pl-8b seems like it is not going to get it’s new motor. I like gatewidth irccm more, more consistent IMO
Yeah, I don’t even play it, but I agree it needs to stay at least remotely historical to its real life counterpart.
Based upon responses in this thread and others. I can see OPs argument for why it could be both, though it wasnt explained well (or really at all) in the original topic and sounded more like personal preferance rather historical accuracy. But Its already been confirmed the poll means nothing and a bug report with sources will be needed for the change to occur
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From what I can find the PL-8A is a licensed produced Python 3, the PL-8B got the 2 stage motor and an improved seeker, but I cannot find anything mentioning IRCCM being part of it. Some stuff from the PL-9 series that has multi-element IR seeker where added to the PL-8 but from what I can find they where to to allow seeker slaving compatibility with the Chinese radar and HMD.
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Thats not happening.
The J-10A is now getting PL-8Bs as part of the update, making this poll still relevant.
And thank you again to the almost 2000 people who have voted! Me and a few others are working on collecting irrefutable sources for gaijin, it’s not easy.
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As is well known, the PL8B features an improved seeker and a more powerful engine compared to the PL8.
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needs all the help it can get. PL8b has really bad kinematic performance relative to its size.
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If anyone has any sources related to the seeker of the PL-8B please share them, we are very close to making this a reality
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We already have these, but thank you for supporting.
This might be somewhat helpful, but I’m just a student and don’t have time to look for this right now.
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Sorry, brother, but you posted the topic in a wrong forum section. Devs won’t even bother to watch this. Happened to me many times. Pl-8B now feels much worse compared to R-73. Eats every single flare. And even range seemes to be shorter. I’m disappointed honestly.
He has reported the issue
Thank you, I’ll take a look when I get a chance.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/Vm2IhvAqFgYY
Very good report written by @Yamahagi