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.
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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”.
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I’ve have an easier time flaring stingers, or just turning slightly as that usually makes them miss completely.
You are correct, however, some people want it to be more or less a copy/paste of the system the Ozelot has for the sake of adding it sooner.
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.
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i mean if u shoot in rear aspect ofc they are hard to flare, but in front or side its easy, with PC almost impossible if u quickly gonna fly low
As @ueberman said earlier, it has half the FOV of aim9Ls prenerf. They are literally free kill missiles. PC mode or not.
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Strela doesnt need any more buffs, I would argue its actually undertiered.
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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
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In today’s patch (2.31.1.37) they fixed the radar.
The last thing is the addition of passive detection
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Lmao now thats a good joke. You can’t flare Strelas. Once they shoot you’re dead. Game over. Its not called The “AA that never misses” for no reason.
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Make it foldable as well.
Yeap youre full of it. Def the type to sit in the back of the map getting air kills with 0 effort
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.
Bad weather doesn’t even matter either, they’ve shot me down through the thickest clouds plenty of times.
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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.
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Where was he, behind u as you flew away? They can detect IR from the rear too ya know lol
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.
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I’ve done some testing myself. Clouds hardly prevent its locking ability. It can lock you if you while you’re in the middle of a cloud, because for some reason the heat from the plane contributes to an ability to lock while you’re in that mode. Its very strange.
Because it is big, horrible mobile performance, no early detection system, no weapon other than the 7mm, no thermal vision and the missiles are horrible against flares.
I mean, because it doesn’t have what other vehicles have at 9.7, except what you said, 20g, it’s the only thing.