Please, make the second Ammunition as an second Weapon, so the SPYDER can fire the Derby or the Python 5 any time and dont have to fire the actually loaded missle out before … for this Interaction, the SPYDER has not enough Missles.
And if the Post from the other Buddy is not here:
Camera angle: Probably the most obvious but i think we’d like the camera to be a bit further away from the vehicle so we can see where we drive
Radar: currently the radar seems to spin around rather then working constantly across all sides, The whole point of this specialized radar is avoiding blind spots at all time, Each of the radar screens is looking in a different direction to provide 360* coverage at all times
Why? With a 80km-SAM, Israel the first time has a Top-Vehicle, not a second Choice like the unrealistic Merkava’s.
So, why cant let you the real Ranges of their Missles? OP? Surley Not, in Close-Combat and against Fighter close the ground the SPYDER hast realy Problems, but it will be a realy good SAM against high and far away flying Aircraft.
Just ONE Time a good Vehicle for the IDF, please!
The 80km number came from copy-paste Air-to-air derby configuration. However I do agree that 40km range on a extended range version of DERBY shouldn’t be completetely out of the window as it still keeps an ARH seeker and is possible to defend against. As it looks like now, Python 5 barely reaches 8km, and struggles to hit a target that does light manuevers up to 5km. And the DERBY is really mediocre ARH weapon by itself…
The 80km was just copied from the A2A derby’s stats (like as found on Barak II). It was never going to have close to this range launched from the ground.
It still makes no sense why they’re opting to give it SR (20km), when ER (40km) exists. ER would be range parity with SLM, whilst still being worse in other areas.
Just dropping an overview here of the best Israeli ground-based counter against different types of airborne enemies after the patch:
Helis without LDIRCM: Namer-Spike
Helis with LDIRCM: Tank-M339 ammo (good luck lol)
Aircraft: Chaparral (as the Spyder can easily be found and will get killed without being able to defend itself. The Chaparral can at least hide and wait for a good moment to try its luck.)
Combat UAV: Spyder
Essentially the sole purpose of the Spyder will be
Shooting down UCAVs
Spotting ground enemies to reduce spawn points for CAP/CAS (albeit it’s probably more effective and fun to do that in the Namer)
