You could win at high altitude and long range with sparrows, if you cranked enough. It works only when the enemy flies straight at you and does nothing. At medium ranges/altitudes r27 er is just too fast.
Planes that carry r77s can keep them as a side grade. Every fox 1 missile is badly outclassed by fox 3s, it doesn’t change the fact that also every fox 1 missile is badly outclassed by r27 er. If decompression happens, r27 er will dominate again.
F4f ice is 12.7 for a reason.
From a bvr fight both players can come out alive, simply because at such long range you get plenty of time to abort. When people learn bvr, it will happen a lot more often. That rarely happens with dogfights, someone will die.
That’s why dogfights will always be there. If you want to make sure you kill the enemy, you will push for a dogfight. I’m mainly talking about sim, as air rb is oversaturated with players, but even in air rb you get furballs, not exactly 1v1 dogfights, but still. In furballs ir missiles are better and flight model matters.
No way, that’s the whole point of fox 3s. You will never kill a fox 3 carrier with your fox 1 and survive.
I bet though that with r27 er you could pull it off. R27 er has inertial guidance and data link, you could break the lock to notch and lock your target again, not to mention that mig 29smt doesn’t even have to break the lock, since it has a radar with 90 degrees gimble limits. It’s also so fast that the enemy probably wouldn’t have enough time to guide his fox 3 into pitbull range before r27 er gets to him, he goes for a notch, while you just get out of the way of inertial guidance while keeping a lock and launching another one. You can even gain ground fighting against fox 3s with r27 er. It’s so good, that theoretically you can fight fox 3s with it, which only further proves it has no business going up against an aim 7m.
Sooner or later current top tier will be moved up to 13.3 or 13.7, then it will be perfect at 12.3.