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.
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):
