I don’t know what kind of SAM sites gaijin si planning to add, but the 75-80° shaping probably won’t do anything though. Most SAMs radars now have full coverage. Those things are quite insane and would be very dangerous if added in game, almost like a no fly zone over the entire map, depending on terrain
Considering gaijin track record with AA modelling however, i don’t expect this to be an issue (Hello radar wobbling, manpads overload & lock range, lack of premium AA, SACLOS guidance, lack of sights for WW2 ones, and the list goes on and on…)
I’d rate the Rafale significantly over the Su-30SM. Even those that don’t will at the very least agree that they’re almost tied. It’s not surprising that there are more complaints about something that gets spammed more often (I brought up the example of the G.91 R/3 with unnerfed Nords at some point in this thread), but it really shouldn’t be that prevalent in discussions about actual vehicle balancing.
That’s not remotely as prevalent though.
In what way? Six missiles isn’t all that much, but I’ve rarely ran out.
I find the FM of the Su-30SM extremely limiting for GRB CAP. It can not fly continous turns without bleeding all its speed, and the acceleration is terrible. Those things (combined with solid missiles) however are what make the Typhoon, Gripen and especially Rafale so dominant at CAP. You can put constant pressure in any direction and get in and out of engagements pretty much at will with those, with the Su-30SM you simply can’t.
The missile count on Rafale is fine, but there’s just too many targets X)
I carry 8 btw, since i usually don’t take the rafale out for CAS, but pure CAP. You can see it as an extension of my ITO if you will (ITO first spawn, rafale second spawn if possible)
Sometimes, even 8 missiles aren’t enough. Some get chaffed, others multipathed, and sometimes there’s just too many Su to kill, and there’s little chance to get back to base if they are aware of your presence.
Also, note that by the time my MICA reach them, they already got a couple of KH out anyway
It should significantly reduce the time that the site has to respond to a detection, before the radar is struck in the terminal phase, and that the missile may well be dropped as a contact during the midcourse.
Considering Gaijin’s use of +/- 40 degrees for AESA systems complete hemispheric coverage can’t be achieved with a conventional 3 or 4 element array as there is no way for the emitters to be arranged for the detection zones to overlap.
Relative to their contemporaries they certainly are obvious outliers vs their contemporaries, but the difference between a 4 & 6 K/D (ground based kill, death) ratio is pretty significant, when the rest sit between about 2.2~1.1 or so.
The issue was more that the Nord’s were fast enough, and the warhead large enough that the average player could reliably dumb fire them at AA at the time and score kills consistently. Where with the Bullpups the -12C was far slower and fewer players could reliably make use of their extended range though these days they are very much overlooked in terms of SPAA counters and effectiveness for whatever reason (still waiting for the US to get an event G91/R1 though).
That was the point there are far better options for CAP at 12.0 than the A-10
The Rafale however does that while going up against the Pantsir.
The FJ-4B VMF 232 was just outright better at that job, even for people that didn’t figure out MCLOS guidance (and I’ll maintain that considering performance by people that haven’t figured out how to effectively use their weaponry is stupid). It was just rare, while the T.91 R/3 very much wasn’t.
A G.91 for the US would be funny. Shame the F-4D lost CCIP for the rockets, that filled the fighter with groundpounding capability role quite well.
My point was more that there’s relatively few people arguing about the CAP/overall performance of the A-10C in the first place. The plane is pretty much a sidenote and gets attention according to that.
As long as you can provide enough source they should accept it. However it wont be a simple task, as i had the pleasure of dealing with BN APS, where the devs said it provided ±45, and after reading the sources saying it is hemispheric, they said it cant be. Now im sitting with 5 different primary sources saying it is hemispheric, but devs are yet to look at it, and im afraid they are going to pull out ±45 again.
Well, what I have does indicate that it at minimum provides +/- 45 degrees in both azimuth and elevation (in actuality it’s -10 / +70), just that each of the four elements in the composite array are installed inclined at about 45 ~ 60 degrees or so, and so it’s not wrong, if measuring orthogonal to the array.
This reminds me of the whole “BVM being incredibly OP” situation, all the while 122s existed for even longer.
Or the fear mongering that tried to portray 27ER and it’s carriers, in the day and age of 100m MP, as some sort of a doom combination you couldn’t escape.
While all of this was happening, Gripen was flying under the radar, but at least some people like DEFYN caught that and called it something along the lines of “one of the most handheld planes ever added”.
As far as I can tell it depends on the installation inclination of the individual panels, with Vertical panels being limited to -10 / +70 , and inclined installations being fully hemispheric.
I mean? It was warranted it was by far the best SARH missile in the game hands down, its insane speed allowed soviet pilots to fire shots at targets after they had already been shot at and still score a hit before the other persons SARH could even hit you
the gripen sat in the game for 2 updates before the introduction of fox 3s something a lot of people forget is it had skyflashes which were by far the worst SARH missiles at top tier as they were similar to the AIM-7E-2
meanwhile the R-27ER was added not long after 2.23 (the gripen was added in 2.33 and fox 3s in 2.37)
The meta was to turn on periodic countermeasure release and fly straight into the enemy team around multipathing height while slinging off boresight AIM-9Ms at people. It was ridiculously dominant. Just look at this bullshit, and out of my friendgroup I’m one of the people with comparatively bad stats in the thing.
It didn’t dominate anything. The fight was pushed down into multipathing territory with the addition of the AIM-54 and stayed there until they reduced multipathing altitude. The match was usually decided before the people trying to play BVR fired their first missile.
Looks like the kh-38 is real, now all that needs to happen is for it to be put on platforms that actually uses them (su-35,34, mig-35) and be removed from su-30 and su-25sm3
A grainy photo ain’t proof. It’s evidence, but it’s certainly doesn’t confirm the weapon exists. It is incredibly likely that if the photograph is genuine then those are the same mockups we’ve seen before.
I can surely call this bs xD. I eat pantsirs for breakfest with my a10c
I can also say APKWS are absolute GOAT compared vikchrs. But then again. Gayjin left its ccip broken so its quite hard to use but extremely good against any type of spaa
Fix apkws ccip or even give it ccrp (which would be absolutely great) also sniper ATP to normally allow 6x 65Ds and i dont mind it being even 12.3
