i would honestly be happy if they just at least give the AAM-4 2 or 1.5 seconds more burn time. rn it reallly realllly lacks longer than 7km at low alt and 22km at high alt cant even get a target
i fr was thinking of the same thing. theres no point of adding it if they dont "know enough’’ information of something. ik japan keep their weapons very hidden but still those info we give them is a good enough proof
That’s not a good policy though, just because there’s not enough information by Gaijin, doesn’t mean there isn’t enough information within the communities that is willing to bug report things.
Here’s the catch that were dealing with. We provide the “good” enough information and it gets ignored for not fulfilling their criteria of valid sources.
Everything states that the AAM-4s have as much energy and range as at least the AIM-7s that the JASDF had used prior, but all sources we provided were denied as “not sufficient info” or “doesn’t have exact numbers”. If it requires any bit of inferring the stats, even if based on a known metric like the range of the AIM-120-C5, or missile mass, they will still deny it because there isn’t a concrete number for them to input.
A simple fix they could but also won’t do is to set it as the closest known number either like 100 km for the C5 because its “historically inaccurate”.
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its also possible that real stats might be more than the what the public info says. usually public info have high chances of being less then what the real classified info have too
theres a guy who found out that the AAM-4 has a copy and paste thrust from the MICA. i didnt know about it till now, no wonder its so bad
the AAM-4 to them is a joke
its been known since about day 2 of the dev server by the more in depth players. You would notice that a launch at about 10km would fail to reach the target if they are doing anything but flying a head on due to how much energy the missile loses.
Also, I have seen videos of the AAM-4s doing a 180 like a less cracked out R73 to connect with the targets thanks to its much lower inertia. As it stand with dev server stats, it is very much an AAM-3 that’s radar guided compared to other mid range missiles that actually can engage past 10 km.
Gaijin really did take an engine and wheels off of a supercar and then put it on a semi-truck.
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Please make bug report. I wanna dunk on American F-15s in my glorious Japanese F-15
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Nothing has changed, reports have been made but they have been rejected.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/Aez83CMONLu0
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/DrXP5HPtwz0f
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Did anyone get the datamine on AAM-4s?
Statcard makes it identical to the AIM-120A but a higher G limit and higher weight
From testing it in test flight, it seems about the same. AIM-120A still hits the target before AAM-4 by a few seconds and that’s under 13 kms.
They really did just launch the update with AAM-4 still being WIP.
Don’t tell me they actually released a Sparrow sized missile with copied MICA stats
Unfortunately it does look like it.
Nice, I can’t wait for months of scraping at shreds of sources and bickering at Gaijin while they maintain radio silence for the next few months or forever and glossing over that this never happened when the AAM-4B is the new kid on the block.
Us in a nutshell: “So, where did you extrapolate information of the AAM-4 with what little sources were available? How do you know that it’s a slower AIM-120A?”
Gaijin devs in the meeting room reading this thread (probably):
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I wouldn’t even mind if they just copy pasted the AIM-120A, but instead they did the worst thing they could.
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I wonder just how little research they actually did… They could’ve gotten so close had they just copied the AIM-7 motor
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proceeds to copy the motor of that japanese ww2 guided missile
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