Whilst I agree that CAS may still reign supreme over the new SPAA, some players, including me, prefer to play SPAA over other vehicle types in games. However, the fact CAS is so good, doesn’t mean that Gaijin should just “give up” on adding SPAA systems to nations that desperately need it this update, in any case it should be the opposite, they should at the very least receive a place holder.
dont forget france is also stuck with the ITO, sure its one of the best nato sams currently, but it’ll be pretty much outclassed by everything in 2 weeks (except the Adats and Oto that is)
Absurd,Italy could have the GRIFO with the CAAM-ER missile,the MAADS System with the CAAM-ER , The MAADS with the ASPIDE missile,the SPADA,the SAMP-T, The ASTER 15/30,instead we are stuck with the Otomatic
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I completely understand that you feel left behind and even though I love the OTOMATIC it’s very lackluster in the current top tier environment and it should be lowered in BR, but I digress.
On the bright side, with 5 nations receiving powerful SPAA it should be easier to snug under the protective umbrella of these nations while playing Italy or Britain.
Not the best scenario, but at least the Pantsir is no longer the only viable top tier SPAA.
I just tested the IRIS-T SLM on the dev server and I’d be happy to keep my fellow Italians snd Brits safe from those nasty Su-30 and Su-34s 😀
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Yeah. CAMM is also for the brits with land ceptor.
It’s… a bizarre decision. I’d much rather they didnt’ bother with the badger and worked on land ceptor instead, or some premium plane was scrapped for the italians to get a decent top tier spaa as well.
As I said before, the adats ain’t cutting it, especially after it’s recent nerfs, and it really, really sucks to be left out.
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Issue is, although we will be safe from CAS. Britain and Italy will literally be unable to play SPAA, People whom enjoy SPAA gameplay will be completely shafted for the next 4 months unless they bite the bullet and change nation. It’s just incredibly poor from Gaijin
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France and sweden use the Ito which is the best NATO spaa but neither nations will receive spaa that are better than the Ito as far as we know for now.
SLAMRAAM can go to the US and Sweden but thats the only other nation that can get SLAMRAAM but i doubt gaijin will add SLAMRAAM to anyone else.
I don’t see why not, even if it’s just a placeholder.
There is no excuse to leave those nations out.
Oh i agree, was just giving an logical tie in. Id rather something thats bettter than what they have. It could be like the drone where its on the lineup.
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The 1st dev server usually doesn’t contain all the content coming with an update. Might be added on the 2nd or 3rd dev. We’ll just have to wait and hope.
BOL pods if we didnt have them do you think they would be 4 times less effective than standard cms?
If these had been added to the F-16C they would not have been nerfed
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Not a chances, maybe the SAMP T is ready but Raven/Sky Sabre wont be
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Sweden also receives an new SPAA, the EldE 98, which is equiped with IRIS-T missiles. Even though everything’s a little buggy and definitely not final on the dev server, that little thing looks really promising. It has only four missiles, but it’s capeability more thank makes up for that.
The best of them (in theory the German one) was nerfed and has a shorter range than the Pantsir. The missile may even be better, but what’s the point of putting 12km of range on a missile that has 20 in real life and the Pantsir continuing to be the best anti-aircraft overall. Or am I wrong?
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They already confirmed, Britain,Italy and France are getting them in September, so for the next 4 months, the anti air gameplay for those 3 nations is going to be completely void, it’s ridiculous
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I think you might be a bit mistaken, they said in the Russian stream it’s range is much greater, around 40km
The 12km range your looking at is the range of the seeker , the missile flies with DL & INS before the seeker turns on
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No they said nothing about Britain, they said France and Italy will receive the SAMP-T using the Aster.
But I would expect some kind of SAM for Britain maybe India or SA have a system.
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I will be incredible dissapointed and angry if an indigenous sam system is bypassed for some Indian or south african one. It would be indefensible.
Furthermore, having air defence neutered until september would be a complete joke.
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I have lost all hope in Gaijin and only one nation in game will use ASRAAM…
SkySabre should have come the mechanics and animations are basically the same as IRIS-T/Spyder systems
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It wouldn’t be so bad, if they hadn’t crippled the ADATS. You can’t even see the goddam missile past 4km, and that’s the thing they expect us to use? I get the flare burns out in real life, but the operator isn’t guiding the missile in real life.
They should have cut the badger, or some premium vehicle if that’s what it took for all nations to have gotten a decent air defence system.
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