While this is very much off topic we know what IRST yak-141 would have had and it has its mounting spot on the airframe, it would have been on the preproduction models (which our yak is supposed to be) but wasn’t fitted on most of the test airframes.
And SDBs negate pantsir via scope choking yet you dont see me gurning for their removal.
You have to ask yourself with these weapons “Do they require a lock? Can the vehicle itself supply that lock?”
It’s why EJ Kai lost the GPS guided bomb, cause EJ Kai can’t program GPS coordinates for munitions.
EJ Kai also lacks a targeting pod to self-lase so it can’t use laser guided munitions in War Thunder.
War Thunder will likely always be a self-locking game due to how trolls could impact buddy-lasing.
Then you have to ask “Are these primarily anti-ship weapons?” cause if they are they’re on the backburner of all anti-ship weapons waiting to be added to the game.
It’s primarily why I doubt F-1 can actually self-fire any of those three weapons and instead needs a buddy, but I could be missing something.
ASM-2 is anti-ship so backburner along with Exocet, and whatever else.
GSM-1 has to be proven [not my belief, this is a word for seeking information not making claims] that doesn’t need buddy system when the firing aircraft potentially [not guaranteed] lacks the ability to lock, and could very well be difficult to research [which includes verifying the research we players do] so give that one time.
GCS-1 requires literally no information from the host plane, it relies entirely on self search. And while the ASM-2B can use GPS for initial guidence, the regular ASM-2 has no GPS backup, and works solely through IR tracking.
As both of these are IR guided, i don’t know where your idea they need buddy lasing came from.
Now, yes, they are primarily anti-shipping weapons, but given the size of the target they were tested against is known, as is roughly it’s emission spectrum, we do know it’s atleast theoretically possible for them to lock ground targets. Especially since they’re explicitly stated to have background clutter rejection.
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I never said they were laser, I said the scenarios that could exist in the research phase.
And with the discoveries here that Kh-38MT and IR Hammer is over-performing compared to their real-life claimed locking methods [irrelevant of Kh-38MT being real or not], it appears Gaijin needs to code in a self-search function for IR missiles.
I mean, saying they need a buddy plane basically implies lasing, seeing as they aren’t GPS guided aside from the ASM-2B means no datalink buddy system would work.
Because I’m not willing to get banned for it.
Also lol irony that @Morvran liked your post. The most biased Brit I’ve met
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Most people would hate this, as a suggested change, at least those of us whom play Russia, as for years it has been USA / German dominance in all except helis.
Best naval? USA followed by Germany.
Best tanks? Germany followed by USA.
Best planes is now RU followed by USA closely tied with Germany.
People say Russia has the best spaa, I say it’s Sweden. Range doesn’t matter if your aam craps out after 10 secs since it’s 35g overload maxes out.
Doubt. If you found it so easily you should have no reason to expect it to hold onto any sort of restriction.
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Say what you like pal. TOS is literally against it
I mean, if we wanna just claim stuff that we “cant” provide proof for, I “have” an internal KTRV document that says the Kh-38MT is a fabricated missile simply for increasing russian winrates in WT /s.
If you cant back up your claim, its worthless. Dont waste our time.
Next ur gonna tell me your uncle works at microsoft 🙄
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Im planning on claiming I have a sekrit document that says Brimstones 1s have an IIR seeker and 200km range. :P
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How convenient
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Best planes is now RU followed by USA closely tied with Germany.
Germany? The germany with the worst eurofighter variant and a joke of an F-4? You’re sure we’re playing the same game, yeah?
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Eh… PIRATE is so badly modeled its hardly an advantage at the moment, technically its the weakest but just barely
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I wonder why there hasn’t been a sighting of the Kh-38MT IRL yet… I wonder why it’s not compatible with the newer fighters that are coming out… It’s almost like after 900 messages, people still can’t find proof it exists because it doesn’t.
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You don’t need FCS to fire a proximity fused shell?
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i mean a quick google doesnt mention KH-38MT anywhere other than reddit and war thunder
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