Didn’t know it needed thrust vectoring
Thats how they steer.
That’s funny af that fat thing can do that
(I’ve seen it in person )
It would break up if it tried it at higher speeds. Likely failed right after ignition, or arguably before it since it ignites above the water after being pressured blasted to above the surface.
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sooooooon～
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SRAAMs will be as effective as one of two missiles, with which missile it acts like being chosen at random: the AIM-9B, and the IRIS-T.
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I mean, I’m still waiting for Swingfire to get’s it TVC at all. Yes I’m still salty that they don’t TVC
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MICA is used in surface to air launches from ships and SAMs, it doesn’t spin out like this at all. If UK is having problems with it, then that’s the UK.
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Sure thing MICA never fails ever
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I’ve bug reported them doing that. They only do that when fired at a target closer than 450m. They’ll work fine at any target beyond 500m. Though their current range limits to them about 800-900m
There is also a pending bug report to give them 2km effective range and even all aspects
The MICA missile is regularly, and very often is test launched, there hasn’t been a thrust vectoring failure to date (to my knowledge). It’s in service on all export Mirage 2000-5Fs and Rafales. It’s also in service on 20 different navies on 30 different ships.
The margin for failure is extremely low when it needs to defend ships that are worth billions of dollars.
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500-900m is truely their only effective range, at 1000m they’re still usable
I’ve tried them enough with the GR.1 Harrier
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Yeah, you can eek out a little more range under the right conditions. Just 800m was a self imposed limit, and helped a lot with getting hits on things running away.
Though the hardest bit is SIM. Range finder on hunter helps, but judging ranges on the harrier is a bugger
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i can’t even be bothered
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Trident is American, but go off king.
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Consider me corrected, it is made by Lockheed. I still maintain that it is a mistake to compare two different missiles just because they have thrust vectoring. The Trident missile is much heavier and is launched when submerged underwater, so the thrust vectoring system must operate in far worse conditions.
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none of us can it seems
You think the margin for failure is somehow not as low for nuclear holocaust devices?
Weapons tests generally occur in about as controlled an environment as possible. There’s simply no substitute for a trial by fire, ever.
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Thats just to make sure you don’t TK.
By the time you can read the lettering on their cockpit instruments you are almost in range for an SRAAM.
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when your guns have been on target and within range for quite a bit then you can take the SRAAM
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