It has been a year since my previous thread regarding the TY-90 and the BR placement of the heli carrying them, since then I have had more experience with TY-90 heli and personally gone through stock grind of the Z-9W. Within this year, we have seen addition of new multi-vehicle SAM systems with ever increasing capabilities, various new and ever more advanced aircrafts for air superiority, and a wealth of FnF ATGMs for top tier heli. Now what is your opinion? Is the TY-90 the CAS killer it was? A few things I will say about the TY-90 and the heli carrying them: The capabilities of TY-90 carrying heli are far behind others at the same BR, and that is ignoring the painfully long stockgrind which would take up to 30 hours for them. (obviously capabilities outside of TY-90) The Z-9W at 10.3, holds up to 4 TY-90, or otherwise up to 4 km 590mm penetration SACLOS ATGMs. Z-9WA at 10.7 holds up to 8 TY-90 or the same number of AKD-9s, with 6km range and 750 pen. I have no doubt that this is far behind the capabilities of counterparts carrying hellfires and attakas in the same BR range, both in quality and loadout options. Here’s a few polls:
- Never
- once or twice
- A few times
- Many times
- Almost every time doing CAS
- Yes
- No
- Yes
- No
This is mainly towards Z-9s and Z-19s which lacks sufficient ATGM loadouts, less so for the others.