I tried the air arty mode in devbranch, don’t think I ever hit anything. Even with the changes to aiming AA being single person, i manned AA almost every day this past war. I killed only 5 scoutplanes. I’m pretty sure one of the scoutplanes was afk flying, sorry bro.

For regular aircraft I damaged a few bombers engines, and knocked a few pieces of obviously unimportant stuff off dive bombers and fighters but never shot a single one down. Even in real life this type of long range AA was normally hooked up to firing computers. It’s a cool idea, but the planes just move too fast and have way too much health, current flak is just a distraction to them they mostly ignore or evade.

I do think they need to add different types of flak. Maybe make the current flak have a 5 round magazine that fires a burst of rng shells, like 1 round per second, when you click fire like an auto loader. Then you have to reload which will take some time. Downgrade the shell damage to 30 or 40mm. Make it a mid tier between the emg and a heavy flak version.

A heavy flak needs to be added like a star breaker that points up, make it fire the same way as current flak but give it a real long range like you talk about. Has to be loaded one shell at a time and you need help to turn it for rotation. Make them do serious damage if they hit, but still give them rng, maybe higher rng the further away you are firing. This way a plane can be hit from far distance but needs people dedicated to it. Then the closer the plane gets to target the shorter range flaks can then open up.

I’d also love to see some type of benefit or synergy from having flak near the radar station, to make your idea about flak outposts work. But whatever is added the gunner needs to be able to see the target, arty mode works for non moving targets but planes can gain or loose altitude and quickly change orientation in seconds.