wait what? like youre not sure i have access to top tier air or heli?
Brimstones work exactly as well as LGBs against ground targets (or AAs for that matter), trading AoE effect of LGBs for combination of speed and HEAT warhead.
They do well in uncontested airspace. What was the last time you played CAS in uncontested airspace?
unlike helicopter that can engage from semi-concealed position, aircraft with brimstones or LGBs is much more exposed during its attack run. Helicopters also have much easier time keeping the target within its targeting FoV as they, you know, hower in place.
This is the maximall horizontal gimball limit for the Typhoons TGP, not even full 90° to target according to the RWR. Not to mention the fact that entiriety of your upper hemisphere is blocked by the aircraft itself due to TGP being mounted at the bottom of the plane, meaning you cant pull in towards your target without loosing track.
and unlike Kh-38MTs which are FnF, you have to babysit Brimstones for the entire duration of their flight, which at max range of 15km is almost a whole minute due to their abysmal speed.
fun fact, the Brimstone is so slow that i launched it, took the screenshot above, kept flying straight, and by the time i passed the ADATS the missile was still 30 seconds from impact.
so now you either have to
A) be a sitting duck for a whole minute to guide in the brimstone, severely limiting your range of movement as the gimball limit of TGP has a limited window from which it can “see” the target or
B) move closer and launch from well within enemy air defense net, making time to target shorter…and still being sitting duck for the entire duration of the brimstone flight
to fully guide in all your Brimstones to targets from max range would take almost 18 WHOLE MINUTES. if that number doesnt sound absolutely insane to you i dont know what to tell you.
ok but lets suppose you “queue” your brimstones, as in launch one when the other one is still in flight. you still arrive at the same issue of their speed being absolutely abysmal, which means that they wont have energy for any sort of wild flight course changes, less so for tracking a moving target.
so to conclude no, brimstones arent fine in most scenarios.
so do mavericks, but once the missile is off the rails you are free to defend in any way you like. and unlike Kh-38MTs, mavericks dont get IOG so they are easily defeated by smoke. not to mention Kh-38MTs are getting GPS guidance next patch.
again, TGP limits. If it wants to hit target, it needs to keep it in FoV of the TGP.
I suppose do the same thing I was told by BVM players before addition of 2A7V.
Aim for weakspots.