If it’s needed, I’ll respawn in a Pantsir again to help the team. Not everyone does this, and even fewer people on all teams and nations are competent SPAA players, so I think the whole thing is very team dependent.
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The winrates (and lived experience) suggest this often is not happening though.
What more often happens is 2A7/122/BVM rout the US team in the initial engagement, push to spawn, all the AA gets nuked by Su-34’s and it’s GG.
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That is absolutely the key there. I’ve rarely had anyone drag CAS over to me in an SPAA on any team or BR above WW2 era and been able to help.
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lol what? Why are you following the bait? this is dumb in ARB it’s even more dumb in GRB. Why would you play to his advantage? You retain your advantage because your presence is a threat to his existence and he cant reliably engage with you around. Not to mention that the higher he goes the easier he is for Fox 3s to eat alive so?
i wonder, if there was a team with 8 ODL, and 2 competent full squads of US, vs 8 ODL, and 2 competent full squads of GER/SWE/RU, who would win?
I’m not. If I don’t they can simply drop on top of me
If I pull up for a shot they either already have a shot on me or the enemy Pantsir can see me (depending on positioning and terrain)
the Su-34 is a joke in an air fight and the SM3 even more so
So them “dropping on you” in your top tier air superiority fighter, and beating you… is a pilot issue.
If they climb up, let them, then use a Fox 3 on them.
Because you’ve got to try and stay out of their HMS WEZ arc or you get an unflarable R73 / 27ET shoved up your exhaust.
I’m not even talking just about the Su-34, the Su-27SM and MiG-29SMT both do this well with HMD
Not NEARLY as bad its been around 10% ever since the clickbait
the R73 will go after a flicked out cigarette from your window
and neither of Russia’s only 2 competitive CAS planes gets an HMD?
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This isn’t true and you know it, within like 1.5-2km, R73 launch is a death sentence.
sounds like someone doesn’t like preflaring lol
I USE the R73 so I would know that the damn thing is flare hungry as hell, and in GRB unlike the 9M you can at least SEE that thing coming at you.
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Speaking of preflaring, you can do that if you expect a 9M and it’ll go straight for it in a headon
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I use both too, and I’d take a R73 over a 9M all day, everyday.
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in GRB? absolutely not lol, I’d take the 9M every day. No missile warning and it’s completely invisible
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Honestly in GRB I would take the 9M, but in this scenario the R-73 is extremely deadly too
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If you fly towards a Jas-39, f-16, f-15 or a myriad of other RWR pings with potential 9Ms then it’s always safe to pop a few flares until a merge or you kill them first, especially in sim
yep, exactly this