recently I have noticed that the R73, despite having IRCCM, is easily fooled by flares that resembles an R60, while the American Aim9m are simply impossible to escape at 2km or less, and another matter when the mig29-9-13, will be given R73 to become historically accurate and will have the R27ER removed since he can never use them
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Fixed it for you.
The R-73 uses gate width IRCCM which means it stats as 4.5deg FOV but as soon as its launched it narrows it down to 0.75deg (for reference the R-60M’s FOV is 5degrees and the Aim-9L’s FOV is 3.6deg). This means that the R-73 is actually much more effective at closer ranges and can be unflarable, usually within 1.5km. The weakness of the R-7 however is that at longer ranges its easier to flare.
The Aim-9M on the other hand uses seeker shut off IRCCM. When it sees flares it will turn off its seeker and you can abuse this mechanic making it so that a 9M can never hit you by flaring periodically enough so that the 9M’s seeker pretty much always stays off. Though planes with small amounts of CM will have trouble flaring multiple 9Ms so you have to be conservative by waiting until the last moment to flare periodically.
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IRCCM/IRCM is completely random.
The R-73 relies on the distance being short enough so that its small FOV doesn’t see flares. The Aim-9M works at any range by shutting down its seeker for a short while and continues flying in the same direction it was going before it went blind.
What I noticed is that the R-73 spins out really quick