brother man it doesn’t burn long enough to be detected and has some of the most advanced irccm in the world
agreed, but you have to get much closer. Which means you have to dodge a bunch of enemy missiles before finally being able to fire yours.
Radars and seekers in general are also going to become more resistant to notching, multipathing, and what not. Not to mention PESA and AESA are not that far off now, which means sneaking from an unexpected angle is going to become increasingly difficult
Even if It has the best irccm from 20km It still can be flares it’s not and IIR missile.
IR missile or not, it has BVR capability. And F-14/15/16, Mig-29/Su-27 and many other planes in-game do not have any MAWS to detect these IR missile launches. F-35 is a long way from now. Eurofighter is the only reasonable platform to detect these launches and also come in a reasonable amount of time.
We have IIR missiles in-game. Try and flare SPIKE ER, you can’t.
We could expect It to come in a future where everyone has maws.
To think MICA IR would only come once F-35 is here is absurd.
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The mica Is not IIR
Sir, it is. It is imaging infrared.
It Will come when everyone has and omonolog tò It.
Then we would Need countrmesures made tò stop IIR missiles.
game balance is not relevant to the original argument
He started talking about it’s implementation into the game.
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Yes and no, consider this:
AIM-120C-5 will have more range but will need to get closer because its radar will have people defending when it’s 20km away.
MICA IR will have less range but won’t need to get closer because people won’t be defending against it.
So the effective ranges might be similar.
but do they even exist ? I’m not sure X)
They do search them online or go tò the thread where they talked about 5th gen short range missiles.
well tbh, i don’t know what the metrics are for the engine of aim120C (delta V, burn time, force, that kind of stuff).
But i get your point
i think burn time would kind of bite the missile in the ass just because contrails are so easy to see in warthunder