Compared to type93 yes russian strela gets stuff almost instantly
You can say that all day but it will be irrelevant, point still stands.
I mean, not really no, its not a search radar system, its a glorified RWR bolted onto a system that has existed since the 1970s. To that same end, stuff like the 9S16 cant cue targets, its largely useless in the grand scheme of WT.
By comparison the IRST and track radar of the strela work fine, you know, the things that actually allow it to engage targets.
What kind of foolishness are you talking about? Even as a RWR it is very useful and desirable. At least you know that something has appeared in the sky.
it does have its uses, lots of planes have radars so it would actually increase its situational awareness
The strela doesnt have irst, and the radar doesnt actually allows you to engage targets as the missiles aren’t enslaved to the radar.
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The IRST that it doesn’t have works fine?
Its going to be functioning like a mid grade RWR while not having markers, the assistance it would provide would be very minimal.
Meant to say “Auto Track” which commonly gets bundled in as “IRST auto track”, the functionality is the same bar the fact the strela’s FCR does ping the targets RWR while doing the auto track.
Any kind of advantage is more than welcome on a platform that lack any kind of detection assistance, and even if they doesnt shows the marker it does shows you the direction of the radiation which is more than enough.
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if youre playing the streala, or ozelot or any other ir lobber, you really cant do anything else other than watch the sky or incoming aircraft. i would think that the contrails and sound of aircraft engines would be enough to be able to detect them, it is for me at least with the LAVAD
The lav atleast have thermals that makes it much easier to spot aircraft, and sound inst something as reliable as an rwr, as in that br planes can go super sonic or near it and you wont be able to hear them on time, i still dont get why are you so agianst to something that is inferior to search radars and search irst which are found in systems in that br.
I mean it could be added. And together with the new optical tracking thing it could be moved up in BR to a more appropriate BR, closer to 10.3 like the Israeli Chaparral.
XDD strela10m4 with thermal and 9m333 missile can be 9.7-10.0
Strela10m2 without rwr is still 9.3 material. And even with rwr still 9.3
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It’s identical to the Israeli Chaparral if it had RWR. Instead of IRCCM and shitty gen1 thermals it would have RWR and optical lock, meaning that you can actually fight helis.
So either the Strela would move up or the Israeli Chaparral should move down.
Hmm why the jewish Chaparral should move down? 6km all aspect missile, IRCCM, thermal, more missiles than strela?
Strela should get RWR at the start.
@Smin1080p
Dear Smin. Has anything moved forward on this topic? Can we expect RWR in strela in this patch?
You mean a similar range as to what the strela will likely be able to achieve with optical locking? Oh wait what are you saying? The Strela will actually be able to hit helis at that range with the new feature unlike the israeli Chaparral that can’t really lock helis outside of 2,5 km (outside of 1km against Ka-52).
And the optical that will ignore flares like IRCCM?
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You praise “optical locking” as if it were something OP.
After all, 90% of the battles you play have bad/medium weather. Rarely will you hit perfect.
Now strela may be able to lock on helicopters from more than 1 km away. I’m shooting for probably around 1.5km with optical locking.
And yes the king in lock on is Stinger where it has 2 times longer range.
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I don’t play with speed of sound on so I hear them just fine usually, though the stinger has such an artificially low G limit, it’s pointless to try and shoot one frontally as it just misses sometimes even without the target manuvering
mate, you downplaying how huge improvement of locking with photo contrast. they lock by the size of the object.
Optical Lock by Zenturion7
if this still the same and don’t really have huge changes to the live server, this is massive improvement for strela, since the limit is now the missile range, not the lock
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You have shown Tan-Sam1c where his rockets are 2 times better than Strela.
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it was a showcase for photo contrast lock and since it was a new updates they use the new and upcoming SAM, why you always poking some hole man.
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