Mi-24s don’t get DIRCM. They get regular IRCM, which is basically useless against every IR missile (even non-IRCCM) (like you said).
The only helicopter with DIRCM is the KA-52, which does work against non-IRCCM and IRCCM missiles from jets.
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Yeah, somehow I doubt the KA-52’s DIRCM works. I’ve been hit with plenty of Fim-92s, Strelas, AIM-9s, and so on.
Strelas sure – they have optical guidance.
The rest, no. The FIM-92s can kill you if it was indirectly shot, though.
I have been downed by LAV-AD’s many times in my KA-52 partially my fault for being too close, but Russian helis, despite the HRSS upgrade, run wayyyy too hot in game.
Ka52 do work against chaparral and antelope i thnk
I could probably count on my fingers the amount of times I got killed by stingers and ir missiles (9ms) in general. Hell, I probably got killed more by brimstones than it.
Granted, I touched the ka52 probably like 10 times ever since the new spaa came out but before that, I used it a ton and it was pretty solid at defending against IR missiles.
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I’ve never had a good time in any heli, let alone Russian ones.
I always get killed by something they should be immune to like an Fim-92K.
But also planes get me here and there because they love to camp the helipads unhindered which is bs
Skill issue then. I’ve already used the German Mi-24P (which Russia also has) and you can easily get more than 5 kills per match with that thing, not to mention the Mi-28NM, which is currently the most broken because of the LMURs.
Irony because the Swede mi-28A is actually the one of the coldest helis.
I’ve seen Fim-92Ks fly around it, and miss it last sec with one flare pop.
Also, the Chinese heli is way more broken than the Mi-28nm
Are you sure about that?
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Now, if you were to ask
@Ghost_of_TelAviv
Or the others of us who were testing the Ldircm, you would know the z-10me was never touched, while the ah-64e had minor hits, and the mi-28nm would get hit semi consistently.
CM-502KGs are ass and are only useful against light tanks and SPAA.
The BA-11s are much better.
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From my experience playing the Z-10ME and AH-64E in both SRB and GRB, they have similar effectiveness at stopping IRIST missiles.
Sometimes the missiles just go through.
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As you can see on my video even BA-11 is less successful than LMUR due to its trajectory profile.
The only advantage BA-11 has over LMUR is the seeker warm-up time.
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From what I can remember the BA-11s are faster than LMURs too.
You can also induce the short warm-up time of the BA-11s onto the CM-502KGs.
If you use it in tandem with flares it works to a degree. I’ve shot hundreds of Stingers at Ka-52s and the majority of the time the combo of DIRCM and flares make the missile go to space or the ground. Beyond that if you stay more than 2.5 miles away from Stingers they can’t really lock you. I’ve used the hydra trick to increase the range but it doesn’t work well enough to be reliable. Most of my stinger kills on DIRCM helis is the result of them getting way too close or exposing side/rear aspect.
Well yeah, I let the MAW do its job.
I don’t typically try to go closer than 4 miles, but stingers can be lock those Soviet helis further away sometimes. I don’t have any reasonable explanation for this, but I’ve locked and downed an Mi-24 at 3.89 mile range before. (Granted he was flying In, so whatever distance he could’ve achieved from launch to hit has to be considered)
I’ve gotten a couple 4 mile kills with stingers, but that was using the hydra trick to get them that far. I’ve never had a stinger lock beyond 3 miles by itself. On winter maps, I’ve had helicopters like the British Lynx get less than a mile away from me and I wasn’t able to lock them even side on.
Ngl I think the lynx runs way too cold, but again that’s because the heat values helis give off are all over the place in WT.
I’ve had a lynx on a desert map be less than 2 miles away and couldn’t lock, so I just fired the chain gun till he was dust
Oh look it intercepted missiles and killed the chopper but wait … it wasted half it’s ammo and now it will die because someone lauched multiple kh-38 or there is another mi28 ;) you lose back to the hangar
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