Playing the AMX A1A I realised how bad the seeker on the MAA-1 is in game , you can miss targets by them shooting pretty much anything , which sounds crazy for me, well I decided to research a bit about the missile I found some interesting stuff.
Going on the brazilian website “Defesa aérea & naval” you can find some old news talking about the missile :
It talks some stuff about the creation etc of the missile but the interesting part is here
It is in portuguese so im gonna translate for yall:
“With its tracker (“Seeker”) integrated into the modernized F-5M weapons system, each of the MAA-1 missiles was launched against a “flare” launched by another F-5M aircraft and whose fall was supported by a small parachute. The success rate was considered satisfactory by the FAB, within the different launch profiles adopted and different missile configurations, some with inert payloads and others fully active.”
From what I understood it hit the target in some angles even with the flare being dispensed, which never happens in game, flaring results in 100% miss in the game from what I tested.
Even though its probally not flare resistant , considering that it got upgrades which in the same news talks about them being the MAA-1B which is told that it then gets the anti-countermeasure system , I don’t think the MAA should be so weak against any way of heat in game as it is right now .
Also this is just what I understood yall are free to give me more info about it if you have.
I used these both links to look for this info :