Just a matter of finding what works for you
It exists to be food for the Su-30SM2, AESA EFTs and Rafale(s).
Same as pretty much every other 14.0-14.3 plane currently in game (besides maybe the Gripen E).
I didn’t have huge issues with the non-AESA typhoon.
If anything, the AESA typhoon is hilariously strong as 90x30 is just… absurd. I have total situational awareness from above while the blind Su-30s with their 9 degree vertical can’t see me.
Non-AESA sits roughly even with everything else being an excellent airframe but quite frankly blind.
Shame you have 120s and 9ms and they have actual missiles that work.
The same thing the 14.0’s have been doing? Lmao what kind of question is that?
@Morvran @Gunjob
I think I know now what’s happening to the AIM-9M. It’s caused by a bugged seeker-shutoff IRCCM behavior. Currently the seeker should be deactivated if it registers a flare inside its FoV and only activate again until there is no flare inside its FoV anymore. But sometimes it activates for a fraction of a second even if it shouldn’t (because there’s still a flare inside its FoV or the target flares at this exact moment), causing it to lock solidly while instantly switching over to IOG without having any valid data (or exaggerated data like a too fast movement vector) as the lock couldn’t be held long enough to extrapolate the target movement data, causing the lock to drift into nowhere. In the latter case (target flares at the worst possible moment) it should just deactivate the seeker again without tracking a non-existent movement vector.
My guess is now, that this also happens while the missile is flying if seeker-shutoff is triggered quickly one after the other by a flaring target. This also explains why it shows “TRK” continuously in sensor view while turning away from the target. Or it tracks a ghost-target in that moment and IOG is never activated which would also be a possibility.
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Well it’a that, whilst I am functionally blind in the non AESA Typhoon. A lot of other jets were too.
But now the AESA typhoons can see me. The Rafales can, and could, see me. The Gripens can now see me AND the Sukhois can see me.
But I, as stated, have a 650 watt microwave from the 1960s bolted to my jet where there should have been a radar.
The Captor M experience has always been bad but now it is pretty friggin insufferable
Have you reasoned your way to that or did you see it happen in a replay? I ask because the replay option is easier for me to work with for the report side of things.
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I need some Meteors…
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Only 300k more RP…
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+1, I wonder, could the Meteor be mounted on the Double Pylon?
Probably not, AMRAAM is already bringing it close to the weight limit for the pylon as is. Meteor would be too heavy. Plus when IIR SRAAM’s turn up you’re going to need to decide if you want 2xIRIS-T or 2xASRAAM or 2xAMRAAM or single meteor on that pylon.
Depending on what state ASRAAM eventually turns up in I will likely run 5x Meteor (4x ejectors and one on a single pylon) and 4xASRAAM.
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Sad,
I do wonder, If the snail will gave the IRIS-T/ASRAAM to every EF or just one of them, would allow some criminal loaoduts
an Mix with
IRIS-T
ASRAAM
METEOR
AMRAAM
sounds very funny
4 Meteor, 3 ASRAAM and 3 IRIS T would be absolutely diabolical
You can observe the effect if you try to lock onto a flaring target. Even if there’s a flare inside the FoV it will most of the time lock but instantly drift off into nowhere with a red circle (and doesn’t ever stop doing so). Sensor view or the replay doesn’t show the lock-behavior AFAIK (or I didn’t find the option). The sensor view shows the missiles tracking cone drift into nowhere too while constantly showing “TRK”.
The problem is: If there’s a flare it should switch to IOG or if there’s no valid movement vector it shouldn’t move at all without a lock (doing “SRC”) instead of drifting the track way off target fast and for a long time as it’s currently doing.
It would be good to know if AAMs can be fitted to the inner pylons by then. Meteor 7x + ASRAAM 4x seems to be the closest to ideal. …10x AIM-120D?
What is the weight limit of that pylon? The Meteor is about 20-30 kg heavier (160-165 kg vs. 185-190 kg) AFAIK.
Meteor double pylons have been shown on renders for gripen e maritime, it’s slightly different compared to normal amraam double pylon
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I thought the weight limit of that mountpoint on the wing of the EF was meant.
Tbf, these are also clearly different pylons to the ones shown in that one 14-Missile render, so there could be multiple (tho that refer also only shows one meteor on the second outermost pylon)