So the developers opinion - they don’t want to add thermal imager for su-39 and su-25t. Apparently the ussr should not be able to fly at all in half of the matches when the weather is bad.
Never played the SU39 or probably will, but I have to say, I have yet to come across a post I had more enjoyment reading.
Great job and effort :).
So in effect they recognized that the facts I described allow for adding thermal imaging to the game, but they just don’t want to
Thank you. My biggest disappointment is that when I called the Sukhoi OKB museum to come to them I was refused, saying that they only accept special guests. It’s as if they don’t care about ordinary people at all.
I asked for mail to ask a question, but even that was refused. They basically don’t care about their history.
I created a suggestion on the Ru forum, where I listed the airplanes with thermal imagers. Please vote. It’s the least I can do.
This is one of the best and most thorough posts I’ve seen on a niche topic on this forum. I would love to see this added to the outstanding and interesting Su-39. Have there been any more developments with this? Thanks for your efforts either way!
Wow that’s great research
Great post, hopefully this gets forwarded to developers
Already has. The answer was “we don’t want to add it”.
Only west can have thermals I guess, Su-39 is unusable in fog maps or low light
They gave ridiculous a ridiculous reason why it can’t be added, hopefully they still do include it on the aircraft at some point.
What was the reason lol
I’ll have to find it for you
The developer is not completely sure of the existence. Mentioning it in more than 10 sources is not enough for him.
They want a specific matrix model and other details. However, this information cannot be obtained.
but there is real photos with khod or mercury
It could be a mockup. More importantly, multiple sources say that there were thermal imaging tests in 1991. There’s no way to test a mockup
Photo Su-25TK. Aircraft number: 10 blue. Serial number: 25508101014. MAKS-1993.
Suspended is the very “strange container” which is the Mercury
And here’s a Su-25T. License plate number: 10 blue. Serial number: 25508601014. “MosAeroShow-92”.
MTPS container “Khod”, which is labeled as such in all sources.
In addition to the above: The T8M-2 on which the Mercury was suspended for testing is one of the first two Su-25Ts. It can be easily identified by the painted cockpit to make the airplane look like a regular UB. This was only on the 1st and 2nd prototype (PHOTO 1).
Further it is the same with “Mercury” in 1989 in Brovary. Records from these tests are available on the Internet. Those very hits on tanks through the Shkval and shooting down Tu-16 with “Vikhr”. (PHOTO 2)
How can this container be a thermal imager “Khod”, if in 1989 the Hod was still being developed, its first tests were in 1991? Moreover, the T8M-2 was lost in 1990 (a year before the Khod tests) during the tests? And most importantly: in 1990, the Su-25T was adopted into service together with the Mercury system. Nothing else could have been tested on it. (PHOTO 3)
