MANPADS Missiles and Overload: The Technical Details

FLock is also a stat measured in time. It took ~5 seconds from acquisition to lock. Rotary Wing craft hovered in place during the test so time is irrelevant

Maybe I’m wrong but look at the page8. Targets were less than 500m away.

It was a simulation not actual tests.
Fkill and hkill it’s a kills / engagements.
Barely close to 50%, including IFF failure.

Ill continue reading, but for now I haven’t see any confirmation about actual 6,5km lock

You are, refer to the scale on the right hand axis of Figure.1 on PDF Page #15

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA229197.pdf#page=15

Simulated ah-64 in less than 2km….where is the 6.5km?

Referring to the same figure, as part of the Summer series (left hand key) of tests indicates that test point 1 was used for the Stinger Trials, which sits at ~6.5 km of simulated distance.

Alternately Scenario #9 of in Table -5 (PDF page #23) is listed as an AH-64 at 6.5km.

and is confirmed to be used against MIM-72 & FIM-92 crews in Table #6 on the following page.

Implying that you can even lock helis with Gaijin’s AMAZING helicopter IR modeling. Why, I’m lucky if I can lock a helicopter 1km away. (True story, on the cold maps during cloudy weather you will not be able to lock a heli with IR missiles until they are effectively crawling inside your colon)

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Imagine being able to just spawn a LAV at match start and decimate all the Russian Helios that rush in with guns and rockets. It may take 3-4 missiles. But I mean shit I got loads lol. Then just J-out and get in your Abrams(or whatever less freedom loving nation you play) and lose no spawn points really.

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All fun and games until its a KA52 or Mi28NM ,in which case only your cannon is effective at taking them out.

Oh hey yall now that i’m back from the naughty corner here’s my Stinger bug report

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/CrgLh51VkpQZ

It seems army taught gunners to use ATAS to engage air targets within 8km.

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Stinger report has been acknowledged!

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/CrgLh51VkpQZ

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That reminds me, gimble limit for the Chaparral when?

Has the smokeless motor bug fixed?

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Not that I’ve heard :(((

Nope, not yet

Hope this will also apply to the FIM-92Ks

Yes it will, all singers in-game share the same seeker (Singer POST)

I just brain farted and wrote F instead of K designation, fixed it on the report.

Really hope Gaijin realizes that too

Apart from the ATAS, which for some reason is the Basic (FIM-92A) model instead of the RMP (FIM-92C) or RMP Block I (FIM-92E) missiles, even though the later variants are compatible with the ATAL mount.

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ATAS is derived from FIM-92B and C. This features the same seeker as E and K stingers. It just lacks the Proxy fuze, some signal processing(?) and the Reprogrammable Micro Controller

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