MIM 72E

[Angelis Mortis]

According to the wiki MIM 72 C and E have identical stats. So what is the difference? Why bother upgrading?

[Razgriz]

E is a smokeless motor = no white missile trail. IE harder for a pilot to detect and evade or track the trail back to you.

[Angelis Mortis]

That's not really worth it IMO. It's easy to see where it comes from smoke or not. Appreciate the answer

[mrunuick]

I think you're undervaluing a smokeless motor. As response #1 stated, it also makes it more difficult to know there even is a missile coming, thus more difficult to dodge. You can't see it so you can't dodge out of the way as easy either. It's completely impossible to tell there's a missile without MAW. Plus there's no downside aside from ammo being slightly more expensive.

[Angelis Mortis]

Originally posted by mrunuick:

I think you're undervaluing a smokeless motor. As response #1 stated, it also makes it more difficult to know there even is a missile coming, thus more difficult to dodge. You can't see it so you can't dodge out of the way as easy either. It's completely impossible to tell there's a missile without MAW. Plus there's no downside aside from ammo being slightly more expensive.

Probably in realistic battles but I play mostly arcade which, being able to spot everyone on the map as an airstrike, being smokeless is fairly useless. I can see the advantage in realistic though.