Another factor about the Meteor is that it’s throttleable ramjet means it will be able to control it’s energy over said range, unlike current missiles it will be able to manoeuvre while in the terminal phase, making it nearly impossible to dodge
Wait. What? Source dude)
If my memory serves me right, the MBDA Meteor should fly 200 km with a good energy reserve.
Meteor’s primary feature is not some excessively long range thats mostly bogus anyways (especially on single stage missiles like r-37, pl-15 or phoenix) but the high PK
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I am more interested in seeing the new or upgraded meteor missile that is supposedly under development. But that will probably take time.
that high PK won’t be reflected in game if the seeker isn’t modelled right
and considering how current fox3 seeker are modelled i’m not too optimistic
even without a later seeker activation it would have improved PK
How do you know about this? Can I have the source?
FYI you need to click the post, as the images don’t appear to load from a quote when hidden behind spoiler tags.
Can you explain this in more detail? I don’t understand this drawing.
The Meteors No Escape Range is the 3x larger than an AMRAAM, this means the typical range for a non manoeuvring for AMRAAM is around the same as the NEZ for Meteor.
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So what? This doesn’t mean that the R-37M and PL-15 can’t fly 300 km
straight line maybe, but NEZ says manoverability,
He is speaking about effective range i think. Its nice R-73M /PL15 might fly 300km, but they will hit nothing if they only fly straight
I can believe this.
R-37M*
This is true, but it does not change the fact that the R-37M can fly 300 km.
NEZ is important as up until that point target maneuver has a massive impact on pK. If your missile can hit out to 300km but the NEZ is only 100km then the target has 200km of distance where they can trash that missile.
You will never know about this, some sources claim that the R-37M recently shot down a MiG-29 from a distance of 213 km
(Sorry if I offended anyone here)
nr1, most things russians seem to give out of the recent conflict are vastly overestimated or blatantly wrong
nr2, the god knows how old mig 29s with bad equipment
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I would like to know more about this.
I don’t doubt that possible at all, the MIG-29 is still rocking the SPO-15, its likely they didn’t even know they’d been fired on as such I doubt they’d have had made any effort to defend. Modern aircraft and even the Tornado F.3 back in 1987 can detect DL on their RWR, and take the necessary action to defend.
From the Tornado F.3 Tactics Manual and its RHWR threat table;
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would have to take that to direct message because that gets to political for here
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