The Typhoon equipped with Brimstone replicates the Brimstone air-to-ground missile’s performance or models it after something similar to the Kh-38, rather than using semi-active laser guidance

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Under the current game mode, the matchmaking system cannot solve the problem of lacking air-defense coverage within a single match. Typically, no one brings SPAA at the start. After everyone gets wiped once by KH-38 or KH-29 strikes, multiple players suddenly spawn SPAA at the same time, causing the ground team to lose its advantage and the rest of the match to turn into garbage time.

There is also no proper tutorial for split-system SPAA, especially regarding radar and missile mechanics. Even premium players who get IRIS-T SLM–type vehicles don’t understand how to intercept KH-38 or KH-29. And when a team has only one split-system SPAA player maintaining air defense, it becomes impossible for them to effectively counter both helicopters equipped with strong infrared countermeasure suites — the so-called “AT field” by players — and more than one aircraft carrying KH-29 or KH-38. Helicopters with this IR-protection “AT field” can simply climb, stay in a safe standoff hover, and hard-kill the SPAA along with friendly tanks. This brings the match back into the cycle I mentioned earlier: a sudden mass SPAA spawn that wipes out the team’s tank advantage.

As a result, the Typhoon is forced to carry Brimstone and AIM-120, flying at ultra-low altitude all the way to the enemy heliport to hunt helicopters and fight for air superiority. If it wants to perform CAS, it can only execute ultra-low-altitude penetration against SAM systems like the Buk-M3, and even then it can destroy only a single TEL or the radar vehicle (the targeting pod will fail to kill the Buk-M3 radar vehicle unless manually adjusted).

Split-system SPAA missiles are easily decoyed by rockets like the KH-38. Since Soviet aircraft and the Rafale can fire KH-38-class weapons from medium altitude, maintaining both strong A2G capability and high aerial survivability, why can’t Brimstone and U.S. weapons such as the GBU-53/B adopt similar launch profiles and guidance mechanics? Not to mention that in the new update, Japan now has another aircraft capable of carrying the KH-38.

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Imo I’d be happier with only carrying 6 fire n forget brimstones than 12 laser guided

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Forcing German players into this kind of playstyle means that—if I were in the same situation—I would also choose the six "real"Brimstones instead of twelve or eighteen. The Typhoon has already been stuck with this playstyle for almost a year. After the last helicopter-weapon update, taking the Typhoon into the air may give you plenty of targets—enemy aircraft on the RWR, split-system SPAAs, helicopters, RLDs or Pantsirs, ITO 90Ms, and so on—but the entire experience is pure suffering.

Because of the turret-basket issues on both the Leopard 2 and the M1, high-skill players have long abandoned the German and U.S. trees. Anyone who invested heavily in Germany gets very little value out of it, and the ground team also loses extremely quickly.

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Gaijin be like: For British main, we not gonna fix the Brimstone. But as compensation, we give you the kh-38 from Su-30MKI. Why? Because Russia is the best!

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its easier to model a fake missile over a real one as you can make crap up