I’ve been playing the SU-30 with KH38s and I can tell you turning off your radar and turning it back on is a gamble for any nation not running the greatest CAS in GRB today. I can fire my KH38s and in my thermals I can see lots of enemies turning off their radar but the problem is it doesn’t help them one bit. It has personally made it a lot easier now to kill spaa in any nations because of that.
I find a good opportunity faking it, allowing my once intercepted missiles in other nations, make it to them and their teammates.
I know SM-SV is not strong when going up against HARMs due to the speed and agility of the missile from my experience but I think at this point Gajin is just struggling to keep up with balance as they continue to churn out more and more content. As long as you fly around and fire your HARM from a sensible spot vs spawning and launching right away any SPAA is usually caught by surprise even SM-SV, this imbalance is to encourage GRB players to grind for top tier jets vs just spaa
Other nations just need more defense against missile similar to the SM-SV than what is currently available I personally run F16 when not playing in maps where I can use radar spaa effectively and it works very well.
You only have few options in top tier that are very effective:
Play aggressively that your enemy cannot spawn their CAS
Play in a squad to ensure better win rates and communications
Grind a fighter which are cheaper to spawn with only A2A loadout and counter the enemy
Move cover to cover against helicopters if possible if not, just J out. Not worth your mental health seeing 3-4 helis fully loaded on any nation wipe out your entire teams momentum and spawning spaa just to die. There are maps where it is simply impossible to do anything against helicopters without Jets.
When I say near them, I assume Gaijin doesn’t have it to where the only thing they can see is the radar. A pplayer can spot a plane 2-3kms away visible if they’re looking in that direction, so I assume the saem curetosies are given. There’s also the early warning radars that assist them in this.
Need multivehicle sm sv. You spawn 2 more sm sv and they retain nuclear thunder aa ai while not used by player and act on their own. And drive in near spawn zone to avoid getting hit with gnss stuff.
Another huge milestone, likely the last one to be hit. Thank you all once again for the support.
However, despite the majority of players knowing fully well how strong this SPAA is, and the support this thread has gotten, gaijin purposely ignores its players and refuses to do anything about the performance gap between this vehicle and others. Lovely isn’t it?
Any thanks once again everyone, truly means a lot.
Whoever at gaijin decided to add the Panstir SM-SV and make it 12.7 i honestly hope you stub you toe and jam it, then when its about to heal you do it again and it repeatedly happens to you for the rest of your life. Cause this thing is a hot lot of bs. Especially dealing with it at 11.7
It’s roughly the same for the 57E6 (95Ya6), according to ROSOBORONEXPORT video warhead weight is 70% of total end weight, seems pretty much inline with eachother