The meta favors the Pantsir, Patriot wouldnt be anywhere near the same capability
Not really sure what agenda you think i have here. I think patriot is very cool, i just dont think it would be very good in the game with the current meta. Maybe with a new game mode or something but not with how small the maps are now
And yet America just needs something better in the first place everyone else has Missiles that can reach past 10km with relative ease but the Claws and NASAMs just don’t infact the Aim-9 is best between 5-8 and the Aim-120 is best between 8-10km outside of that you’re basically praying the missile hits.
Thats not an issue of range. AMRAAM-ER can reach 30km no problem, the real issue is multipathing and notching being strong. Patriot wouldnt solve this issue, planes would shake off your lock just like they do now if you tried to make a long range shot. The game favors SHORAD by design.
Not quite. This thing exists, and it can carry 15 AIM-9Xs, Hellfire Longbows, Tamirs (interceptors from the Israeli Iron Dome), or 60 Miniature Hit-to-Kill missiles (designed specifically for intercepting munitions) per vehicle.
Also the BUK-M3 already in game has a stated minimum engagement range of 3-5km IRL, yet in game it can hit targets and intercept munitions at much closer ranges than that.
Buk is kinda of a special case since it has thrust vectoring missiles. They are half a ton telephone pole size missiles, yes but you get what i am saying.
probably one the best AA for in game would be 1 truck of this and 1 truck of NASSAMS with a fixed AMRAAM-ER
with a radar like they both should have, instead of the shitty implementation of the original sentinel radar NASSAMS has in game (it should at least use a later version)
There was a bug report on that which got accepted. Though who knows when it will actually get fixed, considering there was also another bug report to get the Sentinel radar TWS ESA, and they said it would be fixed during the Heavy Cavalry update, yet it did not get fixed and we have already had another major update since then.
given that we are still waiting for some multi year old ADATS radar reports to get fixed (including a massive radar elevation buff), I doubt this will get changed anytime soon