I just use stealth belts, the HE blows things apart.
But yeah, Vs something like Su-25s, they can be a lack luster
Need to fly lower
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while waiting for the red top range buff I accidentally made a missile formation with a random lightning player, this made me laugh so hard that I forgot to play
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range buff? never gonna happen. also, as i assume your a fellow British enjoyer, have they done anything to the red tops in the last month or so. been away for a while and it feels as if they removed their ability to track off the rails. makes them feel more like fire streaks with how long it takes for them to start tracking.
Currently has an 0.6s guidance delay and tracks at 12 deg/s, not sure if that’s changed at some point tho
just feels like they don’t want to turn until they’ve already flown by the enemy. especially not nice considering you have to be within 0.8km for you to actually hit someone going at a leasuraly pace away from you.
The motor weighs ~60kg (over half the weight of the rest of the missile) so the extra weight plus the time it takes to get up to speed might explain why it struggles to pull at first?
Well, the range buff happened lol
Its however a mixed bag:
- Drag coefficent almost halfed, so much slower decelleration and better range.
- G pull down from 16G to 12G, this seems pretty unrealistic, lets hope its an error.
- Booster force nerfed a bit.
- totally new guidance tables
Basically a totally new missile FM, I guess we will have to see how it performs on the dev server
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Unfortunately it’s what the manual says.
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Just have to wait and see if it gets all-aspect (or really good side aspect at hte very least)
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Like the AIM-9D/G/H
Yeah…
You can already check it out in a test flight, changes often go live there earlier, it’s confirmed by the larger gimbal limit, the missile does feel different but the lowered booster force makes it feel more sluggish at high alt
Not sure if they are on that yet. Still lacking a bit in terms of range
I’ve never heard that changes go live earlier on the test flights, that would be pretty confusing for people trying to bug report etc…
Are you sure you aren’t thinking of the dev server?
Damn thats a shame, I had heard they were reasonably manuverable irl, i guess not
The radar looks a little different. So maybe… not sure
Yes I noticed it a few months back when they increased the max time without lock for some missiles
If it is, then Red Tops are still missing about 1km of range I think. Firing at a slow moving Mig-15 from a lightning doing Mach 1.1 at a range of 2km and it still fell short. I think it should have hit from 3km away