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?
dude I know people that have privately owned tanks newer than T62s.
they are better off in museums or melted down into a tank that will have a slightly better chance before getting stuck and droned
ML is laser and MT is fnf iirc
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The T-90M is running 2nd generation thermals. it only had about 300 meters better identification range than a Leopard 2A5 with 2ndgen thermals.(By Russian accounts)
So why are they not putting these MT thermals on their tanks if they can produce 3rd gen so readily?
what you said here doesnt make sense
at the same time the eurofighter has to play without fnf missles at all, why can russia play with apparantly fictional missles while eurofighters have to do with laser missles?
The russian cas could have done with the worse missle or the laser variant just as well
so just as there is a capability gap right now between fictional missles and the laser missles only i just described?
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Having an old tank is better than having none at all, not to mention it’s off-topic as it’s not related to the Kh-38MT.
oh yeah whistling diesel has a chieftain
they both have same motor and warhead right?