As the title says, I fail to get why both Swingfire and Striker don’t have one of the key things that set the vehicle apart, that being the guidance head being able to be periscoped over cover. It feels like it defeats the entire point of having the Swingfire missile in the game, as you can’t make use of the main advantage of the missile, that being able to fire from behind cover.
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Do you mean this?
I don’t they have it, this is a very uncommon feature among combat vehicles, specially early Cold War vehicles.
The swingfire actually did. Though it’s a lot more similar to a submarine periscope than the modern versions of it. Sight is literally on a long stick and with how it’s modelled in game the gunner needs eyes in his chest to use it as it’s not fully extended.
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The fact the swingfire still cant swing fire the missile is a shambles though… Striker can do it, FV438 swingfire cant…
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That thing looks like WALL-E
Both are literally unusable because of this. You have to sit with your missile rack exposed in order to fire because the optics can’t see over cover. I’d rather be playing ANY other missile carrier at their BRs.
Have you played the Type 60 ATM? Worst ground ATGM platform experience in the game.
The Swingfire can fire over shallow inclines. Is it as good as it is IRL? No. Should it be? It should. Will Gaijin buff it? Most likely not, unfortunately.
At lest it sits at a br where its not facing stabalized darts or tanks with lrf every game. And i’m not sure why people would play mid-teir japan and expect good tanks though. It was literally in a demilitarized era.
Swingfire can fire over inclines, but can’t see over inclines. Thats the problem. The binocs sit at the level of the missile rack.
It doesn’t need to. The Type 60 ATM is as big as a house and can be .50 cal’d to death frontally - 7.62’d from the sides and the launchers are huge and easily disabled by MG fire, not to mention how large they are to the point you cannot not hide them. Oh, and the missiles despite about 600mm of pen are as slow as molasses and easily evaded by anything bar the slowest behemoths in that BR range.
Even at the BR it’s at it’s basically dead in the water.
Also, the Swingfire can see over inclines. Shallow inclines, as I already covered. It’s simply the steep ones it cannot.
Not that such an issue shouldn’t be fixed, but it’s still not dead in the water compared to vehicles like the Type 60 ATM.