W/ the S-75 SAM site minibase added last update, and the LD-10+SEAD gamemode in the update before that, plus all the other SAM site visual assets put in the files earlier this year,
I believe the answer given in the covert disclosures relates to the answers given abt anti-radiation near update Sky Guardians, to the effect that the devs don’t consider them useful against player-controlled surface to air missile systems, but that doesn’t prevent them being added for use against appropriate targets controlled by the computer in Air modes.
Afaik people should be able to just turn off their radars and move out of the way. But I don’t have a lot of knowledge about HARMs. Also IDK if the singular-vehicle SPAA systems we have now are powerful enough to get a reliable lock with the HARM.
I think ARM’s (certainly earlier ones) are more intended to hit large static Radar stations & SAM battery’s, than they are to hit relatively small, mobile SPAA like what we have in game.
I read a post a while ago talking about how what we have ingame, doesn’t really ‘emit’ enough to permit an ARM the kind of accuracy needed to be effective.
When we start seeing things like Patriot / S300 etc, that’s when they’re really useful.
I dont know why that would be the case, you would certainly not be able to get a lock from as long of range but would definitly be functional within a certain distance, and as long as thats over 3-5km it would work fine if you just launched it at the battlefield without locking first
Aye, everytime the topic is raised it seems quite contentious. I’m not nearly ITK enough to come to my own conclusions on it. Can only parrot the takes of others.
It’ll be very interesting to see how they handle the mechanics for such a thing though.
I doubt any radar weaker than tor or pantsir can even get picked up by major ARMs besides AGM-122. But it can be like the wargame way and say lets forget realism - but in this game it would result in huge unbalanced CAS domination.
This is why the blue and yellow country turned it’s AD off after the first night of the thing we can’t talk about because of the reasons. The Russians never finished off all the major AD assets.
The West has been flying AWACS and ELINT planes from the Baltics to the Balkans and into the Black Sea to assist in detection so the remaining sites can fire on targets with minimal risk.
This is also why not even the Serbian/Kosovo situation was as dangerous for a pilot to operate in as the current situation in the place we can’t talk about.
I don’t think the flight models of Sukhois are incorrect.
They perform better than an F-15E, and as well if not better than an F-15C.
They perform slightly worse than an F-16 which they should.
The biggest thing is Sukhois have a high max fuel load which means they have a high minimum.
But that’s more a discussion for the Sukhoi topic.
I like how the SU 27 performs so I don’t really understand where all the complaints about the FM are coming from but then again people say the panstir isn’t OP so maybe people have unrealistic expectations, I cannot say the same for the MiG 29.
It’s hard for a vehicle to be OP when it can’t even frag the thing it was designed for.
Put a Pantsir against any CAS playing remotely correctly, and the CAS will have zero deaths.
You make it a 6 hour 1v1, and the Pantsir will have over 100 deaths to the CAS’s zero.
The only way to frag CAS at top BR is to bring a fighter.