This doesn’t sound right also. I doubt that “half” the kills in a lobby is done under 7km. I personally myself don’t try to get within 10km of enemies.
You can check the values in the files. The AIM-120C’s motor has a longer burn time with a slightly weaker thrust but lacks a sustainer, so at the end of the burn, the 120C only has approximately 10 m/s more than the 120A/Bs in terms of total ΔV, thus kinematically no difference, it’s really all about those 40 more seconds of battery life but like I said, that advantage is really irrelevant as of now.
I dont think thats what it says in the text you quoted, and what i said isnt that kills dont happen over 15km, they dont happen
You can’t really depend on the files like that since it may not show other factors, such as reduced drag which the AIM-120C-5 does have.
Have you compared the time-to-target for both missiles at a 40km launch?
That’s fair context to add, but why are we comparing missiles to how well they would do against the sweatiest of sweats instead of the average air rb player?
Makes more sense to compare how missiles do against 95% of the threats you face and not the sweatiest 5% trying to keep their 10 to 1 kill ratio.
i doubt AIM 120D will be anything good still will only pull 30G will probably be only good at range like the C5 thats it
PL-12A will just be PL12 with more range similar to AIM-120A/B and GNSS
meta probably wont shift until PL15 and AIM 120 D late variants
I can already see what things will be said in 4 years from now:
“AIM-260 isn’t good, they nerfed its maneuverability compared to the AIM-120 because Gaijin believes that since it has less fins then it’s worse. Just because it has more range than AIM-120 doesn’t make it good.”
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I was actually a non-believer but yes I compared both missiles in several air frames and the results are always pretty much identical, C5’s booster offers no better long range performance than the A/Bs, again it’s all about battery life, if your missile has more battery life it can live past 50km with proper lofting.
Do jf 17 operate pl-12a or pl15
Because the average player in this game dies bombing with napalm and the above average players knows how to notch reliable-ish, i think that having the top 1% of the game in mind for new stuff is important, since those are the players that can actually tell you how good or bad a missile is.
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Pl15 yes.
Dunno abt pl12