What’s the stats of the R-40 like?
true, maybe PD since the P would be kinda hard to balance sicne you couldnt justify a high enough BR with its worse radar
MiG-31 could have multiple variants
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I’m not super familiar with it if I’m being honest, I just know it’s very long range
off wiki, 8g overload and 80km range but i think it has more range than that, it is a HUGE missile
Doesn’t matter if it’s long range if I can just chaff it away from after launch detection.
8g max overload?
says launch overload, idk if that is same thing
A solid 6gs if you’re lucky
that is true of all missiles, but range is still important.
It was also designed to shoot down Mach 3+ bombers so it’s very fast, kind of like a primitive SARH Fakour-90
It means that the launch aircraft has to pull less than 8 g’s to fire it
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oh ok, thats actually decent
Even a rock can shoot down a Mach 3 bomber if it’s placed in front of it.
tf is that supposed to mean?
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So… The sedjil…
I’m saying that it doesn’t matter how fast the missile is if the aircraft is coming at you at Mach 3
Yeah, kind of forgot about that one
Yeah there’s no point in taking it over the R-27R.
Sure, but then they wouldn’t need to design a new missile for that would they.
Make the basic assumption that it wasn’t for BVR duels with bombers and actually has some chase down ability
What’s the range though for some tail on chase? The AIM-7E Has a max speed of Mach 4 but only after motor burnout and only for a very small space of time.
AIM-7F is better I’ll admit but there’s a lot of things about the R-40 neither of us know and clearly we can’t argue about what we don’t understand.