I’m oppening this thread to discuss the R-77 and R-77-1 fixed grid fins drag coefficients that make these missiles underperform (or match on paper only against the AIM120A/B in the case of the R-77-1). I wish to see these issues fixed and not have to see the R-27EA being added as it is a missile that never left the mockup stage. The energy difference at launch and sheer drag of the R-77 and R-77-1 will make russian aircrafts underperform even more in BVR (especially the Su-27SM, Su-34 and MiG-29SMT).
please remain on topic and civil
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Ok. Seems fair. Unfortunately, gaijin doesn’t give a dam about this or other bug reports for that matter. They can’t balance things out even if they were more or less on the same level irl
It’s always: U.S dominates every metric besides ground or Russia dominates every metric because muh 14 missiles and PESA radar.
I do agree on fixing the R-77s at the cost of all the sukhois losing their dual middle pylon, as those were only used on the Su-35 (afaik). Oh yeah, i forgot about radar. Fixing radars. Every radar. MSA are shit rn and despite every bug report, gaijin doesn’t do anything about them
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Whilst yes gaijin ignores well written bugreprts all the time that is not the case for r77 if you browse the bug report site searching r-77 youll see that the evidence is lacking at best.