The Kh-38MT may not actually exist

Which does make the lack of a premium/SQV/Event KH-38MT slinger rather surprising.

a bit too on the nose I assume

kh38mt core

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It was a joke, I’m sorry, was just feeling devious that evening.

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Honestly, I feel like when they eventually introduce new advanced SAMs they will hope people’s interest in this thread will gradually wane.

Not having to explain why Russia got such a OP weapon with no evidence to back it up…

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I swear to god if I hear this again, in mode 2 you designate the target it flies there like point fire on IR and TV AGMs and then once at a certain range it would lock on with its seeker. Unless gaijin model it really god damn wrong in mod 2 it should team kill as about as often as IIR missiles, its not like we are volley firing off 10 missiles with out locks and just waiting to see what happens

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5000 messages…

Still nothing to actually counter OPs claims.

Gaijin plz address this

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I think the OP is right, just look at this

Kh-38MT in game:

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Kh-38ML in game:

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Kh-29TE in game

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You can clearly see that the Kh-38MT and ML currently in game share almost the same aperture on the seeker, but an actual IR seeker has a much bigger aperture (like the Kh-29) because an IR seeker so tiny woudn’t work that well at +20Km of distance, how could it catch an infrared radiation trace when it has a seeker so tiny that would limit the amount of radiation absorbed?
It’s like opening your eye, if you close your eyelids, you will only see the center, while the outline will be darker and blurry, with a really tiny FoV. If you open your eyelids to the maximum you will have the brightest and uniform possible vision and have the maximum FoV. That’s the same

They just released a video on the main page outlining the KH-38MT too lol. Check out the Video Digest.

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kh-29 isnt IR it is TV guided and the actual seeker element isnt that big

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by cooling the seeker with liquid nitrogen
you dont need a huge seeker for it to be IR guided look at the AGMs or the LMUR for example:

LMUR is a russian IR AGM they are using on helicopters iirc
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the KH-38MT is modeled after the one that was shown at th MAKS expo in 2017

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and the kh-38ml is modeled after this one:
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aren’t fins on the ML in game much larger?

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Well, here’s your clue to why whatever happens - happens.

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This was already disproven

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https://x.com/GaijinEnt/status/1916577746375070147

Also, this has nothing to do with the topic

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Btw I’ve seen Smin answering in another topic. I wonder if he would come visit us by any chance.

He’s already been pinged at least 5 times at some point during this, and has yet to make an appearance, so probably not :/

The ML seen in-game is modelled after the ones seen in use in Ukraine.

He just doesnt have anything to say, since his statements are taken as official gaijin responses, and Gaijin clearly just wants the topic to die.

Theres certainly a number of jabs one could take at this statement, but as you said these would be offtopic.

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