A cluster bomb-dispender

[weak pagoda]

A dispenser that can release hundreds of small bombs (like the mw1 dispenser)

[sly totem]

could be effective against areas filled with SAMs

[weak pagoda]

That was exactly the primary purpose that I thought, with also deleting lanes of vehicles

[boreal magnet]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MW-1 "The MUSPA mine, officially classified as an anti-aircraft mine, has an acoustic sensor which triggers the mine when the right acoustic signature is detected." Anti aircraft mine? Now that's something I haven't heard before.

[hard prawn]

just make them all smart bombs with a shaped charge. You get a few dozen of them to drop and they can be targeted at individual vehicles.

If you target a ship they go for it's weapons automatically

[wind tapir]

Cluster munitions is already a suggestion

[hot trail]

this is a little different so ill leave it

[edgy breach]

would be awesome for popup attacks, if the munitions were a little smart you could target the sams and just blanket the whole area in a quick pass

[gleaming arrow]

https://patents.google.com/patent/RU53431U1/en

[edgy breach]

yes PLEASE
I hate AI chicanes, id give anything to keep them away from my precious highway base
I want Chicanes getting smacked with EFPs lol

I just really like submunition dispenser pods, and they could be useful if the guidance is small enough. although for the "late cold war" tech level we have, probably not. otherwise its just neat to deploy mines to slow convoys and cluster bomb bases to try to sneak though AD

[distant shore]

this sounds cool but how would this be optimized? my game already lags a ton when a darkreach releases a cruise missle salvo

my proposal is maybe instead of launching 100s of individual mines, send out 10 mines but give each a model of dozens of mines, while having a larger hitbox to represent that

[golden python]

or here me out
have it deploy these instead and they can act as single use anti armor turrets

BUT make it so if some one is looking for them a dumb bomb or some thing can be used to disable or destroy them

I'd would also add a min drop altitude and arming time so they are extremely hard to deploy over hostile territory in order to prevent them from over taking the role of atgm's

it should lower the lag that the clusters would cause and make having awacs and recon way more important

[edgy breach]

I think min height would be better than max height for drop limits, so you cant just be a mega gremlin and so they can like parachute deploy or something
Also makes features like wind more annoying lol

[hard prawn]

just make a dispenser for those cluster bomb skeet things but it drops them one at a time or in bursts of three or something. You could dive armored vehicles with it and be able to destroy a significant amount of them compared to using bombs since they take up much less space.

oh I just sorta repeated myself from earlier

[burnt laurel]

Anti aircraft mine dispenser if youre being chased and harrassed by some ifrit

Drop them and watch it crumble

[distant shore]

this but anti missile

[burnt laurel]

Missiles are a bit.. fast, but maybe.

[edgy breach]

i do like the smart skeet idea, would probably need multiple hits to kill and do little against MBTs, or maybe limit accuracy

[hard prawn]

precision bomblet dispenser, I just invented a new weapon

yeah I mentioned burst firing because I figured it would need a few hits to take out certain vehicles

[hot trail]

the skeets (in the cbu 97/105) are designed for anti armor and effortlessly penetrate the armor of modern MBTs afaik

[wind tapir]

They also defuse or self detonate after a short duration which is epic

[hard prawn]

#1265493921828700202 there now you can vote on it if you want

[edgy breach]

which is why i say reduce accuracy instead since realistically an EFP makes swiss cheese out of a tanks roof

or we could just make the bomblets DP and slightly guided