The 5b ?
Yes, the coloring of the seekerhead is incorrect.
Have they fixed PL8 yet? Haven’t bothered with checking.
Anyone have anything on PL-12 seeker? Except from the 9B1348 for early batch but what are the later full domestic seekers’ stats?
I think you’re confusing it with the pl-8
Yeah think he meant PL-8B and PL8. The transparent vs white seeker.
No, I know that the PL-8 is modeled as a PL-8B. The PL-5B has a seeker which for some reason magically changes in opaqueness depending on lighting.
Not yet and they think they can’t for some reason, every time it is brought up it’s the same “muh dokuments” Even wen that is not possible in this scenario.
PL12 has never used 9B1348，PL12 has always used 9B1103M
What documents, u can see it. The thing has been passed, but they just can’t be bothered in this case.
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Isn’t that the supposed to be R27EA/EM seeker, also R37z seeker rather than R-77’s one which PL12 used?
PL12 uses the guide head of R77-1 instead of R77
happens to some extent with the magic 2 and pl-8b, pl-5b’s model is nearly entirely incorrect on the other hand
Thats a thing that all small IR missiles have in game.
As I understand, China didn’t buy any R-77-1 until Su35s came, and that the 9B1103 were only purchased from Ukraine. R-77-1 only entered service in 2015, so by logic it wouldn’t be using R-77-1 seeker as post 2010(ish) PL-12 was fully domestic. I saw stuff that suggested at least initially R-77 seeker was used.
9B1103MThe guide head is jointly developed by the Agate Research Institute of China and Russia, with partial funding provided by China and technology provided by Russia. Therefore, the service life of R77-1 will not affect the use of 9B1103M guide head in PL12
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Doubt that its fake since we had access to does document a while ago and other sources stating that the PL8B was fully domestically build
They changed seeker and gave it a better motor with more thrust alongside a longer burn time on the sustainer
Ive heard somewhere that they manage to reduce its drag by changing the material of the main body but idk a lot about that
Rn the motor on the pl8b is the same impulse as the python 3 but with a longer burn time
Everything I’ve seen on that motor seems to have came from papers talking about a proposed motor for the pl8, not that it actually has it
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It’s a proposal written by a student. A very well written one but a proposal nonetheless.
But the 9B1103M wasn’t developed in 2003, Agat only had 9B1348 as a finished product cause 9B1103’s initial designated missile was R37 and by 1999 the development for R37 was halted, and not restarted until 2006, so R77’s 9B1348 would have been the only available seeker Russia was able to provide with confidence. Also I think China never acquired 9B1103 from Russia but a much earlier version from Ukraine.