As soon as ASRAAM is added we are gonna see other missiles like MICA IR, i cant see adding new missiles closing the gap especially if we see Meteor
Would be limited to at least PIRATE’s FOV, but not sure if its also able to use the TPod feed.
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I wonder when gaijin will model that, would be fun in sim
I am aware than MICA IR would also be added.
But Magic II + MICA EM vs Aim-9M in WVR is hopeless.
But MICA IR + MICA EM vs IRIS-T And/or ASRAAM would actually be at least somewhat fair
It would be fun, but no idea. Could be ages. Still waiting for relatively basic things to be modeled
I think its time to buff the amraams turn atp, even R-77-1 manoeuvrability report got accepted (however who knows how many months it will be sitting in that accepted state), probably not something as on release but rather in between the initial and current state.
Whilst fixing the AMRAAM’s flight performance would help, as would things like smokeless motor with the contrail overhaul. Its really the seeker that needs some love. There is at least 1 aspect of it reported, but I think there is a lot that could be buffed.
I do wonder how much of it is Gaijin generic modeling and thus could be buffed without report and what is actually documented.
Adding 5th gen IIR for most nations is actually a bigger deal than adding MICA IR for France.
Rafales already commonly run 6-8 MICA’s in-game cuz the missile is so good, so adding MICA IR just means replacing MICA EM’s on the Rafale, which means decreased range for increased seeker performance.
Adding 5th gen IR missiles for other nations means replacing considerably less meta missiles
- 9M → 9X for US
- 9M → ASRAAM for UK
- 9M → IRIS-T for Germany/Sweden/Italy
- 9M → P5 for Isreal
- AAM-3 → AAM-5 for Japan
- P3/PL-5EII → PL-10 for China
- R-73 → R-74M2 for russia
In general, if you consider it from the BR side of things, all of these missiles are like 13.0 missiles, and the MICA is a 14.0 missiles.
Also means that for all nations except russia, they finally get HOBS capabilities, which means sub 10km is a lot less skewed in favour of the Rafale.
MICA IR does have the range advantage, but thats somewhat negated by MAWS, ARH missiles and better radars. So the Rafale will be better with ambushes, but only vs targets without MAWS.
The MICA IR is also literally the worst of the bunch in HOBS launches if gaijin decides to keep going with LOBL only, with only 60° of gimbal limit vs all the other missiles 90° (except maybe the R-74M2 which might be stuck with 75°, still better than MICA IR though)
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i don’t think it’s going to be implemented any time soon. similar reports for aam4 and amraam have been sitting untouched for literally over a year now lol
smokeless motor wont really help meh?
plus gaijin doesnt wanna give a good seeker to anything but mica, better seekers can be considered once ECM is here
Smokeless motor would just mean that if you were to fire high unspotted by radar and not trailing contrail, you’d not
A) give away your position visually
or
B) give longer ranged warning that a missile has been fired.
Without those bits of information its possible the target wouldnt start defending until the AMRAAM went active.
Will absolutely help in BVR, smoke trails can be seen just as far away as engine contrails at high-altitude and it just lets me know to go into as much of a notch as possible, while keeping my radar locked onto the target to guide my missile in before my RWR detects their missile is within pitbull range.
players will just start to predict when to turn back tho
Prediction leaves room for error
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fair nuff
At this point. I dont think we’ll find the buffs we seek for the AMRAAM in a single buff, but rather a dozen small ones that all stack upon each other.
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So when scanning we have this scan sector, which makes sense
but when a threat is targeted via tws, it swaps to this line which sweeps with the radar
is this correct? I’d think it would stay as the sector.
would be the gr4s time to shine
It would. GR1s as well.
The ability to slap 2 on without affecting anything is just awesome, and if you dont care about Aim-9s, well thats another 2 too.
Id immediately add them to every single loadout on those extra pylons and have loadouts setup for replacing drop tanks too if wanted. As well as full SEAD fits.
ASB would become very very fun for me
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So AESA Eurofighter i’d imagine. I had some expectation of the Su-30MKI which also would be pretty nice but i’m more than happy with that.
After we get there i’d like some more focus on the lower jet tiers and some superprops. Just those legacy aircraft people have been asking for ages to make the tree more enjoyable at other brs.