The highest range value I’ve seen for the AIM-120A/B/C-3/C-4 is 74km, the minimum I’ve seen for the R-77 is 80km. The R-77 reaches 80km without even needing to loft, and with lofting it can reach 110km - as seen by the R-77-1 (which only added automatic lofting, it’s the exact same motor). Manual lofting would be a bit less inefficient, but it will still most definitely reach 100km.
The maximum value I’ve seen for any AMRAAM’s seeker range is for the C-7 (and later models), with it being an ambiguous “it’s probably more than 16km.” Unless you’ve seen something I haven’t, the C-7 is the first AMRAAM that could even possibly be the equivalent to the R-77-1, going off of publicly available information.
Going off of what? Every thread I’ve seen has only shown a max of 16km.
i tried using the tac view with good old 530Ds. some shots were launched from 9km altitude at 1800 km/h (real speed of aircraft) and the missile reached a max speed of mach 3.8 (real speed of 4200 km/h)
keep in mind that this scenario is really optimistic for an average air rb game. In general, SARH won’t go faster than mach 3 (3000-3500 ish km/h)
for a 530D to reach mach 5 you probably need to climb to 12km, get to the max speed of the aircraft, and fire the missile in a perfect straight line against a very cooperative target flying to the same altitude. Basically, it never happens X)
c5 also has a better more modern seeker, a much longer range, and retains energy a lot better. the 120a/b are balanced as they are because the r77 while having a higher listed range bleeds a lot of speed when even making smaller course corrections due to poorer missile body design lol. the 120a and b will be the best at retaining speed and will also be deadly close range as well as far
yea cause gaijin doesn’t know how to model aircraft and they know they’d have a lot of people on them about giving another nation a better version of the aircraft they produce.
Making the A equivalent to the C is the fact gaijin didn’t wanna make UK upset about not getting a good aircraft but also didn’t wanna make Sweden mains mad by making another nation have a better version so they made it equal, So now they cant add the C to Sweden cause it’ll be exactly the same as the A, which is gonna make more people mad
I think the game will be fine with these but they NEED to be stock. Stock jets are already miserable enough with SARHs and IRCCM not always being available, but with these they’re going to be completely unusable.
Biggest problem is 16v16, it should be 10v10 max. There is way to much going on 16v16 AirRB needs to drop player count. Its sensory overload with that many players, radars, and missiles flying around.
