Imo, IRCCM are stupidly easy to defeat anyway and should be a lot harder.
Though again. This is a video game. Gen 5 IRs could just be about Kinematic upgrades and not about seeker improvements. Much like theyve done with the C5
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Thanks for catching that. You are right
that’s short sighted tho, better put a PAC-3 MSE under an F15 to rivalise with the incoming R-97 (izd-810)
then why r u complaining about su30 being able to use r73 against f15/18 if its so easy to flare ? after 1-2 turns its a boat n free food for f15/18.
eh, I hope the IRIS will actually get a better seeker and it’s extreme FOV and AoE
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i kinda doubt a superhornet would be 14.3 material, sure it gets better avionics but the flight performance is way worse. aim9x likely wouldn’t change much as afaik the early ones are basically 9ms with TVC. the only way I could see it being 14.3 or higher is if they give it some gimmick like the aim 174 or 120C7
Yeah, it should be better, but im jsut guessing it will be 3 flare defeat rather than 1 most of the time
good example you didn’t choose there
R-73 was seen as the Undefeatable missile that’ll overpower everything and end the game in the WVR area, that’s why the first MiG-29s only got R-60Ms
didn’t turn out to be this way did it?
If the Hornet had a similar type of IR missile as the Su-30SM it might be pretty close in terms of IR shots opportunities, but with AIM-9Ms I think you are right.
But yeah the F-15E is getting gapped by every top tier plane up close regardless.
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Because Aim-9M are just bad, and its boring everyone using the same missile.
It would be nice to finally get historically accuarte weapons on a load of aircraft
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IRIS-T on a Premium F4F when?
So whilst yes, Typhoon getting HOBS would push it ahead by the same amount. I think giving everyone HOBS is just the best way to keep things moving along in terms of balance without jumping things ahead to gen 5 aircraft
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what’s HOBS?
High off boresight
basically being able to shoot a missile without having your nose pointing at the target. Aim-9M I find that rarely works, but ive seen magic IIs and R-73s do 90+° turns
the first mig29s only got r60s cus people tested the r73 in the dev server and freaked out , it was literally impossible to flare and then gaijin had to nerf it to make it balanced. even if IIR missiles are added to those standards they will still be op.
i think they will conduct a public test like how they tested fox3s initially , but for IIR missiles before adding them. i wont be surprised if they are also planning to add them along with 5th gen fighters with their reduced ir signatures.
the public test was just the dev server, like we have it for every update
yea it was an event in the dev server. they tested it 1 update before the fox 3 patch iirc.
no it was not, you just grinded your Fox-3 capable plane on the dev server and went into a match with it
Well… They already have. IRIS-T is already here as a SAM.
Which is what i guess they are doing at the moment. Testing them and tuning them in a public “test” prior to aircraft later this year