Pretty sure it got new missiles with BR change
For the US one yes, that’s the one i mentioned lol. The israeli one has no change
The US one got new missiles. The Israeli already had MIM-72G.
Still not good enough for it’s BR though imo. In particular if the new japanese SAM stays lower than it.
The japanese one is not gonna stay low for long, at least not with how it performs currently.
Its a missile change which is more imoactful than this report.
I’m talking about the Israeli one. Which is a whole BR higher than the Strela and hasn’t had a missile change since it was introduced.
The US one was the one that got a missile change.
I would argue that the Strela is already going to be better than the Israeli Chaparral with the new optical thing while still being a BR lower.
Wow, only after a single year? Thats really fast considering the pbj is only just now getting it’s AP naval bombs and is still missing it’s torpedo when the historical report was passed almost 7 years ago now
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Missing ordnance load outs are treated as suggestions. Also the only reason we’re getting AP bombs, is that they finally decided to rework them.
And passive detection is an integral part of the Strela system.
So it should have been added at the beginning of the introduction of this vehicle into the game, but of course they didn’t do it. Probably ran out of money for programmers…
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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.