I am sure they can model it like some of the more maneuverable SAM’s in-game that should work very similarly. The VT-1 works under a similar principle.
The difference is, instead of accounting for a big shift in the center of gravity pre and post-burn, the VT-1 style missile simply moves the propellant section to the middle of the missile to make for a much smaller shift.
The ASRAAM keeps the motor section ahead of only the control actuator section.
To better explain some of my thoughts on how this missile maneuvers I made this paint image;
Looking at the missile as though it is a lever and the center of gravity is the fulcrum, it is aided not only by the torquing moment of the fins, but the additional body lift on the opposite end of the fulcrum. Two moments working together like this to pivot the missile around its’ own center of mass allow for a very tight turn radius.
Similar to the F-16, the tail section can in some circumstances also aid to the overall lift. with some AoA, the missile can rely on the fins to provide some amount of lift as it is countering the pitching moment of the nose rather than attempting to counter gravity. Just remember, to pitch nose down it needs to add positive lift in an unstable configuration. With a stable configuration it would need to push nose up, countering gravity with what is considered “negative lift”.
Which is why they simply did not model it for aircraft, all aircraft in-game are statically stable. They have not updated their instructor or FM to handle it yet.
I wish we had more info on ASRAAM like motor burn time and thrust. Because reading up what scraps of info I’ve managed find its flight performance sounds kinda insane.
Only thing I’ve managed to find is it’s a Remus motor of some sort. And going by the Australian document it has 70% more propellant per unit length compared the 9X motor. @Flame2512 do you have anything on the motor?
The meme will be how gaijin is going to nerf it by heavily limiting its all aspect capabilities. So you won’t be really able to use it for what it was designed.
@oppsijustkilledu@MiG_23M I’ve come across all sorts of bits and pieces from ASRAAM’s development over the years. I’ll do a proper reply when I have time.
Here’s a quick one line answer for now:
As I’m sure you know ASRAAM started as a UK / Germany / US project (with a few other countries at various points also). The nations all placed a high importance on high average velocity. The logic of the day could basically be summed up as “IR missiles have (or soon will have) advanced to a point where if two aircraft enter a dogfight both will probably end up dead to each other’s missiles. Therefore the best approach is to make sure your missile hits him before he is within range to fire his missile.”
That’s just going off the cross sectional area being 70% larger than the AIM-9.
As you can see, UK gov said “The Brimstone was one of three weapons upgrades fitted onto the Typhoon last month under ‘Project Centurion’”.
article is from 2019, so it will be at least T3.
And we will clearly see the 3rd tranche no earlier than the summer patch of 2025(and most likely it will appear in December 2025)
I just want to use Brimstone from a normal supersonic platform :(
Were the ITA/BRI Typhoons the only ones to use Pirate IRST?
Been looking through photos of German ones, and could only find 1 photo with the newest Typhoon from Germany having it.
If it doesn’t have Pirate IRST, would it have another form or none at all?
