SPYDER AIO: The Vigilant Arthropod

This is a really depressing implementation of one of the best anti-air systems out there. Your constant handicapping of Israeli hardware is getting really old.

Please fix it.
Please fix the Merkava armor.
Please give Israeli aircraft SPICE armaments.

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Im just saying they arent rly adding this new spaas to the game cuz they are completle diffrent from what they are irl
Gaijin makes them hella bad

Merkava mk4m and namer triskhion aps not working for 3 months i did a report in site but busy gaijin admins did not respond

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theres a 2 yrs bug report on it already (i think?)

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Everything is over. The missile performance of all SPAA in the new version is even worse than that of the HQ17. The next version will still be dominated by Russia’s Pantsir and KH-38 (not to mention that the KH-38 has been strengthened), as well as the new infrared jammer of the Mi-28NM. The Russian Federation is truly great.

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The current state of this system shows the true bias, it’s funny you refuse to nerf Russian equipment even when they are proven to not work in battle and you strait up nerf other nations of their actual capabilities. Pound for pound Israel would steamroll Russia irl lol

So lemme get this straight. The radar doesn’t work like it’s supposed to, the Derby doesn’t get its extra booster, we don’t even get the Python 5 and are instead given the Python 4 right down to the model a missile this system has never used which itself was nerfed heavily boh missiles have a 2km deadzone where they simply wont hit a target. While the Pantsir gets 2 buffs and the KH38MT gets a massive buff. Remind me again what the whole point of the update was if they were just gonna make Russian CAS even more powerful and gimp most of the NATO SPAAs they added. The only one in a somewhat comfortable state is the SLM. SLAMRAAM is gimped pretty hard and this is borderline useless. Cool and I guess this means that I won’t be seeing any sort of similar munitons to the FakeH38MT deluxe right? No popeye or SPICE? No Python 4 for my planes? No other Israeli PGMs just get hand me down American stuff that hardly works. Thanks for nothing Gaijin.

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Yea i think u got it right
Just another israeli vehicle that gaijin refuses to make right

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And thats only since the second dev server. First dev server version was essentialy glorified stinger.

Lets just hope Spyder gets fixed later this devblog or on live release, otherwise israel is still without top tier AA

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Not much that can be fixed about it besides giving it Derby-ER, but according to Smin it would be stuck with Derby-SR as far as they knew.

So the Spyder is likely doa when it comes to being 12.0.

I was under impression that the Spyders Derby missiles inherited (ie. were copypasted) the weird loft from the air launched version which is what makes them bad in ground launched version?

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The Derby also just has a low top speed and loses it’s speed quickly like the Slamraam and previously like the SLM. The Derby already drops below mach one somewhere between 7.5-10km traveled.

Beyond 10km it’s just laughably easy to evade the Spyder’s Derby, I just don’t know in what way they could change that without giving it Derby-ER. However if there are other ways I’m more than happy for Gaijin to apply them.

If Israel wasn’t stuck with the Chaparral I would have called the Sypder a waste of time.

Pardon me but

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I wasnt expecting that when gaijin said new top tier AA for israel, they meant its on par with current platforms, not the ones being added.

Thats just sad.

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Python on SPYDER is much better now, one of the best IR missile IMHO.
If they make it a bit better (Data-link and PID with navigation) i’ll be happy

Did they make this change after dev went down? I’m not saying you are wrong I just haven’t heard about it. You are giving me hope here man

Buff the python 5 ofc
It has less range then it should

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No its not it has berly 6-8km effective range no dl and bad irccm
And it also pulls less then it should

Would still not help against the average Kh38/Hammer slinging aircraft though.

That is the main problem that Israel won’t be able to counter.

Yep there is much to do Gaijin.
But now it’s better then past DEV Python 5.

If it will had 12-15km effective range it could deal with it
Oh and also fix it that it could intercept them