Only at very low speed is the R73 unflareable in dogfights in my experience
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Precisely the speed range it is most likely to spiral off into nowhere!
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Magic maybe but the only reason I say that is the sheer amount of platforms that carry 9M
AIM-9M deniers.
I did not say it’s not great, but okay.
Absolutely, especially because having planes with crazy AoA +HMS and Magik 2 / PL-5EII is straight up just better
( I’m not saying the 9M is bad btw)
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You should never judge a missile based on what it’s attached to. If you do that, you are judging the aircraft, not the missile. The Magic II, R-73 (yes, R-73), and PL-5EII are all just as capable as the AIM-9M, just in different ways.
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that’s why I prefer the R-73
the AMRAAM does everything better than the 9Li, there is no point in not shooting it just before the merge unless the enemy is chaffing already but at that point I may just J out because that merge is lost 95/100 times
Ehh not so sure about that one, ive been 1 flared A LOT with the E2s
Eh. The 9M counters notchers like craaaazy, and it’s literally side on where it shines the most.
I like the Magics
it’s just you only ever get 2 of them and then it doesn’t matter how good it is
Idk, I feel R73 is definitely superior.
On an eagle, i will never drop an AMRAAM for a 9M, but if i could drop two for a couple R-73’s? I’d 100% do that.
That’s because FOV narrowing IRCCM works amazingly well within 2km, to the point that it’s nigh unflareable, but is barely better than non-IRCCM missiles beyond 2.5 or so.
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I may add I’m talking from the perspective of an F4F-ICE
I mean we could add Block I AIM-9X but itd basically be undodgeable in the current meta
Afaik 9M IRCCM but R73 flight perf
Not basically, it very much would be. It has MICA levels of pull and a much better IRCCM.
Oh okay. Well on that one 9Lis are defo still quite okay, even without hms.
Next gen IR missiles truly are just terrifying. Even if both sides had ones of equal capability… the gameplay would just suck lol.
You seriously don’t understand the weakness of the planes you fight, nor the strength of your own plane.
This is how we get stupid BS like the Eurofighters will obviously be, but they will still not fix the problem.
Gaijin keep heaping cracked kit onto blufor to cater, but it barely even works since most of the players couldn’t use an F-15E even if it had 10,000 countermeasures, MAWS and AIM-260+AIM-9X-3.
Goodness gracious.
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Good, however not great.