Yeah thats before the buff/seeker nerf im reffering to. Tho its mostly vibes based on how flare resistant seekers have been on AB targets.
Idk if flares needing to ram luminosity is realistic, but it did mean people had to think when flaring at lowers BRs than top tier
Actually randomly thought about it again and there is an easy way to solve the problem
Ofcource it’s math. In particular triangulation
The fov of the r73 is 0.75 degrees once it of the rail
So by using this extremely Easy formula
https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/abb29b1f17555388dd73e0eb3b6554138d7e583c
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For our Observer distance we take the wingspan of a F-16 so 10m
Angle is 180- seeker fov/2 = result
Apply the Strange formula and you get the distance
So for the r27et the 2 degree search fov the seeker will cover the enemy plane at 280meters
For the fov gated r73 it’s 764 Meters but to actually lock the tailpipe of an F-16 the distance needs to come down all the way to 91 Meters
Or in other words the type 81 missile will Only see turbine blades before the r60 even sees the plane properly
Yes? I’m not exactly sure what this is relevant to or referring to. Did you reply to the wrong post?
No? You seemed to have have the most trouble fully understanding what I meant with the seeker angles
In particular how close the missile actually has to go to be close enough to not see flares or other disturbances besides the sun
There must be a serious miscommunication here because I have no idea what you are on about.
I looked through our entire conversation and there was some weird implication that the R-60 was better than the R-73 and we went through that, I than was admittedly wrong about the on the rail FOV of the R-73.
I don’t really understand what you’re trying to tell me here, I’m aware of how the missile seeker views aircraft and the math required to derive that.