Planes firing missiles when downed

yes cause russian mains need those hands held for their negative kd’s

your generation ?
Sadly you sound more like born in 2000+

And flatspin recovery depends pretty much about altitude, plane and pilot.
( And cause of flatspin ofcourse)

Oh you’re older and missing this much braincell? That’s rough.

Yeah its always the russia main. Nothing new

A flatspin caused due to stalling or similar =/= a flatspin caused due to massive damage. Such as after taking a direct hit from a missile.

A pilot in a flatspin is likely not going to be able to deal with more complex tasks such as controlling the radar to cue it onto a target or maintain headtrack on a target to use the HMD to fire a missile.

If there is damage, such as the aircraft is actively on fire and in a flatspin, then that pilot is almost certainly going to eject, and not sit there trying to fire missiles at a target.

Even in cases where the aircraft isnt in a flatspin, but as taken a significant amount of damage, the likelyhood that the pilot will attempt to or even be able to actually fire a missile is pretty slim.

This is entirely a War Thunder thing, especially an AAB/ARB thing.

They did attempt to fix this via:

but it was undone a week or so later.

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Explain it to me how this only affect russia and others ?

Whilst it does occur with a few others. the only aircraft that is truly able to exploit it is the Su-30SM2 thanks to having both very capable HOBS Fox-2s and 3s, and a massive radar gimball.

The aircraft is also very large, so a direct hit doesnt always knock out the pilot, but leaves it in a critical state where it falls from the sky. Still able to fire.

Whilst yes, its not a soviet only issue, the soviets do have the best aircraft to exploit this at top tier by a huge margin.

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