thats a 9P, thats not the same as 9J, the ability to radar slave it makes it able to actualy be shot in front aspect
the AIM-9P is literally one to one with the AIM-9J with the sole addition of radar slaving.
radar slaving does not magically grant a missile the ability to become all-aspect. kindly rewatch the video and notice my radar is turned off.
for reference these bombers are so ungodly hot you can also get a side aspect lock on the Tu-95 from over 6 kilometers away with the redtop.
bro got the premium 9P sidewinders
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that’s what the P stands for
no but seriously, the Tu-95 and B-52 have a problem. atleast with the Yak-38 you have to be within 1.1km to fire a frontal sidewinder and with the F-106 you have to be within 2km with a redtop, but with the B-52 and Tu-95 you can fire a sidewinder from 2 to 3 kilometers all-aspect and a redtop from nearly 8 kilometers.
well I recall some genius made it that during the nuclear thunder event, IR seekers could pick up Tu-95 from 80km.
so yea i believe they might have slight modeling issues.
hot damn what the fuck
“tee-hee” - gaijin intern that have set the value
gaijin intern should set the MiG-23’s wingrip speed to 500km/h IAS
I wouldn’t necessarily blame the intern. The tu-95m has a few lines of code in the flight model file that i suppose were only added after the bug report
“engineInfraRedBrightnessAspectMultFront”: 0.00002,
“engineInfraRedBrightnessAspectMultSide”: 0.0018,
“engineInfraRedBrightnessAspectMultRear”: 0.0275,
Since they are only shared with the F117, but if you can still get a strictly rear aspect missile to lock 4km ahead of a target with 0,002% of brightness it would have by default, then the real problem is the way the values are calculated by default. Especially since by definition, rear aspect missiles work on the 2-2.5 μm wavelength and thus need a direct line of sight to the engine’s exhaust pipe (or to the diamond shock patterns from the afterburner, which the tu-95m doesn’t have) to work. This means that, for example, it should be physically impossible to get a rear aspect missile to lock from above as the exhausts are hidden beneath the wing, and you should need to be at least 30º below the nose to at least get a chance to get a lock from the front, regardless of distance. All aspect missiles should have a much easier time since they are detecting the much larger exhaust plume, with the only real blindspot being directly in front, above the nose.
i feel like even that wouldn’t change anything. Majority of the aircraft at those BRs prefer their guns over their missiles.