The angle was a little funky, so might not have seen it legitimately
Replay:
https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/450134378171167533
2:40 ish
.clog if needed
2026_03_06_12_59_55__10980.clog (6.9 MB)
Clip incoming, give it a min
RWR =/= MAW, do you mean MAW?
Sorry, I meant that the MAW also sometimes straight up doesn’t work for some missiles and appended that something is weird with the RWR too. Wasn’t the best idea to mix these two statements in one post ^^
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IMO that should’ve been in coverage. I’ll play some games tonight get some clogs etc.
okay, my clog is attached if needed too.
Glad im not going totally crazy then :D
Its wierd, last time round, didn’t have the issue once, this time round, I am
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yeah, got no launch warning against a 7f and r40rd, got the clip if u would like it. Was in the tonka.
Hey, does anyone have a problem with activating missiles while in weapon selector? I had this happening to me a lot recently. Basically a missile refuses to activate it’s seeker, hence isn’t launching. It’s a bug and a very infuriating one at that. Any clues? Trying to find a workaround because one more time and I think my keyboard would recieve a severe damage.
I thought I was the only one :D
Yes I have that too, not only in the EF but with every plane with ARH weapons in TWS radar scope. Cycling to the next TWS target fixes it though (most of the time). It feels like it refuses to fire at some specific targets.
Edit: It only seems to affect AESA radars and most of the time if very many targets are present and detected/followed by the TWS ESA.
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Well I tried hard locking the target and it didn’t help at all. I also encountered this bug exclusively with only 1 target in my TWS ESA scan because it was a grb.
it wasn’t just that the AMRAAM exceeded its gimbal angle limit, was it?
Not experienced any issues myself.
Are you hard locking?
No, hardlock works all the time (at least for me). TWS locks are having issues with sometimes not letting you activate the ARH seeker for certain targets. It’s definitely not the auto switch to IRST as the US planes don’t have an IRST (and no targeting pod installed) but are affected by this problem too.
This problem is rare but it happens from time to time and can be quite annoying and from my experience only ESA radars are affected while M-Scans don’t have this problem.
This happening effectively 10° off from 0° frontal would be a really small AMRAAM gimbal limit :D
So Gaijin has used the flight model of the hellfire missile for the brimstone missile. Particularly, Brimstone is limited to 7G, and doesn’t have very good high off boresight capability, but why not?
Brimstone and Hellfire should be perfectly capable of high G, HOBS.
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In their terms: “Not enough info.”
Edit: And by their logic: Small control surfaces → Bad Maneuverability.
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I really hate the bar height and width settings of the CAPTOR-M in TWS mode.
Its so damn suboptimal in every conceivable way.
On narrow width bands you always want less elevation, more, and on the medium width bands, you always want at least 6 to 8 degrees of vertical scan area, but we get only 4 degrees of elevation…
Just please give me 20x4, 60x8, and 140x4, same as the SRC mode.
Instead we get this garbage…
15x13 - ??? this is easily the most useless and no better than 30x8 for total scan time
30x8 - which is OK, but if im on a narrow band, i dont want a large vertical scan at all
60x4 - your general purpose scan mode is limited to such a narrow vertical scan when you will need it most at medium to long range
140x4 - arguably the least problematic for trying to search for tray targets over a wide field, its fine in SRC mode, but TWS is so broken for the captor M it cant decide if a target it passes over actually exists or not. IMHO it would be best be reduced to 80x4 so it can scan just over half of the radar width. Great for when you have been forced to crank/go cold and want to recommit.
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I didn’t know the hellfire was chill like that
Which is a total load of dingo’s kidneys, as proven by a number of missiles in the game and reality known for their high agility despite small control surfaces (SA-13 and TY-90 being great examples here)
95Ya6M has a 75G overload, and it has super small control surfaces, but something something doesn’t apply to certain nations…
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Keep coping, King!
The missiles are not necessarily capable of high G manuvers, At least not when the motor has finished burning or when the missile has gained enough speed.
During the boost phase, the missile uses a combination of high angle of attack, and body lift during the boost phase to orientated itself in the direction of the target.
Angle of attack can reach up to to or even beyond 30 degrees, enabling it to make extremely rapid turns, similar to the swingfire missile in many ways, just without the need for thrust vectoring.
Gaijin still refuses to belive such technology can even exist…