Completely read that wrong my bad, current Fox 3’s are long range and at correct altitudes AIM 120’s can hit at 40km, MICA can hit best within 16km, R77 best within around 8km and same with Derby. AIM 54 and Fakour 90 can hit at 60km and at altitude an R27ER (fox 1 btw)can hit at 30km (just barely)
makes sense, would probably not be balanced at least right now… will it ever be though in your opinion? Like do modern aircraft have better ways to counter those?
Modern IR missiles will never be balanced. 25 km kill radius, having extreme manouverability even at their max ranges, being able to pull a 180° and kill aircraft right behind you, LOAL and datalink letting you shoot at targets too far away to be tracked and being completely unflairable as just a few examples. Basically point and click danger sticks which would force everyone to do BVR unless they want to be deleted by an uncounterable missile.
Modern BVR missiles will have enough range to kill anyone from across the map even if they are going cold, aren’t affected by multipathing and are a lot harder to notch / chaff. Everything about these missiles is completely classefied and would be pure guesswork, though as an example Meteor is theorized to have a max range of over 300 km and a ~100km NEZ whilst burning and traveling at it’s max speed the entire way, only gaining energy more energy the closer it gets to you.
EW systems are one way but thats gonna be the main way to defeat them. Right now stuff like IRIS-T is 100% kill rate so far, you can probably trick it into hitting the ground but we’ll need to see how the snail adds them
Supposedly over a 100% even, as the debris from one cruise missile destroyed by an IRIS-T SLM supposedly destroyed another one, with no missile firing reportedly missing their intended target.
Sincw theres no official stuff i just went of the brochure lol. I think only some SAM versions have been used in actual combat but dont quote me on that
Like how much “fictional” is allowed when comparing tanks and planes? I know Naval depends but eh
Removing the R2Y2s, but keeping the F-16AJ and Ho-Ri.
Removing the Tiger II 105, Panther II, Coelian, but keeping the Ho 229 (I might be dumb with the Ho 229) and the Ostwind II (yes the guns are on the wrong way but we don’t exclude here :p ) Meanwhile Russia keeping the Yak-141 and half of its Naval fleet
And the US having the Skink, despite having nothing to do with the program/design and not being interested in the program as a whole
They’ll have to nerf next gen IR missiles to add them to the game, I believe DCS does the same thing, give them the accurate kinematics but nerf the seeker so it can actually be decoyed.
same for BVR missiles realistic kinematics but keep multipathing and make them reasonably possible to chaff.
At the end of the day it’s the flight performance of these missile that we actually want, so allow the seekers to be adjusted so that the missile can be balanced enough to add to the game