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Old September 27th, 2007, 07:56 AM
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Default Re: Surface to Air Missile Inconsistencies

Funny you should raise that issue, I've been bumping on the same for a couple of days. Wait until you factor in the equivalent Russian SAMs which have wildly varying HE values for similar warheads, or reverse. Not even mentioning the accuracy scaling where the western bias is way larger than for ATGMs... that's another matter.

As regards the differences between OOBs, this is simply because different OOBs have been created and updated at different times by different persons, sometimes with different views on the values to give, and no one has time to check up all the OOBs and review and compare all these figures, and as importantly, no one would agree on a common value.

Thing is, there is no other scale to which we could relate the SAM HEK/WHS values.The class-11 bombs and the artillery won't work because the weight-to-payload ratio is in a different league (around 10% explosive for iron shells against 30-50% for SAMs)
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