Chess96 Posted July 18 Posted July 18 KS-19 guided by the Son-9 will not engage aircraft flying at 5000ft beyond 5.5nm from their position. For aircraft flying at 10000ft the range falls just below 5nm. At 20000ft the KS-19s don't engage whatever the range. This is well below what is indicated by the threat ring on the F10 map (10nm). I think this is because the 10-13nm horizontal range that we can find online is for indirect fire i.e. when used as artillery. Having this range displayed on the map is a bit misleading in my opinion. The slant ranges for the mesurements I have taken are around 30000ft for an aircraft at 5000ft, 5.5nm away and 31000ft for an aircraft at 10000ft just below 5nm away. These values seem coherent with performance data found online although on the lower side. The biggest issue is the system not engaging anything at or above 20000ft. Given it is designed to engage high altitude bombers and is documented to be able to reach targets above 40000ft. It's interesting to note that the cannons will "wake" as soon as an enmy enters the threat ring but will then just move their gun around until the targets reach the mentioned ranges. KS-19 Underperforming.miz
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