Can someone explain to me how I can shoot an Aim-120 C-5 and shoot an oncoming missile out of the sky but they won’t hit another plane? Gaijin, is it really THAT hard to make the game run properly? Help me make sense of it…I’m not looking for smart arse comments. Is anyone else having the same issue with Aim 120’s? It’s getting ridiculous…Is it only the US aircraft. Typhoons don’t seem to be having problems with their Aim 120’s…Seriously FIX THE STINKING GAME!!!
if i am not mistaken AIM 120 are currently worse Fox-3 in game
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Missiles don’t automatically hit their targets — you’re the one who determines the hit probability. Every missile and every aircraft in the game works that way. The closer you fire, the higher the hit chance, that’s all. The AIM-120C5 is a weak missile, but that isn’t the main reason for your complaint.
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**Besides that, because the American top-tier airframes are just dogshet as expected, in most cases you get stuck in 1.0–1.2 mach. So carrying C5s isn’t really necessary, since you can’t shoot farther than 25 km anyway (unless you just want to make their RWR scream for five minutes without ever hitting them). That’s why you should bring at least 4–6 AIM-120A/Bs for the more common situations, where the hit probability is much higher.
Ah thats why russian missles can be launched from bloody narnia and still hit, while my c5s cant even hit within 15km range
Well that is true for all American rank 8 jets (cannot say anything about f15e) however F-16c is an exception IMO which somehow can go very fast and also accelerate faster so it can gain its lost speed quit quickly.
There isn’t a single missile in the game that you can’t dodge if it’s fired from 15 km or more, as long as you notch correctly.
F16C and F15E are quiet ok in their own BR. Edit: F15C too, I forgot
And just 2 of them, Even the F-16ADF and F-15A are in an unacceptable state right now.
ehh this one i cant really agree with, its severely outclassed in every way from the 14.3s, and “but its 14.0” means nothing since out of the last 20 games ive palyed today in it, only one of them WASNT a 14.3 match. Its outsped, others have better missiles and more of them, and the radar is abysmal.
which brings me to another point, gaijin really needs to fix PESAs to fix alot of top tiers issues
When Up-tier. Yes
But at it own BR and when down-tier F15E work as expected. Although it’s much weaker than the Gripen E, at 14.0 we still have free-food F-18Cs, so there’s no need to worry too much about performance.
The F-16C should really be 13.3, but since 13.7 matchmaking is very good and often gets easy downtiers, I’m overlooking it for now.
Because C5 were overnerfed by Gaijin and are worse than A/B in War Thunder engagement. They struggle to accelerate fast enough and pull the G needed to hit an evading target. Missiles fly straight at you so are easy to intercept for the AIM-120C.
AIM-120B are better or similar at everything they do than C5 below 30km. The only thing C5 does better is having a little more speed at around and above 30km. But 30km shots are braindead easy to avoid. C5 needs to get MICA level seeker, which would be both historically accurate and make them an interesting choice alongside the B. Trading raw performance below 30km for deadlier seeker.
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