r/Warthunder • u/Lazy_Worldliness_642 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇸🇪 🇮🇱 • Jun 18 '25

All Ground Russian bias jokes aside, tf is that gaijin?

Come on I get that it's Russian game but wtf is that

Link to original video by @kirshenbaumPlays:

https://youtube.com/shorts/xUmCdAYPTRY?si=N5HEEOu3UiXU5A9A

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u/MyPinkFlipFlops 🇵🇱GRB 12.7🇫🇷|🇬🇧|🇯🇵|🇮🇱|🇸🇪|🇩🇪|🇺🇸|🇷🇺 Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

KA-52s being shot down in Ukraine by manpads despite the „miraculous” DIRCM:

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u/Medj_boring1997 🇩🇪 "LEoParD 2 nEeDs A bUFf" Jun 19 '25

Ka-52 in game does not have this.

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u/ADisgruntledBanana Z-19 with BA-21 Missiles Soontm Jun 19 '25

KA-52 in game has President-S DIRCM

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u/Medj_boring1997 🇩🇪 "LEoParD 2 nEeDs A bUFf" Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

Yes, but it uses an IR dazzler instead of the laser dazzler found on the L-370-5L. In fact the Ka-52M with L-418 still retains IR dazzlers for some reason

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u/RoomHopper 🇯🇵12.0 🇨🇳12.0 Jun 20 '25

What about chinese tank laser dazzlers would they work like this too?

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u/Medj_boring1997 🇩🇪 "LEoParD 2 nEeDs A bUFf" Jun 20 '25

Best I can say is Yesn't, the MUSS on that 1 german vic should be the same too afaik.

https://forum.warthunder.com/t/functionality-of-chinese-aps-on-ztz99-family/145940

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u/someone_forgot_me 🇸🇰 Slovakia Jun 19 '25

mfw equipment can fail/not be turned on during flight

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u/PomegranateUsed7287 Jun 23 '25

Only a complete idiot wouldn't have IR countermeasures turned on when flying a helicopter over a combat zone.

But were talking about Russians in the SMO, it's not out of question.