AIM-120B isn’t smokeless (correct if wrong), and only got reduced smoke motors with the late AIM-120C variants.
Looking at the source provided for the accepted report, the motor isnt changed until Aim-120C7 and the motor used prior to that is reduced smoke.
Yeah, that one with reduced smoke is called smokeless.
I mean, you can see a guy in the F15 launching AIM120 (dunno, A or B) and there comes “no smoke” (for all intents and purposes) in the back.
Doesn’t say the AIM-120B has a smokeless motor.
bro it says amraam has smokeless motor in context of multiple variants including B
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It doesn’t say the AIM-120B has a smokeless motor.
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Even Alpha had smokeless motor. Pictures in my report are from 1980s and even preproduction test missiles had smokeless motor (check black-white painted one).
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because its talking collectively about all of the included variants in the document
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It would have said that the AIM-120B introduced a smokeless motor. Rather, it says it has electronic/compatibility improvements.
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it doesn’t say aim-120b introduced a smokeless motor because it didn’t. all of the variants included have it
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Don’t think the AIM-120A has a smokeless motor, but that’s from what I found-
it uses same propellant. feel free to send me whatever you found so we can dissect it.
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Generalizing doesn’t help the case, Gaijin won’t accept a document that says “The AIM-120 AMRAAM has a smokeless motor”. Rather, it is best to find a manual/declassified doc that explicitly states “The AIM-120B has a smokeless motor”.
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it was accepted bro
Send that bug report please. Did not expect that out of all the sources Gaijin accepts.
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It does, indeed. It was one of the features upon which Hughes got the contract.
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Likely not going anywhere, but that’s just assumption-
look at the date on paper and look at when aim-120b and c came. theyre talking about a smokeless motor even before those missiles were introduced
yeah, its accepted but often they dont care and ignore things for balance reasons. maybe frustrating but i feel like i dont want to deal with the bullshit of smokeless amraams even though i support the bug report lol
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