I was under the impression it had some sort of unique counter-LDIRCM capability and this was why hypothetically the seeker was better technology-wise than ASRAAMs (though that doesn’t actually confirm which is the better seeker as technology generations is not the only factor in what makes a good seeker).
mica ir - 60gs
asraam - 50gs? i have no idea bout asraam
r-73 (all variants) - at least 60 gs
mica ir - at least >50gs
aim 9x - at least 50 gs
Sadly gaijin literally pretends to not be able to read the numerous sources that literally state it has LDIRCCM capability, IRIS-T report for LDIRCCM is accepted but on another report for SLM (same seeker) they said it’s actually just waiting for a dev to see it and reject it lmao.
And it wouldn’t even be an unique capability, 9X uses HOJ as LDIRCCM as well, i really don’t know about others tho.
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Iris t is supposed to be immune to ldircm in game but it’s not
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if a manufacturer says it’s immune to ldircm, should we take it at face value?
r-24t manual says its immune to lasers and has some sort of irccm, should we take that at face value? ofc not.
who knows how it works in the real world
looks like similar delay to 73, around .15 seconds
also smokey motor? damn
ofc bc you dont want the missile to hit the plane while doing a 180° turn
for some reason iris t doesn’t have a delay in game currently
Maybe the right thing would’ve been to not make the LDIRCM on the new helis literal force fields then?
At least add seeker shutoff when LDIRCM is detected as a rudimentary form of LDIRCCM.
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IMO it shouldnt even matter cause well… iog and datalink exists so it should go through either way.
the way gaijin modeled it is dumb i agree with that
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bc gaijin
dosent really matter, you will only know that the missile will hit you dosent mean you are able to dodge it when you see the smoke
also most if not all modern fighters have a MAW so a missile being smokless dosent matter as much
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Unusual is the seeker: Modern IR-guided weapons, such as the AIM-9X or ASRAAM, use focal plane arrays (FPAs) to identify targets through imaging infrared. The 128×128-pixel detector continuously locks onto the object, which makes it vulnerable to dazzling lasers currently under development.
In contrast, the IRIS-T combines an FPA with mechanical scanning. A mirror mechanically sweeps across the seeker’s field of view, so that only a small portion of the image is visible to the detector at any given time.
The idea is essentially that IRIS Ts seeker only gets exposed to an LDIRCM for a fracture of a second due to the sweeping while other seekers get constant exposion
And when I launch 16 Iris t slm missiles all together on a mi28nm, not a single one hit. Crazy stuff
Magic russian forcefield is clearly superior to inferior western garbage, checkmate idiot /s
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meant irl. in game the implementation is dumb, it should be limited to only defending against as many missiles as there are turrets on the damn thing
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Ah yes sorry it’s my bad, I’ve never really looked at SRAAM and thought it was like 50+G in game seeing how crazily it turns (in every sense of the term).
I’m pretty certain the seeker of the IRIS-T being a 1D array of detectors compared to other missiles being 2D array has more to do with cost effectiveness rather than LDIRCM protection. For example, ASRAAM and MICA having much higher theoritical ranges would need better seekers to work at their full potential. IRIS-T is a much shorter range missile so it’s seeker probably has an even better range than its kinetic performances already.
If the seeker isn’t protected against those lasers, even with the scanning of the seeker, it would still be unable to see the target and get blinded by the LDIRCM when scanning it, so the missile will still likely miss even if the seeker isn’t completely fried by the time it reaches the target.
Around 25km
