The AIM-9X bl 1 is significantly worse than other IIR missiles in flight performance, and the IIR seekers already in game just have both suspension and FOV narrowing IRCCMs together, so it wouldn’t be overpowered against the other missiles I mentioned.
Truthfully, I don’t disagree. AIM-9X Block 1 lacks datalink like some of the other IIR missiles and I wouldn’t mind seeing it come before other IIRs. But Smin did say we can expect to see all of them coming together.
To my understanding this isn’t true. That’s just dual irccm. IIR seekers in-game are seekers like the SPIKE ER, KH-38MT, AASM, AGM-65D and PARS3 which cannot see flares at all. They have a much more miniscule IFOV of 0.01. They work completely different than something like Python 4 in the files which has both suspension and FOV narrowing.
I think he means the Type 81 SAM is both
Expand on that?
Also the basic variant also completely lacks the revised motor of the Later -9Xs’ so it won’t have more energy than the -9M does now, or accelerate better as they literally came from remanufactured -9M’s that were in government inventory. So non-HOBS related performance is fairly similar, considering that they likely won’t be changing seeker ranges (and anything they do change the -9M should also receive, considering outstanding reports) either so it’s not even an upgrade over a -9D / -9L for a unaware target, and a slight improvement over the -9M for a defensive one due to the higher G-loading available while the motor is burning.
It really doesn’t have much going for it in comparison to other 5th gen IR missiles, since logistics and IOC dates aren’t taken into account for WT purposes.
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It has both forms of IRCCM currently
no f2 this is real
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Okay but is that incorrect? They did a whole devblog about how the seeker actually works. Or is it supposed to be IIR?
Thank you for the smile, Tris.
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I dont know
But I wonder if Shay might be confusing that?
I think it would be fair then to say that AIM-9X Block 2 should be added since if all IIR missiles are coming to top tier aircrafts then it would probably be the worst IIR and not anywhere within the pack if Block 1 is added.
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I think so yes, since Type 81 doesn’t have IIR in-game. Just some IR/Optical thing which AAM-3 is also supposed to get but isn’t at all similar to IIR.
I had not, well I guess forget everything I had said earlier then.
Wasn’t the revised motor on later 9xs just using a different type of propellant or did they actually make changes to the motor itself?
The TC-1L missile on the antelope is supposed to be IIR but it only has suspension track in game
Been quite amusing reading the random posts, i love this time of the update cycle.
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Do you know what it’s going to be already? Or are you just as clueless as the rest of us?
I’m just a regular player too :) So we get notified when you guys do by spamming F5.
Just you can tell when something is obviously fake (if we don’t discount the ‘trusted’ sources)
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What about my Monopoly cards did you like them ? lol
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