those wont be coming anytime soon imo. The current fox 3’s being added are being nutered hard already, if we cant even add AIM-120A’s with MPRF and reduced smoke motor, there’s no chance were seeing a properly modelled meteor anytime soon.
R-37M is the primary danger to ukrainian pilots in the skies over ukraine according to them, downplaying its capabilities is silly.
entirely different scenario. Russian jets have no contest aside from SAMs. they can approach from far away, at high altitude and speed. that is not possible in war thunder.
they’ve also stated that its mostly soft kills
The R-37 M is significantly superior to the meteor
What are the limitations?This is not an improved phoenix, but a completely different rocket
Why do you think that?
The range of destruction, the height of destruction, the warhead, the range of radar capture, maneuverability to some extent.
Manouverability? Just looking at the airframes Meteor should be way superior
And btw, the rest is also true for Phoenix. R-37 seems very similar in Concept and execution, a 500ish kg rocket in boost substain with a rather thick airframe for shooting down non manouvering targets like bombers, tankers or AWACS at extreme range
Do not evaluate the rocket only by its dimensions. I have written to some extent. Therefore, when the meteor’s engine is running, it will not be able to perform maneuvers with large angles of attack and glide
Nevertheless, the R-37M is capable of shooting down highly maneuverable targets
The limit isnt on angles of attack per se, but on rolling before turning to avoid starving the ramjet of air. So in midcourse, where manouverability matters the least. In terminal the missile should have enough energy to not require the ramjet.
The only exception is short range shots, but the R-37 would have issues there as well, after all its a heavy and draggy missile. Probably the reason why German Eurofighters are somewhat often seen with 4 Meteor, 2 AMRAAM (and 2 IRIS-T).
Just the angles of attack and slip.Which can cause disruption of work ramjet
Stereotype the rocket maneuvers efficiently
Just like gajin is saying stinger and mistral cant perform better then iglas i am gonna say the r37m cant perform better then phoenix because they are so similar
You cant prove anything manoverability wise.
Honestly you coming in here with stupid claims and no proves. Its a long range missle. But not necesarily manoverable
Probs more a cost thing, 1 meteor costs roughly 2 AMRAAM’s according to wiki. Likely also the reason we rarely if ever see more than 4 or maybe 6 meteors on a jet at once, and not more, like the aircraft very well could/should be able to carry.
Looks better than AMRAAM to me;
Also lines up with a yet unnamed Ramjet missile from a NA doc;
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Yes but without AMRAAM or ASRAAM there is no serious close range HOBS launch capability for EFT
Additionally, the Meteor is heavier and requires more specific launch conditions… will want to be dropped before enemy forces you to closer ranges.
Arguably the Meteor could be one of the best close range HOBS radar guided missiles modeled once it arrives into the game.
There’s several factors to consider.
Meteor’s seeker irl is derived from MICA EM’s seeker. MICA EM’s seeker has a report out showing guidance delay should be lowered to 0.15-0.20 according to videos that show runtime. If modeled, the Meteor should also adopt and incorporate these values once/if it arrives into the game. So already it will have this over other radar missiles.
Meteor’s motor is able to significantly output low thrust to extend burntime as well as reducing the radius of the turn.
Currently AIM-120 isn’t able to “loop around” in dogfights properly due to not having enough energy. With Meteor however, it would have a lower guidance delay as well as enough energy to properly come back around with IOG+Datalink and it’s own radar providing guidance.
Meteor requires initial booster to get it up to a minimum speed before ramjet works efficiently. This isn’t good if the missile turns too soon, wasting this energy… Especially from low speed standpoint. The missile will be scrapped.
The AIM-120’s with HOBS capability have an 8s boost lol
Again, the Meteor is not as good for any kind of WVR situation or merge over the other options available. I’m not saying you shouldn’t carry them, in fact you should carry as many as possible… But the other ordnance is far more useful for closer quarters flexibility.
I doubt this will be modeled in-game to be fair, allowing the Meteor to be used for dogfights at low thrust constantly looping around.
That all depends on the size of the booster: it’s specific impulse and DV which are unknown.
It is supposedly able to accelerate the missile by +2 mach in 2 seconds ~320m/s^2 acceleration atleast
Or I’ve interpreted it wrong and it’s able to reach mach 2 in 2 seconds from an unknown launch speed., most likely the former, bit that is still unconfirmed and quite unrealistic.
I have only seen videos of the first 0.5 seconds of a meteor launch, so it’s hard to confirm how long the booster is active for, but it is much much faster accelerating at the launch than the aim120 videos I’ve seen.
I’d be interesting in seeing some test examples in the games cdk of how effective this could be in HOBS situations compared to the aim120c5, using a low powered, long burning sustainer as an example with the high powered boost motor.
This isn’t true, we have speed over time sources that are somewhat reliable. It accelerates similar to the R-27ER initially, a hard maneuver will certainly harm the performance as the ramjet will be unable to reach appropriate speeds. Thus, turn radius will need to be large initially and the close-in performance practically nonexistent for any off-bore launches that exceed the capability of the current R-27ER.
Think of the close-in performance gap of MICA vs R-27ER, that’s sort of what we can expect… But the ER keeps going fine whereas the Meteor would choke if it couldn’t get up to speed.
Of course as DirectSupport said they might not properly model these limitations.
