I don’t know if anybody mentioned this yet, but (apart from the obvious buff that is optical tracking) locking helis will be easier only when they are quite elevated. If they are close to the ground, which most helis with sensible pilots will, they will have a reduced lock range and easier to decoy.
Though optical tracking ignores flares lol (you need to fly really low to decoy them)
I am guessing that the Strela-10M will eventually go up to 9.7 or even 10.0. It will be nice to have the Strela-1 to bridge that gap (at like 8.7 - 9.0)
But back to the topic of the passive detection system on the Strela-10, there is a prototype, which is basically a Strela-10 but with an IRST on top of the launcher (wish I wrote down the name, can’t find it now), that can be added if implementing the 9S16 is problematic.
Did you know that the optical contrast is using a different system to lock? The stat card performance is the IR, so it has nothing to do with how photo contrast work.
And I do agree you guys are off topic a little bit, and I am here just to give you a more information. But it seems you just nitpicky at this point, with that being said i’m done trying to help your misconception.
If it had it historically, I don’t see a problem with it. If the Strela-10M2 will be overpowered on a given BR, it will grow in the BR. Even so, I think that if Strela-10 will work as it did on the dev servers, BR will definitely grow.
So whether there will be an increase in BR does not depend on anything other than statistics, so it is not our job. Our job is to draw attention to the missing historical features of the given vehicles, as for example, missing passive detection of the Strela-10M2.
Do we even have the relevant radars modeled? A significant number of Strike airframes only have their radar modeled in the X-Ray view let alone those with A2G modes functional, within the BR range of the -10M2.
Sure it would be nice to have, but the other half of the mechanic(s) would be cool too.
Classic gaijin . But yeah be it through historical RWR or something along the lines of what you are proposing Strela-10M2 deserves better situational awareness .
That was reported years ago (in March of 2021 when it was first added), the report was closed down on the basis of; “no, it’s correct”.
Only after numerous follow up reports and us forcing ourselves on the devs and mods about this, did they actually correct it. We had to fight tooth and nail for 2PL to get the proper resolution. Funnily, it was only really changed after we proved it to the devs that the way they think of thermal camera generations is incorrect by… pointing out 2PL and BVM have the same camera resolution in real life, yet one is 3rd gen and the other was 2nd gen in the game.
Yet its main round is still underperforming (reported in July of 2021), nor does it have the APFSDS it actually uses in real life (DM63 - also reported 2 years ago).
On the other hand, i’m just waiting for Strela to finally be moved to 10.0 :)
