Functionally, these kinds of missiles either have this kind of proxy or simply don’t have any at all. Patriots come to mind immediately. The primary purpose is interception of Ballistic missiles, proximity fragmentation doesn’t decisively kill fast-flying hypersonic ballistic missiles since they can fly faster than the proxy can react. Similarly to Patriots with proxy, they are only there for a moderate degree of increased effectiveness against smaller targets. These missiles have to be small, fast, maneuverable, and precise.
Their primary purpose isn’t interception of small aircraft. In fact, repurposing towards this has hampered the effectiveness of Aster 30’s Ballistic Missile Interception capability, which is why the Block 2 was outlined with very different requirements. Direct impact with a Ballistic Missile assures it cannot accomplish its mission. Proximity Fuze results in situations where the target is able to continue its mission or do unwanted damage elsewhere
I hope they make Aquila solid booster + ramjet sustainer + solid propellant terminal dart with a swappable seeker (i think it was one of the considered choices and it seems the most promising from an outisde POV)
If SAMP/T NG is added to Denmark in game one day, it will most likely be more similar to the french one, as they were bought with Thales ground fire 300 :
10-20 meters would still be unrealistic, since an aster 30 intercepted a missile 4 meters above the sea, and for the buk, with its 25 meters proxy, multi path isnt a big issue. The thing is that gaijin add everything, without balancing it. Adding such sam but not adding new defense systeme for jet is kinda stupid. They add everything without thinking about consequences on the gameplay. We still have no electronic counter mesure, not spectra systeme or equivalent, we start seeing those systemes for heli but not for jet.
I think people tend to forget that missiles turn off their proxy fuse when the ground is in range of said proxy fuse, so flying under 25m means that buk3 literally would not be able to kill you (unless it exploded on the ground and splashed you, but its flight profile is completely different than some phoenixes fired from an orbital f14)
