I know multipathing to evade radar but somehow always this 2 missle hit me. The R-77 and Aim-120 What up with this 2 missles? why do they always hit me I am literally below 30 Meters. And also how to notch properly? All i know is turn 90 Degrees from where the RWR is screaming. I watched bunch of tutorial and do the same thing however it only work a little. I am still new to Top tier need more help.
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Sometimes the angle at which the missile comes from might make it able to splash damage you or straight up ignore multipath, especially top-down launches, so even when you hug the ground be always sure to at least try to crank away or notch.
Regarding the notch, make sure to enter the notch as soon as possible in flankers, they are not good for evading close launches, and also make sure to level your plane out to check if you are actually in a 90 degree notch (this is because flankers have RWR blindspots).
Make sure to also try and turn cold (and not just notch) when you are being targeted by a mid-range/far missile, you have a chance to bleed its speed out and evade it, even if your RWR is still screaming.
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Think of multipathing like the ground is a mirror. When the missile is on final approach, it confuses your reflection with you, and goes for the reflection if you are below 60m.
But if you are too close to the ground or if the missile is coming down from a steep enough angle, then the missile will hit you on the way to hitting your “reflection”.
The most reliable way to defend is either to kinematically drain the missile by turning hard or entering a 90° notch and deploying chaff. It is very tricky to do reliably
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Multi-path:
-Simply, if you are at or below 60m above ground level
a radar reflection will appear 20m below your plane, the missile will go for it
-phoenix has 20m proxy and large HE warhead, so it can kill you
-a missile coming from a high angle, has a very high chance to hit your plane on its way to reflection or proxy
Notch:
-the closer you are to 90 degrees the higher chance of a notch, chaff helps increase a notch at lower angles
-enemy might have you looked and from a different angle, constantly feeding his missile data
-newer missiles can ignore notching due to better seekers
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ok so to drain the missle to i just use the cobra button and turn 180 degrees instantly to drain the speed or do i just pull up 90 degrees and fly up straight to the sky??
Cobra-ing will slow you so much that it will be even easier for it to hit you.
If the missiel is fired from longer distances, turn 90 or even turn 180 and drag the missile away. You can also turn 90, fly a bit and then turn 180 to fly back the way you came.
The idea being to make the missile expend its energy which is finite after its motor has finished burning and eventually it will just fall out the sky