So bizarre to me. I guess we all aren't working with the same hardware. When I was younger I might have been interested in a pill that calmed the fucking thing down.
Could young women be getting naggier?
More scientific studies need to go into the effect of female nagging on reduced male performance.
you fucking ape nigger, this isent the fucking 80s, the platform was developed 50 FUCKING YEARS AGO
the world has changed war has changed
you know the only kind of helicropter in modern warfare? stand off long range artilery like the Ka-52, the idea of CAS is absoloutly forgien you dense fuck, follow the modern wars for even a second and you know that a liotering mution drone would LOVE NOTHING MORE than a big fat, slow 30 million dollar helicopter to make it go pop
shut up about shit you dont know about
1) Ka-52 was designed in the 80s and introduced in the 90s. Given the half-a-generation lag of Soviet aircraft, it's basically just as Xoomer as the Apache.
2) "What is JAGM-MR?" Alex
3) As others have pointed out, (((Spike-LR))) but if we are bringing up allied Apaches I'd like to throw Brimstone into the chat as well
4) Actual combat in both Desert Storm and OIF saw Apaches lighting up the Republican Guard from a stand-off range outside the envelope of shoulder-mounted MANPADS and AAA guns.
IT MEANS THERE IS ANOTHER ASSET GIVING THEM EXACT COORDINATES YOU FISH
This also applies in-practice to LMUR. When firing over the horizon, the copilot/weapons officer should ideally have a rough idea of coordinates to the enemy target, because the missile engine doesn't have the time & endurance to just fly around and seek. It's still an anti-tank/anti-surface and NOT a loitering munition.
Otherwise, without knowing there is an enemy there, just throwing the missile and hoping to find a target is going to result in the engine burning out and the missile crashing harmlessly or being forced to settle for a less-optimal target.
Furthermore, LMUR is more common in service with the Mi-28N ("Havoc"), while most Ka-52 in Syria and Ukraine have relied on Vikhr missiles. Even the modern 2024 variant of the "Vikhr-1" is still line-of-sight. Even then, more Ka-52 sorties have been lobbing unguided rocket runs than have been running specific precision attack missiles.
Pretty much at those ranges the only real difference that an 8-12km Vikhr is gonna make over a 6-"8km+" Hellfire or JAGM (or (((Spike))) & Brimstone for allies) is very specifically certain SHORADS missiles (mainly 9K22 Tunguska).
Both are going to be fine against any AAA gun and most MANPADS, and both are still gonna eat a Buk to the face if they are within line-of-sight.
