So, the debate is whether should the six-shooter F-106A have it or not, but the trial was done in 1970s, with first one upgraded with six-shooter package in 1972.
I think the event F-106A should get the AIM-26, and I don’t think it’s far fetched for include it.
Having the F-106 defending with nuclear air to air weapons at very high altitude and speed for the time (remember, this is before ICBM) was probably the reason why it never saw any action
No proxy fuze is the missile’s main issue but otherwise it’s actually quite good. It’s not like the AIM-9s at the same BR have good countermeasure resistance.
Flight performance is excellent as well compared to the AIM-9, just with slightly shorter range which is why the Falcons have a poor reputation (they were fired out of envelope)
The other issue was the four second spool up time though I doubt that will be modelled properly.
In fact since Gaijin just took the maximum number from the AIM-26 SMC for its overload then with the same process they’d have a roughly 42g overload
Yeah, that was pretty bombastic, I honestly wonder if the guy wasn’t just being sarcastic there. There’s other sources on the same website that say F-106 pilots assumed any mission where they launched a Genie would be a one-way trip, that even the break turns they’d trained couldn’t guarantee they’d escape the shockwave and would have to “surf” it instead. It’s pretty obvious why they never actually did a full-up test of a Genie, ever. (An F-89 did fire one live, but it wasn’t at a drone target, it was just aimed at a point in space 17 km away, well outside any plausible combat range, but probably safer that way.) Maximum range of 10 km vs a closing target, so probably closer than that, 12 seconds or less til detonation to get pointed away… likely at least a pilot kill at 1 km away or so… yeah.
