That’s probably just the different lighting conditions and the dull seeker optic window being polished to look nicer when the missile is in front of potential buyers. Both the confirmed mockup and the potentially mounted mockup have dark tinted windows over their seeker.
It may be just that the sun makes the highlight sharper, or the makers of the mockup decided to snap a photo of their current missile projects before finishing up on the KH-38MTE with a bit of polishing for the seeker window. Either way it’s not particularly difficult to change a dark tinted matte window into a dark tinted polished window.
Heck, with enough effort you can polish a ball of mud to reflect light like a brown mirror.
I do not mean it in a rude way, but you can see a seeker there? Among the pixels all I can see is a black surface that reflects sunlight and is lighted up by the scan.
Probably a buff to range if anything, Kh-38 claims a max stand off distance of 70km. With the new AA coming Gaijin will do anything to give Russia the competitive edge.
It does matter in the context of the new AAs, if the leaks are true and SLM and other long range systems are coming then it’s very likely that the track range of IR guided weapons will be increased.
I’m guessing the changes to Maverick and Kh-29 and 38 will be a tweak to their seeker lock range. It’s extremely unlikely that they’ll remove the Kh-38MT or nerf its seeker resolution and zoom.
I know point locks can do the job just fine if the new AAs are static but I can’t think of any other reason.
Absolutely delusional take, I agree. Pantsir 18km sphere of death and Kh-38 carriers enjoying the protection of Pantsir not being an advantage is such a horrid take.
No, it doesn’t. Launch range is not tracking range, and the tracking range of Kh-38MT [which is currently identical to AGM-65D/G] can only get reduced.
@coffee_can-psn
Of course you have a trash take claiming that me saying CAS [which includes Kh-38MT] is OP is dishonest.
Keep downplaying Kh-38MT and defending Pantsir, all you do is prove everyone correct.
Pantsir is bad against current CAS.
Even the changes to Hammer and Kh-38MT seekers would make Pantsir and by extension other SPAA actually usable against those platforms as AGM-64D/G would retain their tracking ranges.
I’m the one defending the kh38mt? dude you’re the one who voted on keeping it not me don’t lose the plot. And you can argue the pantsir is bad sure against cas(it isn’t)I’ll just hit you with the fact it’s still the current best sam in the game.
I voted on find out more information one way or the other as there’s no third option the poll forces me to pick no.
I have zero skin on Kh-38MT being in-game or not as stated countless times.
I primarily use it in air sim to deal with convoys, that’s it. A thing that can be done using other weapons.
