Today I was playing with a friend on the test range (he was in the new Claws, and I was in the Su-34). I dropped two Grom-1s on him; he shot down both bombs using AIM-9X missiles. Just a reminder: Grom is just a bomb without an engine or any other parts that could theoretically heat up. I have absolutely no idea how he managed to shoot them down.
Air resistance could theoretically cause the surface of the bomb allowing the 9x to lock on. I believe it has an imaging seeker but no clue how thats modelled. It would also have been radar slaved to the groms and maybe just kept track?
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all spaa can do same thing even dump bombs can be shut down
the S1 and 2S6 can do same thing for Mk84 and Gpu 39
it’s not magic.
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The skin of the bomb heats up as it travels on the plane. If the plane is hot enough for all-aspect missiles to lock onto it from the front, then the same is true for bombs
9X has datalink too so it could be datalinking target info from the radar
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