seekers can of course be removed from weapons, its required for maintenance etc.
Gaijin coming out and saying: “yeah russia gets preferential treatment and fake stuff, because otherwise they wouldnt be competitive” would be so funny
If they are going to delude people into thinking modern russian Naval or Air assets are better than the Chinese or NATO equivalents then we’re in for a rough ride
Well theres only so much bs that they can get away with. Rn it works but every modern addition at this point will either make the bias more obvious or create a gap that the ussr tree cant close
Buk is good, but far from the best. His size on crappy maps hinders him, the radar is strange, he struggles with multipath even with plenty of explosives, and helicopters bully him.
