If there’s one thing about the Hornet being added eventually that excites me (aside from performance): It’s the aggressor camouflages
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Had the F/A 18 a actually aim 7 MH I heard that these are significantly better than aim 7 m
F/A-18 had AIM-7P which are even better than MH, the Ps have lofting, inertial guidance, better clutter discrimination, better jamming resistance etc.
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AIM-7M standard has lofting already (just not in-game). AIM-7P in the context of war thunder offers only inertial guidance, datalink.
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Not really. Just the H from what I know
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What document is this? could you share the link?
The rest of the document shows you can point AIM-7M “up” with lofted command and it will travel upwards in a similar fashion to the method the R-27ER uses currently. “Manual lofting” is a real thing.
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I have no idea but I assume that from the F18 as above is states TGT size to small, only f14 and f18 have thos option
I presumed it was the F-15 weapons delivery manual based on the style
Well wouldn’t they be similar as they are both aircraft made by the same nation with the same air to air loadout
No, because one would be Air Force and the other is Navy.
Fair point
but would that apply to the F35 though
It is but not to the efficiency of real lofting. Say you are at 40k ft firing at a target that the missile will take 60 seconds. It’ll fly 20 seconds at 30°, then guide normally. Manual lofting, you’ll bleed alot of airspeed, can’t reach 30° and missile will not have that flight profile, it will react more than normally. Do the math, the missile gains like +10km in alt doing so and above 40k ft the sustainer actually adds speed to the missile.
And on the R27 the guidance “feature” makes it loft anyway ingame.
I thought aswell due the style, but I pretty sure its the f18. There isn’t a tgt size option in the f15 and f16s don’t carry sparrows
I don’t recall saying it is equally as efficient
The lofting description on the F15 would be on a +87’ -34-1.
You can already do that. There’s no ASE cue, but just pitch the plane above the target and fire. Manual lofting done.
Tracking all, doesn’t work for missiles to extend range when they’re already limited by seeker… But that was changed since that post.
So it is now confirmed that the F/A-18 will not be included in next major update. Hornet is now more likely to be added later than AMRAAM.
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Where was that?
I guess might considered add F/A-18 legacy Hornet with AIM-120 AMRAAM at 13.0 BR after gaijin introduced rank IX in 1 or 2 year but not this year
After the first major update gaijin could add F/A-18 with AIM-7