This missile performs very poorly in combat most of the times it wont even inflict damage at all and in game works as a cloud of shrapnel while irl it shoots down two EFP slugs in a consecutive sequence (tandem), first slug aimed at defeating ERA and then second slug piercing the armor below it
the 100mm penetration also seems to be inaccurate for what ive been reading it goes as low as 165mm pen to other sources even stating values between 430~900mm of penetration which makes more sense considering it works similarly to HEAT while also working in tandem
where does this 100mm pen info comes from? because it seems like a custom value intended to nerf the missile performance rather than factual information, even the TNT value seems to be inaccurate (6kg tnt from most sources while in game 3,34kg)… most research gives way more penetration and tnt than that and by logic itself HEAT+Tandem should perform much better
2B isn’t that bad, it’s my most used missile in the game and I have over 1700 kills with it at this point. Also very good at getting assists as it tends to break turret components or hit crew without blowing the whole vehicle.
It seems like made up nonsense because that’s what it is. Curiously the Swedish equivalent is allowed to have more realistic performance, no bias here whatsoever.
Still the most effective way to use it is actually slamming it into light vehicles and letting the explosion do it’s thing. This probably wouldn’t work if it was modeled properly instead of half assing it by making TOW2 that fires into a different direction
Well, the performance was obviously reduced to make it terrible against russian tanks with their dome shaped turrets and ERA everywhere. Really funny when you consider that the missile more or less exists to destroy them
Yeah this missile currently blows - try firing it at the T62 with nothing ERA about it in a test drive you’ll be met with a fancy graphic that shows you tickled the turret in a curious way. you go back a few years and watch previous videos of this missile in game and it performs as you would expect a top down tandem warhead ATGM to perform systemically declawed over time to the point of useless.
I have no eyes, yet I see from a far,
Guided by threads, I glow like a star,
Not fire-and-forget, I demand your sight,
Two watchers guide me, steady and true,
A dance of aim till I pass clean through,
Armor may limit my strength and speed,
But I choose the weak spot, hidden from thee.
yea i should have done that, the report is there in that quote but i dont know if i can post information regarding such a thing directly, i remember there was a certain amount of time for information of modern weaponry (not that its that modern or classified but still)
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first wanted to use Shturm-S ATGM-VT for indirect fire purpose but it wont trigger on ground targets so it failed (really fun for anti helicopter tho wish it had two missile as khrizantema or tracker), now i farmed jagaur 2 for that purpose and its not efficient… i guess im gonna have to farm sweden now in order to live the dream
Irl they use different types of warheads the rb 56 uses a heat warhead while the tow 2b an EFP, gaijing in its laziness decided to give it the penetration of an efp with the heat model
