I believe most radars on helicopters are ground search ones, and those don’t really need IFF, but someone can correct me if I’m wrong
It was extremely stupid.
“Stock ammo was too strong and was a problem in need of correction” is also stupid.
But the damage has been done and there’s nothing we can do to change things now. Everyone is used to HEAT-FS being useless, so there’s no point in trying to get it made moderately useful again.
You mean since the F14 release?
And then again when the F16C dropped and the FM of the Mig-29 was destroyed?
its still good and the r27er didnt require a flight model either way and was the best missle in the game and swated everything out of the sky
before that already as well
russia is no victim, even in the case it was worse then the US it was still better then every other nation
literal best example germany which got every vehicle patches after russia like mig 21 mig 23 etc
and it was better then other nations as well
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The 9M is better than the R73 by a longshot in everything but HOB shots.
The fact that it flies nearly twice as far and is invisible the whole time makes a world of difference, not counting the IRCCM being far superior.
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This if anything the thrust vectoring is a downside because of how poorly gaijin models it casuing the R73 to spin out wildy at low launch speeds or just overshoot randomly
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100%. Though I do laugh when it spins out of control in a replay.
I have had one that I launched kill me after it started doing a spin cycle and proxying on me.
No way. Got a test?
Select R73 and AIM9M.
on god bro cuz he kept commenting craziest thing ever across many topic/discussion. Like in this topic - how he says “R-27ER is equivalent to AIM-7F/M having a slightly longer range” made me chuckled. R-27ER is NO WHERE equivalent to aim7f/m. What is he smoking? Sometimes he’s not wrong but majority of the time i got no idea what bro is talking about.
I’d rather see an actual in-game test than a spreadsheet… The spreadsheet also says the 7F and ER have the same range so I don’t know if its accurate.
Not sure how to set up a custom battle where I could compare the two in sensor view tbh.
I mean most SARH missiles have similar ranges the difference is in how fast they can get there and at what altitude
Same parameters the R-27ER will beat the 7F. The limitation comes down to the radar.
Same parameters aren’t even physically possible for the R-27ER because russian radars struggle to lock anything beyond 20km let alone 70km
I mean this is just a lie. I’ve gotten kills as far 65km.
If someone’s at altitude flying directly at you then sure but not if they’re at low altitude flying away russian cassegrain radars are absolute garbage when the target isnt flying in anything but the absolute perfect angle
a whole 3km difference
Which translates to roughly 20% more range at low altitude.