Missile Launch Behavior

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< MISSILES IGNITE INSTANTLY IN WAR THUNDER >

I’ve noticed that, missiles ignite and accelerate instantly as soon as they’re fired from the pylon. In real life, some missiles are first dropped from the aircraft and only then does the motor ignite.

I’d really like to see the game reflect this drop behavior, along with proper missile animation, like: fins moving, thrust vectoring adjusting, and the missile gradually starting to accelerate after release. Right now, the instant ignition feels unrealistic and you don’t get to see how the missile actually steers in flight.

Implementing this would make missile launches feel much more lifelike and immersive.

What do you think of this??

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not all missiles are eject launched rail launches exist

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That would be an ejector launcher, rail launchers ignite to push the missile off (forward) the rail.

Rail Launcher;

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Ejector Launcher;
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Yeah that would be kinda cool ig. Would make planes like the flankers slightly worse, as most of their radar missiles are dropped launched then ignited rather than rail launched and would incure a delay (for some reason, even their belly mounted missiles are rail launched in game which makes 0 sense)
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Depends on the missile and launch system.

Here is the Aim-9M for example (timestamped to 30seconds):

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I see what you mean! I was thinking mainly about eject launched missiles that are dropped from the aircraft before ignition. I know that rail launched missiles exist, and those do ignite instantly. My point was just that it would be cool if War Thunder showed the drop and ignite sequence for missiles that actually work that way, along with proper animation fins moving, thrust vectoring adjusting, etc.