This definitely sounds like you’re correct on that one, good point
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not quite a meteor then
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ITA could be. EF-2000 only with IRIS-T, Typhoon FGR.4 with ASRAAM and F-2000A with both.
Well, wikipedia says Italy doesn’t operate the ASRAAM
Why would they get it if Germany doesn’t?
IRIS-T can’t be that broken in WT right? I remember someone saying R-73 has slightly better low speed thrust vector control than the IRIS-T, so it wouldn’t be much different right?
It can still be flared (maybe re-implementation of flares) and can be kinematically defeated. And Gaijin probably wont model the RWR slaving 360 degree launch, like how they didnt do the towed decoy.
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dont know about the R73 better TVC
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R-73 M2.4 60G
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IRIS-T M3 and is said to have double the G load as the R-73 by its producer.
So that would be 120G at the same speed.
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What it has though is that of the rail it dosnt use its full boost to have a smaller turning radius for targets behind the plane.
The seeker is another beast that is said to be nearly unflarable.
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Also I think a bug report on the slats need to be made. They dont deploy enough or often enough.
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There is a photo of it.
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They should deploy above 17 AoA, in game? no idea
My God. The radar, the radar in this thing straight up doesn’t work…
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Based on the rendering you can see that the mid section stabilising fins have been removed and the aft fins have been clipped further. This will greatly reduce drag on a misisle that is already drag optimised, but also means the misisle now heavily relies on body lift for manuvering, meaning the guidance package has been heavily upgraded to ensure a stable, optimised flight.
The rocket motor is about 15% larger, which is just a straight upgrade.
Modern advancements in propellant can probably attribute another 5% increase in thrust and there is the potential to have a variable exhaust nozzle (without ram air) to further optimise thrust at high altitude.
The weight has probably increased slightly.
This is assuming that the misisle is just a straight upgrade of the AIM120, where initial reports of the aim260 reported having two stages.
The meteor is a missile that could be added tk the game, right now if gaijin wanted to. There is just no reliable info on the aim260.
as long as RAMJET is active, you can’t even dream of 30G
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Why’s that?
Ramjets have limited effectiveness at high AOA.
BBCRF seems to think this means the missile cannot perform high G manuvers when the ramjet is active, limiting its high off boresight capability and thus making it a useless colonial/british design of a weapon.
In reality, the missile is not intended to be used this way, as we have the ASRAAM for that, but also the extremely powerful boost motor is more than sufficient to get the missile to manuver up to its G limit off the rail.
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RAMJET has strong limitations on the angles of attack and glide, given that the meteor rocket has only 2 air intakes, and not 4, the situation is even worse.
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That’s why the Meteor performs a “bank-to-turn” maneuver when turning, instead of the usual “skid-to-turn” like non-ramjet missiles do. Like a fighter aircraft the Meteor rolls into a position where the air intakes aren’t covered by the missile body when turning so the air flows unobstructed. It takes longer to initate a turn but the airflow isn’t hindered while turning.
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However, such a maneuver consumes a lot of energy.
Rolling a cylindrical airframe costs much less energy than you think (it’s not a plane with wings) and the missile only does it in the terminal phase of the approach where it starts to matter and if the target is heavily manouvering (so the missile has to pull high G-Forces). At Mach >4 you reach a 10 km target in less than 7,5 seconds. Not much time for a plane to do any maneuvering… Actually not even enough to do two changes of direction.
Fun-Fact: Tell the MiG-23 in game that rolling costs much energy. That plane actually accelerates faster while rolling :D
A rocket is not only a cylinder, but also a wing, rudders and air intakes.