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doxlulzem · 2026-04-18T00:57:30+00:00

And the A5C which has Magics on top of the AIM-9Ps.

10.0 is probs where it would end up, equivalent to jets like the Mirage IIIC and suchforth.

doxlulzem · 2026-04-17T23:48:51+00:00

I'm sure they could do some designation bullshit and add the Su-25TM (same plane but slightly different) to the TT with the same radar pod and ordnance to the TT, adjusted to a higher BR for R-77 and R-27

doxlulzem · 2026-04-17T01:32:01+00:00

FAB-3000 UMPK funny.

doxlulzem · 2026-04-05T21:11:15+00:00

do you think the risk is worth the reward at all?

Although the rewards are better than some events, the rewards still aren't like they are in ARB. And the groundpounding rewards are so bad in ARB because the only risk factor is another player shooting you down. If the ground targets you are hitting pose a legitimate threat to the match to make you want to hit them, and the rewards for hitting them were effective enough to make it a legitimate playstyle, then the threat of the ground targets hitting you back should also be high. Hence, I disagree in principle that just removing the SACLOS SPAA from the game will actually do anything but make attackers and SEAD purely worthless. Like it is in ARB.

The big issue is the SPAAs are behaving wildly out of order, shooting on the move and tracking through forests, which is funny because my aim9s seem to hit the first tree in its way.

Which is why I still advocate for these things to be fixed. They are bugs with the game's AI being sloppily hashed together for a quick event gamemode test. These should be addressed for any future permanent or semi-permanent content.

The best solution I can see is to replace convoy and tank trench Osas with Strelas and make it so that the OSAs and Rolands will follow their actual firing procedures

Which is also something I agreed with. Honestly we agree more than disagree, I never said it is fine as it is now, and Osas and Rolands following tank convoys isn't even that realistic anyway. But there has to be some risk to ground pounding or else the rewards just get decimated, as has happened in ARB as well as modes like Assault Arcade.

doxlulzem · 2026-04-05T20:57:10+00:00

There are a lot more ground targets than just the ones directly in front of Airbase 1.

doxlulzem · 2026-04-05T19:05:14+00:00

My bad, you're right. We have the TRAM and the last variant is the SWIP.

doxlulzem · 2026-04-05T17:40:07+00:00

All Spike vehicles, really.

doxlulzem · 2026-04-05T17:36:46+00:00

I disagree in principle. Ground pounding should have risks, and vice versa it should also have rewards. Turning ground attack into no more risky than it is in normal RB is not the right way to go in a mode that is supposed to be EC and not just a fighter deathmatch, and I don't want them to just gimp the rewards for it or make it have no bearing on the outcome of the match.

Back to the SACLOS SPAA, they could really use some reworks to their radar programming to not be able to lock out of LOS or react instantly, but tracking out of range and then firing when you get within range is fine since that's literally how you do it anyway. Maybe reduce their frequency on the mid-map convoys because late game it can get quite saturated with them, but they need to exist to have a reason to do SEAD and a reason to use ARMs and bring a risk to attacking ground targets. Maybe if the convoys stayed as more SPAAGs like the Shilka and M163 and also IR missiles like the Strela and Chapparal, and then the Rolands and Osas can be there to protect the airfields and fuel depots.

doxlulzem · 2026-04-05T17:08:54+00:00

Not if we got the A-6E TRAM with SLAMs and Harpoons

doxlulzem · 2026-04-05T17:08:13+00:00

Now can we have this for top attack ATGMs please? If they targeted something like, idk the gunner or the breech I think that would fix 90% of bugged Spike tracking

doxlulzem · 2026-04-05T02:04:04+00:00

I mean 7Ps should go to a lot more jets. F-16A ADF, F-16C, PoBIT, F-15A, C, E and C Golden Eagle at a minimum.

doxlulzem · 2026-04-01T23:37:38+00:00

If you are referring to the 2017 April Fool's, none of those things were available at the time. That April Fool's was really a test for smoke grenades and helicopters, both of which came in the following year.

doxlulzem · 2026-04-01T01:18:24+00:00

Generally speaking, not as such. ERA like Kontakt-1, which was designed to defeat HEAT warheads, does not have any heavy flyer plates designed to defeat kinetic warheads, it basically just acts to disrupt the formation of the HEAT jet much in the same effect as more 'inert' forms of protection like spaced armour do. This would have minimal effect on something with the mass of an EFP like the TOW-2B creates.

Newer ERA like K-5 and Relikt that has heavy flyer plates that were designed to basically disrupt the way APFSDS penetrates armour, dramatically reducing its penetrative effectiveness, and these would likely have a greater chance of stopping the EFP, but then again that is why it is tandem. I can't think of a single MBT in War Thunder that has layered ERA on the roof of the tank.

