all weapons are balanced on their own. this thread is for us helicopters if you want vikhrs to have their pen changed make a post about it. this is about hellfire.
Clearly the point went over your head.
Vikhir = too powerful = gets nerfed
hellfire becomes too powerful = gets nerfed.
but it wont become too powerful
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hellfire is currently too weak while vikhr is fine
hellfire never was too powerful, it wasn’t nerfed. it has been underperforming since launch
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None of these changes would be a buff outside the reduction to time of flight, though
All The changes to the flightpath would really do is;
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Reduce maximum range by a kilometer since LOAL mode is “verboten” (as per brimstone), and significantly increase minimum range out to 500, 800 and 1400m depending on the variant as detailed in FM 1-140.
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Especially if as outlined in the previously provided graphs; Cloud cover is not adjusted to account for this on most map generation since the other thing the chart contains is effectively how much the Hellfire’s loft as it forms the boundaries of the various zones and would subsequently also increase the effective (terminal) Angle of Attack of the missile to be significantly greater than it is
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Allow for the trading of maximum range for (slightly) reduced Time of Flight. Though the use of LOBL-HI / -LOW / -DIR.
Especially since the Non-HEAT / Unified Target Set (-114R) warhead variants are not present in game and with the way HEAT charges simply don’t produce Fragmentation / Blast overpressure the way they should performance (should be ~87.5% of an equivalent TNTe HE warhead.) is limited.
From what people were saying, the atgm range would be beyond 7 miles distance.
Being able to swap with direct / top down.
Proxy fuse.
= huge br increases or something similar. As this atgm has 1200mm pen right now as is.
Find a source for it then, missile manufacturer says 800mm in their export catalog.
No. I do not think it warrant higher BR than FnF helis
This has plenty of sources at the bottom, I believe it’s Czech, but it states 1000mm RHA.
And they Vikhir-1 from 2022 has increased speed and range. But we are talking about Vikhir M
Maybe, maybe not. Highest atgm range of all helis (higher than spaa range), 16x ATGMs, 1200mm pen (400mm than Vikhir in game, although it should be 200mm difference).
Multi modes.
Depending on the airframe and total capabilities, it would most likely spike a lot of heli brs.
Think of the OH-58D. It can sit behind a hill invisible to the enemy. It has crazy pen for its br, and I believe 4 ATGMs with range to take out spaa easily.
1000%
We should get AGM114L
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even if we dont get 114L the flight profile and IOG should be fixed, possibly also adding a blast/frag varient with a proxy fuse to more reliably deal with other helis or AAs
right now if you cut laser to evade even 5 or so seconds before impact the hellifre will miss and not damage an AA despite the IOG
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