Ok i found it would use Umkhonto prototype. Interesting 20km IR SAM. Prototpye would probably have less range.
From what I can tell the missiles used were just known as ZA-HVM. It was an IR missile to replace the crotale used on the cactus. It was developed into the Umkhonto for use with the navy. I would assume it’s a worse version of the block I missile.
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so i give it 8-10km range and it can rest as it will never be here
F-16AJ and the Yak-41M. They still wouldn’t give us it because we’re British but if they ignore the rules sometimes then they should either ignore it all of the time or none of the time. None of this pick and mix shit
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I wish they would at least give the MTTD dm63, move it up and call it a day
I’m telling you, the stormer air defence is the perfect solution.
IR missiles, 25 or 30mm gun, stormer chassis. It’s perfect to fill the spaa gap. I can see it sitting at 9.3 same as the strela, possibly 9.7 depending on the belts for the gun and which stingers it receives. it is, quite frankly, stupid we don’t have it yet.
We won’t get it, because it would be fun and Gaijin but it would be perfect.
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When you look at the damage models of the Su25 and Kamov helicopters, it becomes quickly apparent there is nothing ultra-complex/realistic going on. It’s just a bit more involved than arcade shooters where you can hit the same place over and over again. There are some mechanics, like tank steering, which are awful compared to games like World of Tanks.
I’ve not seen them claim this before. Are they seriously claiming they can’t get the Stormer HVM launcher to properly slew-cue targets because it will put too much computational load on the servers?
That was when stormer was introduced. Radars were then rather new things so i got it, but now it wont work so they do not use it. SImply no for ballance or any other thing they fancy say
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You guys were not kidding when you said the starstreaks were broken. I got my first chance to test them in the test drive and it’s the worst SPAA in the game hands down. After launching 20 or so times i was just laughing at how it can’t really kill anything.
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It’s a joke when it comes to aircraft and for helis you have to rely on the heli pilot suffering from brain damage.
Which… Heli pilots so. Probably fine on that regard.
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Funnily enough I was playing a sim match and managed to kill 5 helicopters with the Stormer. It could be a connection issue but my internet isn’t reliable either so idk.
Tbh when the stormer works it’s one of the best SPAA in game. I can quite easily take out 8 or so jets/helis with it when the phase through bug isn’t rampant
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Based Stormer enjoyer. Its really frustrating its so broken right now.
Helicopters are less impacted by the current bug as they’re moving slower and have much lower angular velocity. Also from my testing with Smin seemed radial velocity was also a hard cap of if the missile would work. Over a certain speed it would phase through regardless of angular velocity.
Basically its turbo fucked.
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What about this ?
Starkstreak passing into the A-10 without damge twice ?
You see my reaction : ready to die…
The Discord ping made me check my own Discord :D
It’s a ghost spawn
I’ve played stormer and AHmk1 for pretty much all of StarStreaks phases and I’d say they feel like they can pull 60, I’ve said they felt like they can pull infinite G’s.
The issue is that initial launch moment, the darts don’t respond quick enough so you end up having like a minimum 3km range until it starts pulling properly.
It used to pull instantly and it was basically unavoidable granted the snail didn’t decide the missile will just phase through.
But past 3km, I’ve never had issues of planes out pulling the StarStreaks.
I’ve tested it before aswell, F104 going max speed and StarStreaks still keep up, the issue is at that speed, server fuckery happens and the darts basically dsync.
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Also launching StarStreaks activates LWS in like almost a 180 degree field.
When I tested it, helicopters would get a warning when they were sitting at the edge of my screen.
So you can’t hide the fact you’re firing them against helicopters, they’ll always know, even if you don’t aim at them.
ME when low emision laser that is is undetected by lws up to this day makes half of the map scream
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Presently intensity of lasers isn’t modeled, as such they don’t have a mechanic for low intensity lasers. This means LWR will detect the stormer guidance laser grid.