Where's MITL for helicopters?

[F-16D_Barak_II]

@Stona_WT

To update you all we’ll be removing the TV-command guidance mode (MITL) for TV and IR seekers on helicopter weapons for the current Major Update.

We want to add this type of weaponry to helicopters for as many nations as possible in the next Major major update and then enable this mode for helicopter weapons at this stage.

Edit: To clarify better, we have changed “all nations” (which was intended to cover all nations with possible options) to “as many nations as possible” as nations such as Sweden simply have no option and dont currently have a top tier helicopter anyway at this time.

Every nation now has missiles with MITL capabilities (USA, UK, China, Israel have SPIKE NLOS, Germany, France, Italy, Israel have SPIKE ER, USSR has LMUR and China has the CM502KG)

[Deadsnake_war2]

MILT is NOT needed, plus not alot of nations has helicopters that can fire MILT missiles (Sweden)

[F-16D_Barak_II]

@Deadsnake_war2

plus not alot of nations has helicopters that can fire MILT missiles (Sweden)

That is one singular nation

@Deadsnake_war2

MILT is NOT needed

Unless you consider a missile going ~130m/s to be too hard of a target to hit with your coax MG

[Code_649]

@F-16D Barak II

Every nation

nope

[Gridt]

Helis and CAS are already broken enough

[F-16D_Barak_II]

What nation doesn’t? (Excluding sweden)

[Code_649]

How are you gonna exclude the one that literally doesn’t?

[F-16D_Barak_II]

Because gaijin defined “all nations” as all nations that have a potential aircraft that can be added and sweden is not one of them

You can’t expect sweden to get something they never had

[TheLastYouSee_psn]

I hope it stays well far away from being implemented.

[F-16D_Barak_II]

Why exactly?

[TheLastYouSee_psn]

Because i do not like the Idea of a heli being able to hide behind a hill, tilt itself slightly upwards to chuck it’s missile somewhere and proceed to use MITL to bring the missile in whilst the helicopter is completely immune from retaliation.

[F-16D_Barak_II]

So you prefer an unkillable helicopter firing off 16 missiles while being immune to top tier SAM instead?

[TheLastYouSee_psn]

no i also hate that.
just because its already bad doesn’t mean it has to get worse.

[Fragal]

hopefully buried and forgotten, lmurs are already cancer

[MiGoon_Fox-3]

Wdym instead?
We’ll have both of these once MITL is added to helis

[F-16D_Barak_II]

One is easier to counter than the other
MITL is just for the larp

[MiGoon_Fox-3]

MITL makes the enemy aircraft completely immune to SPAA

That alone is cancerous asf and enough justification for it to not get added.
Unlike aircraft Helis can sit much closer to the battlefield and re-arm significantly closer to it.
This is basically like the op MCLOS missile bug all over again

[F-16D_Barak_II]

@MiGoon Fox-3

MITL makes the enemy aircraft completely immune to SPAA

Yet it makes countering them much easier
Considering it takes 30+ seconds to guide a missile to the target, it will take over 8 minutes to guide all of your missiles, longer than most matches even last for.

Not even taking into account how aircraft hard counter you and your missiles are extremely easy to intercept.

A Pantsir SM-SV can intercept a full AH-64E SPIKE loadout 8 times over with just its missiles, not even using guns

[Glurae]

@F-16D Barak II

A Pantsir SM-SV can intercept a full AH-64E SPIKE loadout 8 times over with just its missiles, not even using guns

example

[F-16D_Barak_II]

Thank you for demonstrating
(CS/SA5 and PGZ09 can also do something similar with their AHEAD shells)