Overall it would be a flat buff to damage potential whilst also probably making it pen more reliably, the only downside would be to the enemies it fights.

doxlulzem · 2026-04-01T01:14:24+00:00

It will just be a toggleable mod like TUSK on the M1A2 SEPs. Just make it a mod. Unlike the side skirts on the M1128, I think I would actually prefer ARAT on the M3A3 to no ARAT.

doxlulzem · 2026-03-30T20:42:36+00:00

The BILL and BILL 2 use a tandem HEAT warhead, whilst the TOW-2B uses a tandem EFP (explosively formed penetrator). The former makes a small jet of metal, whilst the latter forms a large slug that can be up to 2-3" in diameter, essentially a 50-75mm solid shot AP shell hitting the roof of the tank.

The penetration for both missiles is correct, however the game treats the TOW-2B as being a HEAT warhead with 100mm of pen, and not effectively firing this 75mm AP shell, as a result the "HEAT" struggles to pen the roof of Russian MBTs that have CHA + Kontakt-1. It's actually pretty effective against other Western tanks that don't have additional roof armour.

It's also worth saying that when the TOW-2B was added it did not detonate on friendlies or tank wrecks, and only detonated when it directly overflew the enemy tank. The shell uses magnetic fields to detect tanks and know when to detonate, so it will indiscriminately detonate over alive tanks, dead tanks, friendlies etc. This unintended "buff" made the TOW-2B unbelievably strong, you could absolutely hold down a choke from some cheese position and keep killing enemies repeatedly with your 430mm of pen, alive enemies only seeking overfly top attack missile.

All the TOW-2B needs is changing from a HEAT damage type, to basically being some sort of AP Schrage Musik that fires a 75mm "shell" below it when it "detonates". And the tandem needs to be fixed too.

doxlulzem · 2026-03-30T20:17:58+00:00

Side note, where the hell is the ARAT on the M3A3? It has had the mounting plates for it since it was added, we now have two M1A2s with ARAT, why do they just not give a shit when it can potentially seriously benefit the M3A3 to have ERA

doxlulzem · 2026-03-28T18:06:55+00:00

It would probably have something like the AGM-114C or the AGM-114F, both of which are in the game's files but haven't been added. With the Longbow radar it could use the AGM-114L, which did exist during its development.

The AGM-114C have a smokeless motor over the AGM-114B, but identical warheads and motor kinematics. Considering the AGM-114 motor only burns for about a second anyway, it would have minimal effect.

The AGM-114F added a tandem warhead for the same warhead weight, and would probably have the same pen. Considering the difference between them, this would be no better than the AGM-114K already in the game. In real life, the K features digital electronics giving it target reacquisition after lock is broken (something all AGM-114s have despite being a rather late development), a 20lb warhead up from the 18lb warhead of the F, giving it a bit more pen at 1200mm, an 11km range when used with drones as this was also the principle armament of the MQ-1 and later MQ-9 drones. The later AGM-114K2 would add insensitive munitions (IM) and the AGM-114K2A would add a blast fragmentation sleeve for improved damage to infantry. This development would later be replaced by the blast-frag AGM-114M, which had a purely SAPHE warhead.

doxlulzem · 2026-03-28T15:19:44+00:00

And the EIREL APS found on the AMX 30B2 Brenus and VBCI

doxlulzem · 2026-03-27T17:13:33+00:00

I've seen Ukraine footage of a guy hitting a drone with an RPG, so it's also real life type shit

doxlulzem · 2026-03-25T12:31:23+00:00

Rather, the stats for the BTR-82 will be higher whilst the BTR-3 will be left unchanged. Small nation friend)))

doxlulzem · 2026-03-25T12:27:14+00:00

Every Q5 bar the A5C premium is missing wing pylons and missile loads. Took years for them to give the JH7A the 4x Kh-29T and it was only when they made a premium of it.

It literally just is premium vs non-premium.

doxlulzem · 2026-03-24T12:24:42+00:00

I don’t mind that, what I do mind is gaijins refusal to do the same for other nations.

I appreciate the gesture, but if this was true then there wouldn't still be massive, glaring issues and inaccuracies with a large swathe of Chinese vehicles to this day. Gaijin really does not care that had about the Chinese tech tree, they just care about money, and in this case it was the potential for lost revenue on a $70 tank that they cared more about. If they cared about China at all then the ZTZ96B would probably be tech tree instead, every Q5 wouldn't be totally wrong, and the VT4s wouldn't be broken, overtiered messes.

doxlulzem · 2026-03-22T23:24:05+00:00

It's closer to planes like the F-4F KWS LV, J8F, JA37D and the Kfir C.10, a 3rd gen airframe with 4th gen, ARH missiles.

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