Recently got the mig23MLA and just had this strange moment in a match. R24R was going for the target fine until it just randomly decides to go hard left. Anyone have an idea why? Only reason I could think of is something to do with mti and that big hill it seems to be going for; nobody was near this guy to interfere with the lock.
It happens with all radar missiles. I think it has something to do with other radar returns or bad locks with the radar. Not totally sure though.
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All SARH missiles except for the R-27R and ER do this. It’s so annoying.
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Oh ok, thanks.
Even the R-27E/R fucks off to narnia sometimes, although its rare.
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Just a bug that happens to any SARH sometimes. Basically because the missile and its seeker is modelled independently of the launch aircraft and its radar. The only way to try to prevent this is to fire at lonelier targets and to make sure to properly pre-lead the missile prior to launch.
As the others said, it happens to most other SARH missiles. However I’ve noticed it happening more often on specific aircraft.
Even at perfect launch parameters, at a target going perfectly head-on with you, at high altitude, not dropping chaff the missile can still just randomly decide to go for some other random target on the deck that the radar randomly illuminated for a split second.
It happened to me, R24 fired at Su-25 at a front-aspect shot. I was at his 4 o’clock. He was at a bit of altitude so he wasn’t multipathing, and he didn’t notice me to start notching. The R24R I fired, within <10km started flying up and there wasn’t even anyone above him.
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