Russia has put their domestic thermals in their tanks for quite a while, even in the modernized T-62’s where they have 2nd gen uncooled domestic thermals while iirc better ones go for more important tanks
i dont think sa
yeah Made in china …
This weapon needs to be removed for the sake of balance, nothing comes close to it in terms of raw performance, Kh-38ML is already good enough for CAS and Russia still has access to Kh-29T.
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a forum mod just said it’s the same and technically copied from the pars but they are the same
Kh-29T!? for god’s sake why would you even use that at all??
Russian planes have a very decent FnF capability in Kh29.
in your opinion*
No it wouldnt and if it hasnt been put on the plane and exists solely as a mockup then it shouldnt be in the game, regardless of balancing. Same applies to NATO vehicles and weaponry
Su25SM3 has not only built in optical sight but it comes also with thermals. Su30SM has the TGP that is required to fire them off and as for Su34, while it doesnt have thermal sights in the built in optics it does have a very good zoom.
God knows what poccessed them to add it in teh first place. Especially given the fact no one else had and still has anything even close to the Pantsir.
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no they dont most of their tank thermal are import and same with planes thermal
their domestic version isnt very good and they can probably get the import for the same price as domestic anyway
As I have said twice maybe thrice before in this post. Weather the missile is real or not doesn’t matter to me. Personally I don’t think Russia or any foreign exports of the KH-38MT made, sold, or mounted to an air frame. But I do believe that they could possibly make an IR guided KH-38m. But that doesn’t matter for the concerns I have. The major issue I have is the fact these missiles have the seeker performance of a TGP while being disposable munitions. It just isn’t believable especially from a nation who just recently got into making domestic thermals.
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The fact that they are using the T62 at all should be an indicator that they haven’t got the industry for this.
more than likely these are all Chinese modules we can buy from taobao than actually russian built after a thought.
ok
given how gaijin code the game im not suprise
There is a domestic version of the sosna-u with decent production afaik
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I know, i’m mostly talking about the gimbal range for the lasers in the Su-25SM3 and Su-34 that severely limit the ML’s usability on these platforms, if you had read correctly you’d have seen i did say 2 out of it’s 3 carriers limit the ML’s usability
just modernize T-72 bruh T-62 is such a waste
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T-62s are less work since they are being used as field artillery mostly. T-72s require a more indepth tear down and replacement of the armor array etc before being shipped out.
Faster to modernise a tank from storage than produce a new one.
Back to KH-38MTs
You are right that the increased cost makes them unviable as there a far more cost effective munitions to do the same job.
The tank it’s on it’s not the point, the point is that they have been producing their own thermals for a while now, even on the T-62, while the T-90M has a better domestic thermal than it, they are domestic ( 1PN96 something for T-62 )
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whats the difference between the kh38MT & ML?