Many nations are getting on the realm of +50G thrust-vectored missiles that will turn 180º angles to hit you wherever you find yourself to be, while others are limited to sad basic 30G things that can be evaded by gently turning most of the times, not to mention they won’t even bother to try to track at closer ranges because they just can’t pull tight enough to follow.
This is why I haven’t felt very encouraged to play Eurofighter, hahah. It just feels like a cooler-looking F-16C as long as it’s limited to 9Ms and 120Bs. Sure, it has very nice flight performance- but everyone knows Top Tier is a missile meta. No nice flight performance will help you outturn a MICA that will break the fabric of space and time to hit you.
And I repeat; I am not even asking for Meteor or IRIS-T; I think I would settle even just for AIM-120C, which, as far as I know, is basically a more reliable AIM-120B which can pull up to 40Gs. It’s also the variant Eurofighter ACTUALLY uses as well in real life.
As much as I’d hate to see it, I fully expect them to add a premium/event Tiger 2 to France at some point. The Kungstiger was acquired in France after all.
I do hope you do not mean the C-5, which would just be F-15s and EFs taking off, spamming a few at 60km and going at getting more. Even the C-1 through 4 are not necessary. What needs to happen is tracking algorithms for all missiles need a huge overhaul. The best example I can give of this is the fact you can outroll an AIM-7F/M. All missiles need to have faster and more efficient algorithms, that fixes the deep issue a whole lot more than G pull will. It will also make those 30gs a whole lot more useful and feel like 40gs.
Well, I don’t know of those features, but I assume the mechanics wouldn’t be coming if they were not suited in terms of balance, hahah.
I just want something that’s able to pull a few more Gs than what we’ve had for years… something closer to MICAs, R-73s, etc, in terms of G-pulls.
Maybe the overhaul you mention would fix it, I don’t know. I am not as well versed in aircraft matters as I am when it comes to MBTs, hahah.
It’s just that, currently, I feel like I need to perfectly lead and carefully place the 9M and 120B launches on unaware and unsuspecting targets that are flying in a straight line in order to hit them, while MICAs and R-73s will break the fabrics of space and time to hit their opponents.
Missiles in general could do with a rework, they feel extremely inconsistent at the best of times and either recoding or adjusting would be much appreciated
I still remember the French crying over the possibility of Germany getting some Mirages and Super Etendards. Maybe that’s why the Gaijins backed off with Argentina. I still hope to see at least one Swiss Mirage.
You know when your AIM-120 is pulling Gs and its smoke trail does a really weird hard angle? That’s not server lag, it’s the servers being overloaded and rather than using a small triangle for triangulating it uses a bigger one, which leads to sudden energy draining jerks in the flight path. Servers that are more capable would smoothen the missiles and allow them to hit their max Gs easier and more consistently.
