Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-179.179.120.33-20150204164152/@comment-25467429-20150206040601

What other plane would have it anyway? It's not as though they can just add it to an existing plane as the stand now - assuming we're talking about going the SP weapon route. Adding it as a weapon only for the XFA-27 does make some sense int hat regard, because beyond that you would have to introduce a special variant of some plane. I doubt they'd make Mobius 1 even more top-tiered than it will already be by adding soemthng like that to it, and from there you're basically leaving it up for imagination for PA to create a variant of some other plane (an F-15 variant, an X-02 variant, etc) just to add this weapon to it.

Alternatively, the MIRV I believe was an SP weapon on the R-101. It isn't quite like the SMBS, but has a somewhat similar concept (one missile that launchs four smaller missles, though all on one target). It is somewhat feasible that you would trump adding the MIRV and go with something like the SMBS instead.

I will add my preference would certainly be for the SMBS not to be an SP weapon because then it's just too much like a 4AAM with tweaked stats that you happen to also be able to aim at ground targets. Or, looking at it another way, it would essentially be an ADMM at a third of the capacity, which even if you somewhat nerf the ADMM would probably place the two too close in capabilities. There is a thing as too much parity. Best to avoid the issue by balancing the SMBS against only standard missles, rather than navigate a balance amongst 4AAMs, 6AAMs, 4AGMs, and the ADMM, possibly ODMM, specifically, the rest of the SP weapons in general.