I mean gameplay wise it’s going to play exactly like the AH-64A. It’ll be okay to grind heli pve (ignoring that you can grind helis using tanks now for a moment) while it’ll get it’s face stomped in by any 11.3+ SPAA with at least 2 braincells.
Good thing I’m going to be spading the HQ-17, so I very much welcome some more free RP.
I do want the F-2A.
I’m a heavy fighter person through and through (F-15 and Su-27 my beloved) but it would be nice having another option compared to just the F-15J(M).
taking the extra countermeasures is suicide instead of atas though. Meanwhile it won’t perform much different from the AH-64A even if it has 114K instead of 114B.
tbf I get what Shay means, whenever a valid argument has been made that isnt adding LOAL its normally shot down as because A. “LOAL” or B. “but it can see through smoke.” Mode 2 isnt LOAL and the whole smoke thing can be easily negated by adding the chaff element to nato smoke grenades. I already hear the response, but not every nation has chaff in their smoke grenades and I will simply respond with a quote
and for brimstone, it has another problem, it can’t be controlled accurately. the radar will lock anything it want in it’s fov, and you don’t know what it locked and can’t change the missile’s lock.
in mode 2 the missile is slaved to the targeting pod and requires a lock before launch, it can change targets in flight if the target were to drive behind a dead tank for example, what you are saying is the LOAL or Mode 1 where it will lock onto the first target in its FOV