So with the advent of the new SPAA’s i’ve come to learn one thing, they all SUUUUUUCK… in a sample size of the 250+ battles i’ve played since patch day i can tell you this: the new AA’s have a negative impact on your team simply because they either do not work or are intended to be absolute trash as to not dethrone the pantsir mains…
IRIS-T:
- IOG doesn’t work, the missile 80% of the time flies straight up and starts to make circles before eventually falling down, or worse yet! they fly in the opposite direction of the target for no reason what so ever.
- the IRCCM is so bad that a 9B has a better shot at hitting a plane from frontal aspect…
- you get so few of them that the KH spamming stickmonkeys will win the engagement without ever leaving their airfields AA range.
- even if they do go for the missiles, the odds are 70-30 that they will just miss, for no legitimate reason
i admit, i havent used the other ones, but considering i have literally 0 deaths to any of them outside of a couple suicide gun runs on their spawn in the last 30 seconds of a match i can’t imagine theyre faring any better.
Pantsir:
- quad autocannons that shred literally anything it looks at in 0.1 seconds
- beamrider with IRST so you dont get a warning, assuming you’re blind to the giant red dot flying at you as those clowns try to shoot you down
- supported by said stickmonkeys with a trillion KHs every single match
- missiles actually work, despite real world lackluster performance (see ukraine, most notable kill is a defenseless airliner…)
so once again it comes down to this, there is no equivalent in the non russian trees, britain got cucked once again lmao, sweden could’ve gotten the SLM aswell, or at least the the Giraffe AMB with 3-4 launchers since they only get the soy version of the iris-t and a quarter as many. literally, if you’re not a heli, and you’re not blind, you can not die to the new AAs in any scenario that isnt self inflicted as CAS.