If we truly gets a working AESA with accurate performance, HMD should be extremely reliable to lock close range, so hopefully this point should be void.
Personally I don’t think I’d even mount a Magic 2 on my Rafale unless it’s after a refueling in endgame because I’m anticipating a 1v1. I manage with 6 R77 / 5 R77 + 1 ET on the Mig29SMT just fine and they’re worse than the MICA in pretty much everything.
It would be a different story if we got a 9M or something equivalent, because they have a niche use case the Magic / R73 doesn’t cover.
Really hope it isn’t. 6 would be fine if they fixed them. Now we’re just going to have to deal with them doing nothing because now we’ve plenty if they get added.
Like @Fluffy_Bucketles I would much prefer that they correct the flight model of the Mica rather than putting missiles that do not correspond to the realistic payload.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I did a test flight this month and it seemed to me that the maximum speed achievable at high altitude was the same with or without the cans, which doesn’t make much sense.
