British Tracked Rapier - How to position effectively?

[Traslo]

I feel like I'm missing something when it comes to positioning British Tracked Rapier AA properly. They have bad stealth and seem to constantly get spotted through treelines, but put them any further back or behind real cover and their medium range is basically nullified to waiting / hoping an aircraft goes directly overhead.

Am I doing something wrong with these? I generally have no issues with making sure my javelin AA is in good spots but the Rapiers always seem like they have to be too far back.

[oddball]

They are a revenge kill unit. You position them in a semi circle behind where you intend to fight so that as a plane goes in for a bombing attempt it crosses them one at a time and they can all fire, with at least one likely to be firing when the plane is near. They're pretty survivable and mobile so you can move them around after they shoot and they have good magazine depth so you aren't required to buy a truck for them right away.

For close in aa support as a brit deck you want the jav/jav lml/sas. LML is very good for mashing helicopters because it can yeet out three missiles in quick succession. SAS is just generally lethal. If you have three tracked rapier and a mix of manpads scattered around you'll pretty much always kill planes that annoy you.

[Tactical Whiffs]

Originally posted by oddball:

They are a revenge kill unit. You position them in a semi circle behind where you intend to fight so that as a plane goes in for a bombing attempt it crosses them one at a time and they can all fire, with at least one likely to be firing when the plane is near. They're pretty survivable and mobile so you can move them around after they shoot and they have good magazine depth so you aren't required to buy a truck for them right away.

For close in aa support as a brit deck you want the jav/jav lml/sas. LML is very good for mashing helicopters because it can yeet out three missiles in quick succession. SAS is just generally lethal. If you have three tracked rapier and a mix of manpads scattered around you'll pretty much always kill planes that annoy you.

Second this - Rapiers generally don't intercept bombers, but they might get them on the way out.