Confirmed with a dev, the only thing that matters for decoying an IR missile is the thrust to flare signature ratio.
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Do we know that ratio for the harrier?
Not specifically no, but the Harrier’s (all of them) gain the most thrust at lower speeds, so as you turn and flare you’re increasing in thrust and lowering the ratio between the two. This probably explains why it feels hard to flare an IR missile, as you’re probably already going pretty slow while defending.
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Just turn off the engine while you flare then
Understandable, when flaring in harrier fly straight
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I mean pretty much, keep your speed high and cut throttle as a last ditch effort.
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the 9M
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(For legal purposes, i am not responsible for any death or severe damage to your airframe resaulting in failiure of employing this tactic against InfraRed seeking missile).
(Employ against AIM-9M at your own risk)
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I was in the middle of writing
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See I wasn’t talking out of my arse
You didn’t mention thrust at all?
Maybe the fact that I couldn’t flare a damn AIM-9J could be a slight form of evidence lmao.
The Devs have now confirmed that each nozzle acting as an individual engine is not what’s going on. So no that’s clearly not evidence.
Doesn’t really make sense, there has been many occasions were I’ve decoyed missiles whilst stalled in mid air with my J-11A and the message I sent was semi-sarcastic.
Harrier’s (all of them) gain the most thrust at lower speeds
What do you mean by this? As in they have the most thrust in-game at lower speeds?
as you’re probably already going pretty slow while defending
I don’t consider 700km/h to 900km/h to be slow and that’s the speed I usually fly at, those are also the speeds I usually get a IR missile fired upon.
The thrust curve on the Harrier is such that the slower you’re flying the more thrust the engine produces.
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Compressor likes it slower.
So yeah the optimum way to flare away missiles other than the 9M is to fly in a straight line or turn off your engine and get shot down by guns.
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Genuine question here. (This may have been discussed previously, but i cannot find it)
How come the 2x Aim 9L/M pylons on the FA.2 SHAR cant take the BOL/LAU138 countermeasure pods?
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There is nothing specific in the manual that says it cannot be done, but there isn’t also anything that says it can be done either.
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