Dang, I was told AGM-114s were bad.
Yet here’s a record of someone in a particularly good match.
Vikhrs and AGM-114s might be worse than F&F missiles for survivability against top SPAA, but that doesn’t mean they’re unusable when the match is just right.
Why are some of them blank?
Thats fake, Hellfires are useless as i hear here every day.
They are good only because teapache has starstreak that cover agm-114 weaknesses. Any other non f&f apache are trash. Although in this patch, teapache has become trash too.
starstreak
2 Likes
I wonder what other fake missile they’ll add to the ka52m
1 Like
I don’t think they have IIR modeled in the game. They just give the missiles a tiny FOV and tracking suspension IRCCM instead of modeling the IIR. I’m not an expert, but I believe IIR works by creating a sort of image with heat signatures, so the missile can tell if a certain heat signature is a flare, a plane, or a laser being shot at it from a DIRCM system. Also, these missiles can use contrast locks. The AIM-9X that shot down that Chinese spy balloon a while back used the contrast of heat signatures in the sky, rather than locking onto a specific heat signature.
Now we are gaming
I hope they give it quad racks next update
Balanced game.
I am still mad at the fact that it’s been over a year, and they are still sitting on the Stinger buffs, there is zero excuses for it now that DLIRCCM is a thing.
1 Like
Don’t forget the Contrast Seeker mode bypasses LDIRCM wholesale, so it’s got further implications. Considering many nations have FIM-92B or later variant equipt vehicles it would provide said capability to most nations.
How can a LMUR provide a video feed to the heli?
That could only come from an FPV drone more likely an Lancet.
1 Like
It transmits the footage from the seeker? It’s an NLOS missile, not exactly magical technology.
EO guidance has been a thing since the 80s with the early SPIKE NLOS, not new technology
I wasnt aware it could do that. I like how it’s listed as a “protected” data link seeing how easy the UA have managed to break Russian EW systems it makes me wonder how secure it is.
Buddy this is nothing new or exclusive to drones or FPV, even the Martel AJ 168 transmit TV signals and this was back on the 70s
Exactly, it would make most Stinger platforms in game somewhat usable against helicopters in top tier, not to mention DL capabilities in the K Stinger variant. Somehow we are to believe that a late 60s seeker from Strela is somehow better than a MANPAD from the 80s
And yeah everyone stopped using it.
We use GPS/Laser guided and use a TGP to confirm if a target is destroyed.
These sorts of datalinks tend to either need a direct line of sight, or be fairly close to the receiver to function, due to the Bandwith requirements of a two way data-link, and the impact of the carrier frequency needed to achieve that, let alone retain some reserve capacity to make the link more resistant.
Here’s an example of the GBU-15 w/ AXQ-14
