Gio, in regards to spotting foot soldiers, the only real way for them to be spotted is by shooting at said vehicle Ai are in, ie a tank or hind, the way I have found to spot is you just have to spam right mous button over a certain area, once you get that square identification box, then Ai get their location and you track them from their. You are correct on it being a huge recon advantage.
im sorry to say but I think, your example #1 is semi false, as most players name check the vehicles they see, be it in a helicopter, tank, car ect. No one really drives by and dismiss them.
#2 isn’t quite right either, Ai don’t spot immediately unless shot at, most of the time, players have to spam target, ie I spam spot when we have snipers within the hills of CPA, I just use Ai to track them, then I release a barrage of rockets.
but #3 is corrrect, Ai placed in that manner can be used to entrap them within their spawn, but far as I have known, no one really places vehicles near indies spawn, far as it goes, routine patrols and tracking indies is as far as it goes.
i should also note, with Opfor vehicles like the Su-27/34, you NEED to have a gunner, or things like the AA/AGMS won’t work, you can’t manual fire the missiles and use targeting systems, the TAB keys interferes with the locking system, I don’t know if their is a secondary targeting system but the only way to counter that is using ai. If removal of the Ai happens, you would need to have a either some vehicles removed, or have some of the other faction vehicles in place of them, or have a rule in place to ensure their is enough people on for war instead of just having higher up agree to war ect.