May I ask what is the big difference between the M and the P. I would assume one could and one couldn’t be used with data link. Also I thought the 120 could be used with data link too?
It can and it does in game. Its why you can update and support the lock after firing. Without DL, it would just be guided via IOG until it got into range of its own seeker.
As for SARH, its only the R-27ER at the moment that has DL
I thought data link was between 2+ different aircraft?
so funny thing with aim7m it had a special seeker that aloud it to peroform the way it does close to the ground if i rember correctly which they added to everyting in game for balance reasons the P model had DL the M came before P
Data-link is also between aircraft and weapon system and multiple aircraft can also support a single weapon. I believe ASRAAM for example can be guided onto a target via multiple sources.
In-game multi-vehicle data-link isnt really modeled past the HMD-IFF thing. But is between weapon and launch aircraft.
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Inverse-monopulse seeker iirc. Yeah, basically everything got it and then they just did the blanket multipath stuff as well
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then added the best sar missile ingame breaking the game again because russia suffers or sometthing
Yeah… 2023 sucked because the one thing the F3 should have been good at, it wasnt because of R-27ERs. Those things were and still very much are, OP as hell.
Id almost go as far as to consider them on-par with some ARH missiles
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if im not wrong the r27ER does overperform or something like that right ?
There was a report about its data-link is only suppose to work once and isnt re-established after the lock is broken or something. But I think Gaijin turned around and went “nah, we dont beleive this source”
Edit:
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/todo3RATsYNY
basically all radars and all missiles can do it ingame, but only the R-27ER has DL
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i was very happy when aim54s came in as r27er users couldnt launch before me
it doesn’t over perform it’s just the best SARH missile which is why it’s still heavily used by the modern VKS, although getting information is difficult
I was stuck with Skyflash SuperTEMPS until the Aim-120
aim7e2s where fine till they nerfed them to do only criticals
This is the type of data link i was talking about earlier between planes not radar and radar missile, but they are called the same thing so that’s super easy to mix up.
But would you think the plane to plane data link will ever be added?
probably f22 is in files so anything can happen
Maybe, it has the same issue as buddy lasing, in that it could be very powerful when in a squad, but basically useless in the normal random MM.
Yeah that makes sense but it would still be cool. especially if it’s air radar to ground radar
first flight for eurofighter was 94, the f22 first flew in 97 and there are newer aircraft in game, stealth would only matter for bvr
whhich is the meta