Ignoring the fact that it is much worse than the Aim-9M at any distance and angle outside of perfect rear aspect at less than 1.5km.
Seriously how is it possible that at less than 800m fired at 6 o’clock it was defeated so easily by just 1 pair of flares or just by Spam with afterburner on
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The main problem of the R-73 is the high resistance.She loses speed even when the engine is running
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The R-73 is better than fine. It is pretty good. It’s irccm is (i would say) better than the 9M’s. And it is more useful then the 9M
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You sure it ain’t overcorrection (which gives it wobbliness)?
Nope pretty much the opposit. I used Both missiles the R73s are mostly flared By one Flare. The AIM-9Ms ignore mostly any Flare.
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do you now how the ircm on the r73 works compared to the aim9m?
the r73 uses a very narrow angle seeker
the aim9m turns of tracking wen it sees flares
meaning the aim9m will find you in a snowstorm of magnesium fires if you don’t maneuver out of the way. you need to drop flares and move out of the way for both the missile and the seeker
the r73 might not even see the flares if its close enough or the flares are dropped in the wrong direction.
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Which is… pretty much the thing of 9M. It IRCCM comes in the form of turning off the seaker if it sees flared and continue flying by inertia/enemy’s predicted direction and turns ON then no flares present in it FOV. This is why you can, technically speaking, defeat R-73 (and Magic 2 for that matter) with just few flares while you had to continually flare for 9M
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I know how both missiles work but Even at low Ranges like 600m or something the R73s goes for the next Flare. In my opinion R73s are worse R60s. Their performance is underwhelming
have you used other missiles?
did a bit of digging and the r73 is a bit slower in gaining speed compared to the r60 and has a shorter guidance time of 20 seconds compared to 25 on the r60 but better in any other aspect (ps actually the r73 likes the sun more could be a bug)
but the ircm is the same has the magic 2 and better than the one used on the r27t/et missile
non ircm field of view is 2 for the r27t 5 for the r60 4.5 for the r73 and 2.4 for the magic 2
Your opinion is wrong lmao
IRCCM missiles are better than missiles that will go for the sun if you fly toward it.
And yes that is literally how some were decoyed IRL
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actually the r73 likes the sun more than the r60
He can‘t know that he doesnt have any plane that could carry R60s or R73s respectfully
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Unfortunately, TVC is modeleed like complete trash. TVC just eats into the R-73 and MICA range performance.
The IRCCM seems fine to be, other than when the target is a braindead Gripen pilot.
Or it does kills the missile with the death wobble had it many times on the R73
tried to compare the difference between the r60 and r3s in sun hunting wile there is a difference its pretty small compared to the 7 and 20 angle i was expecting the difference in game seams to be 60% at most. ok scratch that turns out the r60m seeker is more sun resistant than the normal r60 which is on pair with the r73
Wrong
Like objectively wrong
If you fire an R-60 at a plane that is flying into the sun and they drop throttle and fly away the R-60 will follow the sun. If you do the same with the R-73 it will not.
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sadly cant test it so i am gona take your word on it
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That’s ok, it’s just the R-60 has an extremely large very sensitive seeker that tracks everything while the R-73 seeker clamps down so it can only see the engine of the plane and not the sun or flares if you fire the flares the wrong way.
the seeker is still somewhat large 0.75 degrees so a bit less than half of the stock r27t seeker. also is that from the getgo or is there a timer/fov gate condition ?
No, it’s FM