Just when we're at it about SAM's I'm going to raise my favourite one - would it be possible to have off-board SAM's?
OK, now it is possible to make and off-board arty unit armed with SAM's and with Radar FC. No problem here. Except in situations on-board version of the same fires with 80% accuracy, the offboard ones are lucky to get 16%... Also there was a problem with firing ARM's on them - the aircraft fired them but in a scenario where there are reinforcements waiting to be deployed, the game treats them as being in one hex with arty etc., because every ARM fired on the SAM's killed reinforcements as collaterral damage.
Now why I raise this?... Well, just for a feeling. The long-range SAM systems as Patriot or SA-4 IMO don't have a place on the SP battlefield, SA-4's were supposed to have first batteries at least 10 kilometers behind the frontline.
Well... Now ready for flaming

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