F/A-18E Block 3 missile
What?
Sorry, meant to add to that, it’s the only aircraft that can use that weapon. So yeah USAF doesn’t use it.
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what about the raptor
At this point, I’d rather have Gaijin just make a modification that turns the current F/A-18E into a block 3 because having to grind for another super-fatty is just not gonna do it for me brother.
with the addition of modern ships for better self defense in nuclear thudner, gaijin added the sm-6 to be used by these ships, i deleted the booster stage and corrected the initial mass to be 830,074kg (source)
"174b" compared to fakour
launch conditions: 160km range, 10km alt, mach 1.2 for firing plane and around mach 1 for targeted plane
i also changed the 174b loft to be the same of the fakour
sm-6 compared to buk
conditions: target was about 90km away, mach 1.2 and 10km alt
if they directly converted the sm-6 to aim-174b, the length would be incorrect (4.85m now instead of 5.03m), so maybe the missile isn’t fully ready yet
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Kinda disappointed by acceleration but other than that, seems really good
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even better than PL-15 seeker, makes sense with the larger antenna diameter allowing for a much tighter beam compared to baseline AIM-120A. its also based on the C-7, which did get a seeker upgrade iirc
might need tweak since the main motor of the missile (not booster) is dual thrust. may also need further FM changes for air launch, like AIM-120 treatment
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What band is band 9 again?
Also the receiver RCS is set to 5 vs micas 2 what does this entail?
in some ways, inferior in other ways
in what ways?
Theoretically the only thing that does is decrease the range slightly compared with a range you can expect on a target at 2m^2. If it’s 50km lock range at 5m^2 it should be like 43km for 2m^2, just making it up off the top of my head.
For in-game purposes, allegedly, and I have no proof of this, radars set to a lower RCS is capable of better detection/tracking and harder to decoy while radars with higher RCS to use as a baseline with range has a harder time.
Like the PL-15 has 600 deg/s track rate compared to the SM-2’s seeker having a regular 60 deg/s and also PL-15 has no IOG due to GPS.
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i lowkey dont know what a 600°/s track rate would achieve over 60°/s afaik ingame modeling goes
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my guess would be quicker relock when the missile seeker decides to use angle-gating to ignore chaff?
mayhaps i wouldnt know
SM-6 also have GPS.
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I forgot that the SM-6 has surface attack capabilities which would mean GPS.
If I’m not mistaken, that just means that it had the option to use GPS as a future option, not that it had it before due to the phrase “growth allocation”.