with an ir missile flying low also work as you need a direct view to lock on and the missile wont be able to hit you if youre too close… aside the point is to sneak on them, not to mention that it heavily reduce the lock on all aspects of the strela. also while flying near the ground you can make it to crash into it
you can, it is one of the easiest manpads to flare.
its nowhere close to a search radar just a rwr, it is by all means worst than a search radar or search irst
Already the addition of this RWR in the strela-10 would be very good. Finally awareness on the battlefield that something has appeared in the sky instead of tryharding and scanning the sky with your eyes
My friend’s strela beat me to killing a fully flaring MiG-29 or F-16 (one of these 2) in my Israeli Chap, which is supposed to have a hard to flare missile. We were both close to eachother and I even fired earlier.
I mean does nobody understand what an advantage it is to have such a small seeker FOV? I remember when people complained about the old AIM-9L not being able/hard to flare because its FOV was so small, the Strelas FOV is even less then half that and people think its “easy to flare”.
My experience has been the exact opposite. Same with the people I play with. I’ve seen them ignore large caliber flares similar to how the Aim9L used to back in the day before it was nerfed into the ground.
No the RWR is far more complex than just giving the general direction , it can track the target and skew the turret to the target . Here you will find more details about my report based on primary documentation ( manual ) . The report has been accepted since February , Devs are aware of this but no fix has been brought thus far : 9K35M2 Strela-10M2 missing means of detection . - Already Reported & Resolved - War Thunder - Official Forum
You can, if you are lucky with bad weather, when it is not possible to use photocontrast. Or when you fly really low to the ground. In the first case, however, you have to be very lucky, and in the second case, your combat effectiveness is also reduced to practically zero when flying so low.
Can “doubt” all you want. It happens all the time and theres evidence lmao, its not even up for debate, you’re just in denial which is pretty weird but makes sense since you main Russia, idk why you people hide behind broken russian vehicles gaslighting people so your precious coded bias remains.
The optical guidance does not function off of IR, it functions off of cross section. The missile should have lost guidance the moment it entered the cloud due to this, same case with low altitude shots.
As of late however the strela has been able to hit targets in clouds and at extremely low attitude while superior rosette seekers like the FIM-92 have been unable to lock targets even out to .3 miles.
Gaijin is having a great time toying with seekers again.