They could add in 9X since it’s the worst of the modern missiles. It would be wrong but technically there’s some finegaling you could do.
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The issue is that the Typhoon is an aggressive aircraft that you need to play defensively and its jsut wierd.
Aim-120s certainly no longer feel like they hold much advantage anymore, especially as people have become more confident in defending and the aircraft have become better at handling it too. So the range advantage on the Aim-120B has lost much of its potency and the MCIA/R-77-1s WVR performance holds far greater value.
So I could see Aim-120C5s coming at some point.
As for SRAAMs. The lack of a HOBS missile sucks, but its tuning it right so that it isnt OP or without making a new arms race with everyone else. But just giving AIm-9M their IRL lock ranges and turning them into a medium range weapon would be enough I think in the SRAAM department
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I don’t think we will see IIR missiles for awhile sadly.
They need to make changes to the 120B we have in game or upgrade it to the C so we at least have some chaff resistance and some HOB capability.
R-77-1 and R-73 are in a different world to Aim9M and 120B
Standard Typhoon pilots SA right there.
what are you trying to do
change canopy glass, and even better if i can change the hud glass
Again playing the Su-33 up high F-15 with 120s and the R-27ER no nonsense just slaps him out of the sky at 30km…
Had that been a 120 he likely defeats it easily.
Then when you get to the close range end of game stuff you have the R-73 and R-27ET
It’s just so good, almost want to start grinding Russia for how obscene the Su-35 will be when added.
You summed it up perfectly Typhoon is the Alpha predator of the current game or it should be and instead you play flying around not able to find things with a missile that doesn’t really work so you spend most of the time on the deck or cold
MiG’s/MKI for Britain and they’re better than the Typhoon I’m calling it now.
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Yeah, every match in ASB, im trying to avoid the furballs and just sling Aim-120s from a far beacuse I know i’ll be out classed in a dogfight that I dont hold every advantage in. Had a rather intense match the other day where every time I took off, I had nothing but Su-30 pings practically surround the AF and spent the next 10 minutes in constant defensive action with rapid RTBs to re-arm. Managed to walk away with a load of kills and no deaths, but I was pushing both my own skill and the aircraft to its absolute limit and it was rough.
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yeah lets just add everything to britain
why not adding the US as a british subtree as it was a colony once
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I don’t see Britain ever getting the Su-30MKI it’s got Russian premium/event vehicle all over it probably give it Kh-38MTs too just to really add insult to injury!
MiG 29K navalised maybe but payload of 6 R-77 is pretty poor by top tier standards
Su-30MKI with ASRAAM and AESA whislt the Typhoon is limited to Blue Vixen and Aim-9M for balancing reasons.
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Hate to moan but this is what Typhoon is on paper to everyone else it looks amazing but as discussed it has so many shortcomings that it’s blistering speed and climb rate accounts for very little.
I think half the Aim-120 issues are actually radar issues and they are so bad that its worth having a moan. I have to spend so much time with my “head in the cockpit” just babysitting the radar that I dont find it a fun aircraft to play. Would rather slap the living hell out of some mig-23MLs in the Tornado F3 than try and play the Typhoon at the moment.
Missile loadout is annoying, but not a lot can be done about that currently
After that, its just the annoying little things that we just have to wait a decade to be fixed. Its a shame just how little effor they put into the Typhoon/how rushed it was prior to the last major update and now the priority is on the aircraft that came in the last major update. Like the SU-30 and F-18.
Typhoon is now likely on the back burner for a while
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Radar issues are rough I agree and actually laughed when the “terrible” Su-33 Radar locked the exact thing I was looking at and not the ground or nothing!
120s just need a little more lethality a change to the code to prevent the seeker being so easy to defeat with chaff. I do think the game has issues with jets notching or entering the notch.
The missile seems to think the whole aircraft is now magically notching while a large portion is not yet in the notch.
I also think aircraft that are larger and have larger RCS should get a penalty when trying to defend ARHM.
larger RCS more chance of some of that aircraft being reflected to the seeker?
Typhoon according to Gaijin is fine and it will continue to be fine as no one is really playing it.
Air RB lucky if there are 2 in a team and 4 in a game.
Compared to 4+ on each team of various Su-30/27SM and Rafales.
With no one playing it the stats will look favourable making any buffs or fixes less likely.
with the MICA getting an improved Seeker, I do wonder if there are any seeker buffs we could pursue for the Aim-120.
Perhaps, would be interesting, but this I think would require an overhaul to how chaff works.
But Typhoon could certainly do with its RCS reduction and properly modeled chaff. That is the other side of the coin. The typhoon has a decent CM count, but running BOL as pure chaff is annoying because of how weak the Chaff is. Meaning we are mostly reliant on kinematics to defeat ARH seekers, which isnt ideal in CQB
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If they would model the BOLs with their pyrophoric flares correctly they would even be effective against IIR seekers. Instead of doing a notch like with ARH missiles you do a turn to have the IIR missile on your six, pop pyrophoric flares which form a cloud/wall of broadband IR radiation behind you which covers your plane and you turn away before the IIR missile flies through the cloud and is able to see your plane again or the cloud dissipates.
Well France and Europe would love it, US and Russian mains would not…So we know that’s not going to happen!
Kinematics are fine if you are far enough away from the missile. at 10km you are just dead 75% of the time.
There has to be some RNG though, otherwise Typhoons DASS system that uses Spectral countermeasures and we have multiple sources to confirm that. Should be well protected
in game that’s not the case with the MAWS system unable to flare any IR missile.