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
The ELVO Kentaurus was an armoured infantry fighting vehicle made by Greece but sadly it never went into service because of economical issues. I recommend you checking out the wiki about it
I’m sorry, but if the argument is always “some missile is significantly more advanced than that other missile”, then what of R-27ER/T? That missile is significantly more advanced than AIM-7M/P, and if you try to claim they are not… lol and lmao even (significantly faster, longer range, more G-pull, larger explosive mass). Besides that, there is no respective missile to R-27ET currently in game, non.
then name a compareable missile to it IRL
ASRAAM, using CAMM data in Statshark, it outperforms 27ET in multiple scenarions (speed cap removed)
and how is a missile that is ~25 years newer and has way better IRCCM compareable?
the ASRAAM is litterally using different seeker tech
by that logic there is also already a counterpart for the r-27er and that would be the AMRAAM
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fair, i skipped the comparable part
Point is there isn’t comparable missile to R-27ET, so why is it in the game and why is “there isn’t comparable missile to this missile” even an argument here?