| « | RBS 70 is a man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS) designed for anti-aircraft warfare in all climate zones and with little to no support from other forces. It is a Short-range Air Defense (SHORAD) laser guided missile system. It can lauch upgraded BOLIDE missiles to altitudes of 5 km and track targets up to 8km away. Armoury Description
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The RBS-70 is a 106 mm anti-aircraft turret used exclusively by Czech military forces in ArmA 2. It was added with the release of the Army of the Czech Republic DLC.
Overview[]
The RBS-70 is a defensive, surface-to-air missile turret that fires beam riding missiles.
It has a maximum fire rate of only 15 missiles per minute. It uses a simple ironsight with an overlaid crosshair for aiming. Each launcher comes pre-loaded with a single missile and have a further nine to spare (for a combined total of ten missiles). The RBS-70's 106 mm missiles are fitted with high-explosive fragmentation (HE-Frag) warheads and are capable of striking aircraft at distances of up to 8,000 metres away.
One of the best static AA launchers in ArmA 2, the RBS-70 has double the maximum range of its American-made counterpart and unlike the Igla, is also capable of instantly acquiring a lock-on.
Because the RBS-70 can also make use of beam guidance, its operator can ambush helicopters without alerting the enemy pilot. At the same time, this technically makes the RBS-70 immune to being distracted by countermeasure flares; provided that they only attack the target by manually guiding the missile.
However, similar to all other static AA turrets, its only real drawback stems from the seekers on its missiles having low resistance to flares. Because non-manually guided missiles have a 20% chance of getting their lock-on get broken by flares, this makes the RBS-70 far less useful against fast and high-flying jets like the Russian Su-34 (manual guidance isn't as feasible of an option against fixed-wing aircraft).
Munitions[]
The RBS-70 can only launch one type of missile:
| Damage type | Base damage value |
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| High-Explosive | 70 |
Its missiles are fired with an initial velocity of 50 m/s. The motor will ignite 0.25 seconds after launch. It requires up to 3.5 seconds of flight time before it hits a maximum speed of 660 m/s.
Its warhead uses a high-explosive (HE) payload with a blast radius of 8 metres. The seeker has a 20% chance of losing lock to flare-based countermeasures.
Trivia[]
- Despite being stated as a laser-beam riding missile in its Armoury Description (as well as in real-life), the in-game RBS-70 is strangely capable of locking onto targets via infrared just like the U.S. Stinger.
- Prior to the latest CorePatch updates, the RBS-70's launcher tube did not emit smoke effects properly after a missile was fired.[1]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Mazzon, M et al. 2019, CorePatch, GitHub, viewed 11 July 2023, <https://github.com/Goliath86/CorePatch/blob/master/Changelog.txt>.
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See also[]
Static weapons of comparable role and configuration[]
- Stinger (USMC/U.S. Army static AA counterpart)
- Igla AA pod (Russian Armed Forces/Takistani Army static AA counterpart)
 ACR - Armoury (ArmA 2)
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| Handguns | CZ 75 9 mm • G17 9 mm |
| Submachine guns | CZ Scorpion Evo 3 A1 9 mm |
| Carbines | M4A3 5.56 mm (M4A3 M203) |
| Assault rifles | CZ 805 BREN A1 5.56 mm (CZ 805 A1 G1, CZ 805 BREN A2, CZ 805 B1 G1) • Sa-58V 7.62 mm (Sa-58P) |
| Sniper rifles | CZ 750 S1 M1 .308 • SVD Dragunov 7.62 mm |
| Squad automatic weapons | M249 Para 5.56 mm |
| Machineguns | M60E4 7.62 mm • UK-59 7.62 mm |
| Launchers | MAAWS • RPG-7V |
| Static | DShKM • RBS-70 |
| (Parenthesis) denote variants. Operation Arrowhead | Army of the Czech Republic | |