7Ps are busted currently. They’re as good as 120As if not better, and at 12.7???
Why must I face them at 12.3 in my F-16A with ONLY 9Ls?
Either decompress the BRs, or stop the matchmaker from sending Heater Only Aircraft into matches with ARH/SARH missiles. It’s hard enough grinding 12.0-13.0 without getting uptiered, but on the F-16A and other aircraft at these BRs, it’s ridiculously difficult to compete.
up close sure but dont have anywhere close to the reach.
they are also on the hornet which is a brilliant platform overall.
do think the premium hornets should be 13.0 with 9M but from using the 12.3 hornet its not really the 7p instead of 7f that makes it better as the missiles act pretty much the same bar datalink, its just having two more sparrows.
compression
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I say either remove DL from 7P, or split it into Block I and Block II.
Block II on 18C Late and 18E/F whatever 13.7 and up
Block I, (SARH-IOG only) on 18A 13.0 and up
thats literally all it has going for it over the other aim7s at the BR
so make it a 7F?
7M doesn’t have IOG or lofting.
7P(Bl2 ONLY) has DL
Bro, just sparrow roll them.
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IOG alone makes relatively little difference for air to air missiles as its very easy to nullify, by literally changing flight path at all
and the aim7P also doesnt have actual lofting
Not in game, but MH and P do IRL.
Apparently the meta is to launch as close as possible, giving very little time to “Sparrow Roll”
I know it’s a massive skill issue, but jeez there’s no universe in which they perform so well at close range.
its the most effective way to use the missiles if you want to get a kill with each of them, but its a very stupid way to use them if you want to survive, its basically the same as full commit head-on-ing everyone you see at 5.0
then find a source and make a bug report
I don’t want them to be any better, why would I bug report it lmao?
head on ive found they are basically a garanteed kill from 5km if both parties are supersonic with not much difference in range for side aspect, rear aspect you want to be quite close or it runs out of energy
You’ll get better in time, just keep low to multipath and force them into dogfights, you can run down F-18’s that try to run in the F-16 and AIM-9L’s can be quite difficult to deal with when launched reasonably close rear aspects.
thats just pure bad faith
not my problem do what you want
but the aim7p we have already basically is the block 2 or whatever
and the premium hornets are the only things that get it at a BR where its worth taking
https://forum.dcs.world/topic/326136-the-aim-7-sparrow-missile-technology-history-and-performance/
Source / References / Material / Data.
Multiple text-based sources included.
only secondary or no longer existent ones
To be expected, the last AIM/RIM-7 was produced 20 years ago.
okay? theres sources on much older weapons than that