Wild card: Singaporean F-15E
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Wouldn’t the easiest way of getting JPN a 14.0 just to give to F-15JM AAM4B’s and call it a day
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pretty much
I don’t know much about Japanese jets or missiles but from a quick Google search the 4B doesn’t seem like anything over the top compared to other missiles we already have
its a aam4 with an aesa seeker (which’ll make it harder to notch(?)) and slight improvements over the base aam4 if i remember correctly
Same could be said about the F-2. Giving it AAM-4B would bump it to 14.0 also.
I thought it had a vastly improved range and a two-stage motor, or something like that.
@WreckingAres283 can probably tell you more about it than most other people on the Fourm.
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GCS-2 is GPS guided.
I really wish we got it instead of the 2000lb JDAM-ERs. Like, I know its basically the exact same thing, maybe a little more accurate, but it would be nice to have atleast prototype JP bombs instead of foreign bombs japan never even bought.
Even easier then that, honestly even just buffing AAM-3s might push the J(M) to 14.0, as it is already the best 13.7.
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Might push up the 13.0 planes too, imo making a quasi r-73 with seekers shut off would instantly become the best overall it missile in the game (like the aam4 is already). Idk if bank to turn will enable the aam4 to be able to turn at super low speed like thrust vectoring would, but I think it would be kinda ridiculous to expect 12.0 planes to do anything against it
What they should do is give an airframe a base BR and then have the weapons you matchmake with provide an additional BR modifier so they can ungimp most FOX3’s
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It doesn’t have that super low speed turning like R-73s do, but at higher speeds (like anything past 500kph) it can honestly match or beat an R-73 in offboresight, atleast from my tests approximating it.
IMO though yeah, it shouldn’t get better IRCCM right now, maybe later, but in the current state of the game all it could reasonably be expected to get is it’s off boresight performance.
AESA seeker and improved guidance logic. The motor is the same.
so it would be basically the same in wt other than seekerhead? I mean the aam4 is one of the best fox 3s, probably third after the r-77-1 and mica, but… can f-2 at least mount future aim 120 c-8s or something
Gaijin could model the AAM-4B as a much harder missile to notch and chaff, and also make it nigh-immune to multipathing (as all modern ARH missiles are anyway). It does have a bit more range, but that is due to the improved guidance logic.
Doubt it. I don’t even think Japan has any Charlies in stock, probably only Deltas for the F-35s.
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Their multiple requests to purchase AIM-9X Block II and AIM-120C7/C8/D3 were cleared multiple times.
Given how many AIM-120s they’ve acquired lately, I’m guessing some of those will be shared on the non-F-35 platforms alongside domestic missiles.
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Yeah, the F-15JM/JSI
Considering its taken them like a decade to run integration tests for the AAM-5, i doubt they’re planning on ecpanding the F-2’s air to air armaments more.
is aam5 better or worse than 9x block 2? I’ve heard that aam5 doesn’t have lofting/datalink, so unsure which would be better.
No datalink, both the 5 and 5B have lofting though.
The big advantage it has over the 9X is in IRCCM. Contrary to popular belief, IIR is not unfoolable in all conditions. The 9X uses a basic single band seeker, which looks for a hotspot which matches the size and intensity of the target. Meanwhile the 5B uses a higher resolution twin band seeker, which locks onto the shape, as well as size and intensity of the target.
What this means is that, while the 9X can be fooled from oversaturation from direct front or rear aspect (with a massive amount of flares), or in conditions where the ground or clouds are particularly prominent. The AAM-5B wont be. The difference between the 9X and the 5B is like the difference between a 9M and a 9X in terms of irccm.
Now, this isnt the only missile with this level of IRCCM, stuff like the Python 5 and mica IR NG would be similar. Now, currently all IIRs have the same level of IRCCM in game, but they really shouldnt. Although its kinda debatable if better irccm would even matter in game.
Regardless it should turn harder, simply from having more wing area, and the lacking DL doesnt matter that much as the 9X’s DL has no reconnect, and the 5-5B can still fire at targets outside their seeker gimbal via inertial guidence.
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Im not so sure R-77-1, especially being on the Su-30SMs flight model, is top ARH after the MICA… suppose it could just be skill issues but after unlocking the Su-30SM I am not all that impressed myself and have found most other ARH missiles 100x more reliable.
I think the R-77-1 may have an advantage at 1.5km-6km but outside of that nearly every other missile can do what it does but better. But I do agree that AAM4s and MICAs are quiet powerful, they are responsive and predictable.