Interested to see what will be released about the upcoming Meteor MLU, so far it seems focused on ECCM and DL improvements.
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Hard because the Meteor is a small amount closer to the camera, but you can see the fin span difference.
However F-35 clipped Meteor might be sad;
but yeah Full Fin is big (I don’t think your display model has the production fins they look smaller than this live missile, could be camera angle though);
It’s… beautiful.
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You know I agree that meteor should be very maneuverable, it also probably uses dual plane maneuvering. However dual plane is not implemented in-game and Gaijin will probably conclude that meteor is not very maneuverable. Just look at CAMM for instance
It uses BTT (bank-to-turn) for fly out and midcourse then STT(skid-to-turn) for terminal.
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No, it just means that the Meteor can do a 180° in an undefined time and still has much kinetic energy due to its long motor burn and ability to throttle.
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This.
But also it has two way datalink and the launching aircrafts have MIDS, so a wing man could launch your Meteor at a target behind you. This requires a removal of launch restrictions.
Does it? My take is it just shows launch range
The title of the image is “No Escape Zone Comparison”. So I would say the areas are the range where the missile has enough kinetic energy to hit most of the expected targets with a high probability.
NEZ doesn’t mean you can fire the missile in whatever direction you want within that zone and it will be able to do a 180° turn and hit the target.
The target is in the aircraft in the middle of the shaded diagram and if you fire the missile towards the target from the edge of the diagram the target will not be able to kinematically defeat the missile using an, in this case unspecified. manoeuvre. Nothing in that diagram means “Meteor can do a 180°”
Can’t forget AESA seeker
Is that confirmed?
From primary sources no, secondary sources did state that Meteor MLU would use a derivative of MICA NG EM seeker and that is confirmed to be AESA by MBDA.
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Interesting stuff. A (very) long ways away from any possible implementation of that here, though. I think we’d probably cap it at just the ‘base’ Meteor for simplicity sake lol.
Moving on, it’d be interesting to see if this “50% increase in performance over the AIM-120C-5” the AIM-120D apparently is capable of is reflected in-game. I’m sure it will, or at least surpass the current performance of the AIM-120C-5 by a decent margin. The fact things like RAAF F/A-18F gets 12 of those (and maybe USA’s E variant? iirc someone confirmed it; some other unknown and new US jet will receive it as well) will be annoying lol.
Huh, I interpreted this picture as the NEZ around the firing plane and not the target plane…
Yes because they will nuke the missile to the ground