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)
I’ve tried everything. Playable only derby. There’s no point in taking Python 5. They do not intercept neither missiles nor airplanes
Radar is very funny(no). Gaijin has made us all realize that there can be nothing better than the USSR
no, they are focusing on the really important stuff right now, like adding a rangefinder modification to the researchable modules of the Spyder.
there were no changes to the missiles other than modifications to the statcard of the derby and the derby’s max lock angle before launch