Yes I’m taking about arcade mode and my idea is to make the game fairer for all intended people. There nothing stopping an aircraft from flying 2.5 kilometers below the to fire. I’m just saying that aircraft should move around a lot more than they normally do and rate of climb would actually have a meaning.
As it should be,… but you were unaware, got shot then complain,…
You’re fault/mistake → your problem
Btw to shoot up this range, the missile shot might be a radar one → in such radar missile Lock radius is depending on the radar and Seeker
most of the toptier missiles are able to lock up to 40-50km range (up to 150km for AIM-54)
missiles from BR 10.0 and around are between 20km to 40km
The ranges are also dependant with the purpose of each missile type,… there is no reason to limit the lock of long-range missiles since you can use your RWR more effectively
There many thing a toptier player might be able to do, and the first is to self question about what mistakes have been made.
→ your mistake on this thread is to think that Fairness is something at war.
A climb rate is the ability to increase altitude, but it’s also Speed Relevant → most missiles travels at twice or 3 times your speed.
When having full speed at sea level(mach 1.2) in a MiG-19 you can straight climb up to 8500m, before running out of energy
You can agree that you’re aircraft is Heavier/have more drag than a missile right?
Therefore you wonder that a Mach 2.5 missile is able to climb up to your altitude from 7.2km below with a missile able to travel up to 5 time that range easily?
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I’m despised by your thinking, which certainly does not apply physical laws and applications,…
Throw a baseball in the sky, then throw an 12pound bowling ball → which one is going to have highest altitude in between their flight?
Then what about a 120kg, traveling Mach3 missile vs a 7 to 20 tons aircraft traveling at mach 1?
Thats my guess, and Ironically the 9Ms are probably the easiest to flare of the new missiles, its dump a few flares and manuever, compared to dumping a buttload of flares and turning entirely around for the R-73 and Magic 2
My problem is that I think that missiles have to great of a lock on range. I’m no expert on missiles nor do I know much about them but, I think that it’s completely unfair how an aircraft flying at 3500 kilometers can fire at a aircraft flying at 7200 kilometers and somehow get a 100% accurate shot. So my theory is that they either need to make the shooting range less or they need to make the chance of a missile hit go down the further you are away from the target.
I’m just saying that I intentionally climb up to 7200 meters and someone who’s at 3500 meters has a 100% chance of hitting you. That makes no sense to me, I mean you should have a 20% or a 10% chance of hitting a target. I mean sure it takes some time to get up there to hit me and maybe if I did some turning maneuvers I would dodge them more.
For most SARH, that is an easy shot to make. R-27ER, Aim-7M and Skyflash ST can make short work of what is only 4kms. In a level flight, those missiles could hit something 30+kms away with relative ease. so whilst yes it will loose energy climbing, it will have more than enough energy to hit something at that height. But you should be warned by your RWR, so you’ll know you need to drop chaff and notch.
As for an IR missile, few have that kind of range to reliably hit, except maybe things like R-27ET being the main one that comes to mind (though I dont know if its currently still in a nerfed state).
But artificial nerfs defeat the entire point of War Thunder.
That’s funny that you mention that because yesterday I flew close to the ground for my first flight out and I bombed at least 5 or 6 targets before being shot down, so flying close to the ground must be the solution.
Due to multi-pathing, SARH dont work well at low alt and you are mostly safe, the only real reason to ever sit high at higher BRs is when you have the SARH to win a BVR dual, R-27ER, Aim-7M and Skyflash ST, Aim-54. If you have those and a good radar to go with it, then its worth it. If not, hug the deck