Despite slaving the missile to my radar and him getting within 1.5km I never get a real lock. I have to assume he was cutting his throttle or engine or something to prevent a lock. Does gaijin think all you have to do to fool a Mistral irl is to turn your engine off?
Looks like seeker shut off. Maybe wait 30secs so he can waste all his flares
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Not a problem of the seeker shutting off. I fired once or twice and cycled it once. It takes 1 second to cycle. If you mean IRCCM, the missiles that use shutoff irccm dont do that on the rail, you can still fire.
pre-flare was causing your missile seeker to shut-off
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It does.
The shut off could expire after 3secs (First firing), or at a frame when no flares are in sight (Second firing).
And as he pops flares right after firing, the seeker shuts off again, as seen at the sudden move to the right at first firing. Second one is too late for the 1km + without lead.
It doesn’t on planes, why does it do it here? You know I’m not referring to the missiles I fired right
only a handful of missiles on jets use tracking suspension IRCCM (9M, AAM-3) and I’m pretty sure it works the same way
yes and I am referring to those. I am not forced to stare at an enemy jet just because they are preflaring in any jet that uses 9M or AAM3. You can launch, it just probably won’t hit. I could not launch the mistral above
idk
I’m in game if you wanna do a quick test
No. They all perform like in the vid, shutting off on the rail. I don’t call that a successful launch.