Best Radar-Guided Air-to-Air Missiles

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Guided missiles are crucial to modern jet aviation, with different types designed to counter various enemy aircraft. Not long ago, we discussed the best infrared-guided air-to-air missiles, and today it's time to focus on radar-guided missiles — those that lock on a target with the assistance of the aircraft’s radar system.

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lol I dont even use radar missiles cause I don’t know how to key bind it properly and effectively, wish I did know how to though

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I know how that works Im just on controller so I have limited keybind options that wont cause random stuff to happen

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Ah I get that

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simply attach a keyboard to your Xbox/PS

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Been a feature for both PS4 and Xbox One since forever.
More console players should do this.

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Bro im on controller and I have everything working fine.

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I saw the thing under development that said “1 new” and i got so excited for a second

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NGL, I am practically maining the Viggen right now, and I use the cone shape, but should I use the Square one?

Does one have an advantage over the other?

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Personally its simply clearer than cone shape and way easier to operate with manual radar controls

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It more of the preference, but square is bigger which helps with target acquisition (even if it suffer from being less accurate)

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It’s simple
MICA the best (especially for close range), right after that, PL12 which fly like an AIM120 at the beginning, far and turn great, and after that the rest Derby, Darter, R77 which are mid, you can fire them at the gimbal limit from 7-8km head on, they should hit, not guaranteed tho. AIM120 at the very end, you literally f****d up how this missile flies, rarely hitting >20G, while Mica does ~60G (50G max btw), It only goes far, nothing else, pretty useless right now.
Fix how the missile guidence work, missiles do more overload than they have in the stats, for example R27ET did +60G while it has max of 35G, and also, missiles do negative (-)G from time to time which is just hilarious.

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very true, mica just dominates in dogfights, especially with hmd its like a r73 that cant be flared

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Explain to me how the AIM-120 is better than the R-Farter. The R-Farter is the worst ARH missile in the game.

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Darter is better in most scenarios, good luck hitting high off bore shot with AIM120.
If someone is like 8-10km you ‘almost’ can’t fire at him if you’re flying >90 degrees in respect to him, with Darter it’s possible because unlike 120, it TURNS… if you’re like 80-90 degrees to a guy and ~8-10km Darter will ‘most likely’ hit it or even have chance to hit, unlike 120 which turns like a boat.

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and I’m not saying Darter/Farter is good, no. It’s mid, just like I said, but 120 is ‘a bit’ worse. 120 is only good if someone is far away, and that’s it. Closer someone gets, lower your chances to hit him

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Lol.

Good luck hitting HOBS with R-Farter. You’ve never even used an R-Farter, I’m curious as to why you think it’s good? Because it hits 60% of the time at a 5km or under? 0% of the time over 10 km?

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I didn’t use it on my account, what’s your point?

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Well, don’t shot it over 10km? 120 is also notch’able lmao