Bet you didn’t know how the HELLDIVERS 2 SEAF SAM Sites work

SAM stands for Surface to Air Missile, and despite what the icon would have you believe, it ain't no microwave.

You can only find these bad boys on Automaton planets and they look like an ugly grey square on your map.

Your task is to activate it via the terminal.

Then, you wait for the launcher to rise out of the ground like a phoenix from the ashes.

Finally, activate the launcher subsystems and the SAM site will be online and ready to liberate!

Now, that SAM site is gonna try to shoot down Automaton dropships.

But here's the deal: it's got the range of my grandma's shotgun, just a couple hundred meters.

And since it can only fires one missile at a time it usually takes out a ship AFTER it’s dropped off reinforcements.

But every little bit counts in this war against the enemies of justice, freedom and sweet lady liberty.

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[ostrich]

Ya this needs a buff. Even the smallest SAMs have range measured in miles.

[slybrian]

It fires the missiles using Windows Nine.

[victorstr]

How come a portable rocket launcher shoots supersonic projectile but a SAM site shoots missile that has the speed of a bicycle?

Someone at the Ministry of science didn't do his job worthy of tax money.

[FMHikari]

Real life: up to 10km range

In Helldivers: less than 500m

Democracy really is cheap, huh.

[Moike]

So im not the only one who tought it was a microwave when i first saw this 🤣

[christianfoster]

They're also good at shooting down gunships.

[chrisestrada]

Everything is an ugly gray square on the map!!! 🤣

[jormungander_the_world_serpent]

bro thought he was slick with that dummy thic mech

[andewfustherd]

So…..there’s something very off putting about the SAM site having a short range

Whereas the damn artillery can hit anywhere on the map provided you call it in

You may have all of my what’s?!

[ClonedGamer]

One time I was doing one of the geologic survey missions and got a SAM site that was within range of the main objective. So all six dropships that got called got taken down and I only had to deal with a tank that managed to survive everything and a patrol that happened to wander past. Made the mission an absolute breeze.

[jimcetnar]

XP gain is literally the only benefit for liberating a SAM site. Ineffective during mission is an understatement

[gratuitouslurking]

Fun fact: These also show up on Illuminate missions as well now, to similar mixed results (illuminate UFOs are honestly only really vulnerable at the best of times so trusting these things to take down a squid wave is dicey.)

[alexi.]

I honestly didn’t know it was a SAM site, every time my friend and I would do a mission our comms would be “go hit the microwave bonus objective while I take out this nest” 😅

[johnermactavish]

“Can only be found on Automaton planets”
This aged like raw calamari sashimi.

[michaelchristidis]

It's crazy how the destroyers have got the technological capacity to send bombardments into accurate locations in mere seconds while orbiting onto the stratosphere of the planets and yet these SAM turrets cannot fire rockets to prevent a dropship that is 100 metres close to it fast enough

[TotalTirpitz]

HEY relevant again as they're also useful against the illuminate.
There they are mostly in the settlements, where they can provide some resbite from the street fighting.

With the location itself being somewhat fortified, and the range covering most of the nearby streets.

[IsfetSolaris]

So. In 2024, we have the PATRIOT system with PAC-3 MSE. It has a range of 120km, can engage 4 targets at once, and the missiles travel at mach 5 declassified.

In Helldivers 2, set in 2084, our best SAM system has about a 500 meter range, can only engage one target at a time, and the missiles travel slightly faster than sprinting speed.

[Rockstar-vsnb]

I think these should get a map wide coverage buff. Maybe they could add an anti-air radar where you have to wait for the tower to raise. It would still become less effective the further away the SAM site is but at least it would do more. They would also need to make it a guarantee that when it hits the dropship goes down.

[TheGameInQuestion]

Bro sounds like Mr. Torgue's less crazy, but still loud cousin. Keep up the good work. Managed Democracy won't spread itself and videos like these help make Helldivers even more effective in the field.