Mistral, Stinger and the HN-6 manpad missiles are nerfed because Gaijin believes that like 6-10 sources (flight manuals, marketing materials and technical documents) of the missiles themselves are inaccurate and since the Igla can’t pull more than ~10G continuous, Stingers and the other certainly cannot do that.
The gist here is that despite nomerous primary sources stating otherwise, Gaijin thinks that their crooked math and “we believe” is more accurate.
I just saw the date of the thread, thought before that this is some kind of update where they improved the missiles, but not anywhere close to reality.
Could someone further along in their (aerospace) engineering degree/career than me (who also isn’t as tired as I am rn) check out the following sources to see if they could help establish a better set of equations of motion to evaluate rolling-body missiles? If a set of equations was established, we could actually prove the overloads of the Stinger or Mistral.
I know they’re using the wrong math, but with a new set of equations we would be able to say what the peak and average overload of a PID-controlled missile is
Since the second source was AIAA I suspected it was fine, but wasn’t sure. The fourth source just says unclassified, though, and not unclassified and approved for public release (not trying to be an ass, it could be export restricted for whatever reason).
Can someone with programming experience in Fortran, C, Ada, or 1970s/1980s era microprocessors (preferably with experience with control theory) message me? I’m not familiar with the languages and want to figure out the actual number of cycles needed to update a PID loop.
I’ve found an example a PID controller program someone has made in C whose variables are all floats, so unless the code was done in assembly or something (or some other behind the scenes wizardry I don’t understand), the microprocessors necessary to handle the random guy’s code are 32-bit. The earliest 32-bit processors are from 1979, and more came around in the early 1980s (so around the time of the Stinger-RMP). Another thing that adds to it is that the Wikipedia page (completely unsourced and I get I’m “citing” Wikipedia) says the RMP has four processors with 4 KB of RAM each and the C program is 3.718 KB total.
The only change the RMP introduced was allowing the Flare detection logic to be reprogramed at the depo level as to be rapidly optimized against an emerging novel countermeasure. Instead of needing to be returned to the factory, in order to be reconfigured by a wholesale guidance section replacement within the AUR.