Nerf AIM-120A/B

Step 1: Speak English
Step 2: Refer the @Morvran he summed it up nicely.
Step 3: Get better

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Have you ever tried r77-1? Cause these kind of aburd statement feels like you dont have any idea how they perform

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Blud youre firing a missiles at at target above you and far from you, you did that whilst subsonic.

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This missile is inferior and hit at a longer distance than the 77

Instead of nerfing something that doesn’t need to be nerfed how about decompress the BRs to allow airplanes with less capabilities breathing room in their match makers?

If i launch a missile from the ionosphere it will also hit

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You fired this derby from a significantly higher alt and against a passive target, any fox 3 will hit such a slow target headon at 7k meters.

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As others have said, you fired from a far better position.

Instead of loosing energy climbing to the target, it gained energy by descending to the target

To give an IRL context to this. Sea Harrier FA2s firing Aim120Bs used to outrange Tornado F3 firing the same all the time because despite the fact the FA2 was at about Mach 0.8 and the F3 was at about Mach 1.1+. The FA2 would fire from 30k ft Vs the F3s normal alt of 20k ft.

Launch altitude has a huge impact on range

Except it doesn’t?

You don’t know how to defeat ARHs if you need chaff

Then I can assure u that u don’t know either. Chaff is how u stop giving the enemy an advantage.

So u don’t lose it whilst turning? LOL.

Aircraft with positive TWR can maintain their speed well when turning and if you convert altitude into speed as you turn, you can also mitigate the energy loss. Also, if the missile is much further away, then a sharp, immediate turn into the notch isnt necessary, and you can pull more gently

So context is rather important

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Will still lose loads, cause AoA to drag is by the factors especially for Delta wings. Also nothing really does have positive TWR with fuel and missiles.

i just find when I do that I end up being continuously suppressed a lot of times, like Su30SM or F18 doesn’t care if they threw a couple more missiles just to get the kill. I tend to have at that point because I am in notch a few seconds too long that more missiles are coming my way.

Never really noticed it or had issues in the Typhoon, even with max fuel and a belly full of bombs and missiles

Perhaps. But then you should be in a fairly advantageous position to just notch them as well, let them waste missiles and when they are done, turn and fight. Id also be looking for some terrain I could exploit too

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For the fun of it, I tried to replicate your launch conditions as best I could from memory (post is hidden so I dont think I matched it exactly) But you can see that not even AMRAAM is infalable if fired poorly

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No. Chaff is how you make up for imperfect notches, or close range launches where you need to defeat a missile without giving up angles.

Pretending like you turn into an airbrake just by defending is cope.

And nothing is stopping you from firing a missile in return from gimbal limits to force them defensive as well.

Issue is with stuff on the floor, if they didn’t get fired upon they are well within 16km and even 10 by the time you start notching. Missile gives u maybe 2-3 seconds to notch and chaff.

Erm u played too much nato to not realise that is a NATO thing?

Yeah basically.
Just directly drops speed by around 5% with planes that aren’t OP kinetically.

Dare I say this, but then you’ve screwed up. You’ve allowed them to maintain both an advantageous position against you and attack you freely and now you need to try and force the fight into a WVR battle where you may be able to re-gain the advantage, or at least set things back to status quo.

But if we stick to the thread at hand, you could be in that situation with AMRAAM vs something with R-77 at which point ,should the thread be “nerf R-77”?

Uh… AMRAAM is the weakest off-boresight out of the ARH. MICA and R-77-1 are by far the strongest for firing off-boresight.

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It’s not the ones up big, but the 1 or 2 raffle or Ed that charged through with MP and they are now so close that notching is useless. Also when it comes to off bore sight, it’s not about the missile but the plane or radar. I can’t do it so far in J11A B or J10. Either it’s too slow to get up there or it’s the radar.

Then the Su-30SM and Rafale still hold a massive advantage in that department compared to most “NATO” jets. In its current state, even the Typhoon struggles with maintaining locks as it should.