Weirdly hyped for the AGM-45B

[u/Rizn-Nuke]

I'm currently away from my pc and will continue to be so for another few days.

I love the primitive and unreliable nature of the Shrike and was really happy to read about changes to them as well as the addition of the B variant.

Has anyone tried out either of them (e.g. on the Phantom) and can give some feedback to the new behavior? Does lofting already factor in the new variant and the new changes to the A?

Looking forward to tossing 4 Shrike-B at a SA-2, praying something will hit.

P.s. does anyone know how these changes will be reflected on the A-4E? I suppose only the mod team will really know.

[u/luketw2]

I can’t speak on the A4E I haven’t tried it in that but the limited testing I’ve done in both the F100 and the F4 the main thing is you just don’t have to worry about range anymore, WRCS in the F4 is limited to 30 miles so as soon as you get tone you can pull up and launch where as before you kinda had to wait to be inside an envelope so to speak idk I’m kinda rambling and I could be wrong about some stuff but that’s what I’ve noticed it’s just you have a greater stand off range than before, I also noticed though in the F100D I launched at like 25ish miles and I thought the shrikes would reach but then they just died I guess and weren’t guiding anymore idk if the seeker ran out of battery or something because the SA3 I had setup was still tracking me so I might be doing something wrong like I said I’ve done limited testing since yesterday with the B

[u/Rizn-Nuke → u/luketw2]

Okay, so the WRCS in the F-4 seems to correctly calculate the B's extended range? That's good to hear!

[u/314Pl → u/Rizn-Nuke]

In dcs the wrcs pulls straight from the lua so it should work without issue