Playing with the flankers, it seems as if when launching a R73 at slow speed, no matter what direction the plane is facing it seems the missile will come off the rails in the direction of the plane’s velocity vector, which greatly reduces its accuracy.
This seems to be for all missiles and affects them all pretty equally but is most obvious with R73 as it is the only missile with thrust vectoring at the moment.
I’m not denying this could be something else going on that I’m unaware of, but I’m curious if anyone can corroborate this.
Generally speaking, if you fire a missile at low speed, it will necessarily depart in line with the movement of your plane. This is normal; the missile does not necessarily have the lift to maneuver instantly and must first gain speed.
This is especially true on the R-73 because the fact that it uses trust vectoring gives it a high AoA which reduces its speed, which in the case of very low speed shots, just makes it fail to hit its target because it cannot store enough speed to reach it.