Playing the F/A-18A is great with a PD radar, but the AIM-7Ms are doing horribly, even though enemies are barely doing anything. Still launching at 8km head-on makes the sparrow miss.
Do you launch with the lock being red? although I would expect full head ons to always have a full lock, if it isn’t red then the missile won’t have a lock and will go for IOG until it gets a lock or gives up and explodes prematurely
they’re just a mediocre fox-1. Haven’t had any issues with the F-18A recently
the radar lock is double red
they’re really mediocre missiles and not at all reliable I think the aim7p will be a big upgrade due to having iog and datalink but I’ve never used it. it’s completely normal for an aim7m to just fly in a random direction or just in a straight line I have no idea why but it’s been like that forever.
that being said, they’re not bad and are still somewhat reliable if slow just sometimes you have a dud and gotta launch 2