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Nerdwing

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    By the way...if we're talking about ATGM missiles - why supersonic missiles( 9M123 for example) can be intercepted by APS?

    Why wouldn't it exactly?

     

    For the time being, it seems that maybe mission makers just need to keep in mind the handicap and add less APS-equipped Abrams to most missions IMO.

  2. The bitching about SOF getting owned by the capital systems of the CMBS battlefield (APS-equipped armor, automatic grenade launchers, massive ROF autocannons, near-universal airbursting HE) would be enormous. Like, it is hard enough for players to accept "recon battles" where the only objective is to push forward far enough to get spots on enemy heavy weapons, could you imagine when they go in with tier 1 operators and get facerolled by everything that counters dismounted troops?

     

    Plus AH-6 versus Igla  :lol:

  3. Yeah, its something that screws over a bunch of units.  US ones primarily in CMSF, and now the Kriz in particular is hurt by the problem.

     

    That weird "advance across the salt-flat terrain, here are some recon elements to help you" mission in the campaign best illustrated it.  You'd instantly get shot at by SPG-9's of all things!  From beyond their effective range.  :(

  4. I wonder how history will remember the T-80.  It was a nightmare of the Cold War and extremely capable in later variants especially, but circumstance and the unfortunate misuse in Chechnya seems to have really condemned the tank.  Will the perception trickle down to poor views in retrospect of the T-64, which was for its time an exemplary (revolutionary, maybe?) tank yet used in an environment for which it was unintended against more advanced armaments suffered noticeably?  

  5. Wait.... what generation of TI are we at currently?

     

    I thought the most modern stuff was still just 2nd generation.  Are we at third now?  Or fourth?

     

    I always figured stuff like the M1A1's thermal sight to be first generation.  Gulf-War/Cold War era stuff.   Its just like the damn "Whats a 5th Generation Fighter?" debate, I guess :(

  6. I played there for a bit.  Was the last survivor (I thought) in a PVP scenario, and was told to hold a hospital.  At the time of the assignment, we had a good 12 guys left.  15 minutes later, with me guarding a doorway into the janitor's closet, a friendly comes in unannounced and I smoke em due to reflexes and just the scenario being tense as hell.  Got yelled and ranted at in chat after, but w/e!  Still fun overall.

  7. There need to be more flight-sims with mutliple players in the same airframe.  Longbow 2 was one of the very last to do that.  DCS has it planned, and God knows Im looking forward to getting a friend to man the guns on my Huey, or (even further down the road) sling TOW-2's from my Supercobra.  Until then, its been a consistent gap in combat sims that has yet gone unsated since Longbow :(

  8. Personally, I imagine that any Russian mercenaries (and forgive me for using such a seemingly blunt term as mercenaries) would NOT be involved in attacking the cauldron.  They'd be the ones allowing the withdrawal and standing by in position.  Any attempts to close it were probably by Serperatists whom were not in favor of the truce and thus operating without a recognized chain of command.

  9. I think tanks will remain around.  The methods of armor estimations will probably eventually become a new "RHA-equivalent" as the materials and alloys involved get funky enough that using rolled homagenous plate as an analogue is less and less relevant.  

     

    APS seems to definitely be a thing.  It'll probably be more popular.  Its also pretty awesome.

  10. I see what you were trying to say now, Thing is Russian tanks do not get sent without support of other units this is a big fail if done. Russian tanks will be sent forward with recon units and ATGM teams and other assets, Plus the battle management system will provide this info, Im sure the Abrams will have its recon bradley units too. On a 1V1 if its flat terrain good vibility it all depends on range closer the Abrams is the more likely it will win, The farther the more likely the T-90 will win because of its ATGM even if it does not penetrate it will take out possibly the gun or sights. Same for any other situation, It all depends on who will get the round off, And I agree the Abrams will have the advantage of identifying the Russian tank first but if we are talking about a 1V1 it will not matter because both will know they are enemies.

     

    Yep.  Hence why so many folks find 1v1 static tests near useless for balance etc.  But still fun to see tanks shoot each other! :)

  11. My tank can beat up your tank

    Just sayin

     

    GET 'EM!!!

     

     

    Although I agree with just about everything you said about the classification, I do not believe the story about the .50 cal SLAP going through, that sounds a bit fake were speaking about a tank here.

     

    I think it was due to the external APU catching fire after being hit or some such?

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