After the last update R73 is unnaturally nerfed and is almost no different from R60.
so that without any maneuver and just one flare is enough to lose the target.
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Really? The R-73 is more potent than the 9M in any case. It pulls good. It’s irccm is good enough. No where near the R60
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The R-73 dosen’t lose the target under 1km its always been like that
9M is kinda doodoo. It tracks well but it doesn’t pull nearly enough. I love the R-73
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Yeah it was like this until two days ago when the update was not given but if you test it now you will see that it has become very bad and it gets lost easily.
I really understand this because I play with su-39 every day.
Until the update two days ago. I was hitting the enemy R73 from the back or side with the su-39 from a distance of 3 km, and it always hit. The enemy could lose it only if he hits a flare or several flares in a row and changes its direction and does not flare again.
If he flared again, the missile would recognize that it was a flare and lock on the enemy, and no matter what he did, the missile would not let him go.
did not happen performs same as before
we have datamines for a reason
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there is your mistake, dont play a SU-39 in arb
Get better at launching the R-73s, nothing has changed on War Thunder’s end.
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I have played almost 700 matches with su-39 and after this much experience when I am again in a position where I used to shoot rockets and it always hits and now I shoot and the enemy does the same thing as before and now the rocket misses and doesn’t hit I understand that there is a change in R73.
Well I have been grinding for the IAR-93B with the Mig-29smt and su-25sm3 and I haven’t noticed any changes maybe its just me.
I don’t know bro maybe it’s just me have this feeling but I highly believe that there has been a change.
The missiles file data is the exact same as before, literally zero things have changed
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nup just a skill issue change on your hand then
there literaly have been no changes, you just are picking your shots worse or your enemies are smarter and flare enough / pull enough
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Damn i wanna get the R73 people in this thread seem to have, cuz so far 9M is miles ahead in its IRCCM and no smoke motor. Doesnt pull?? just properly aim your missile and it hits 99% of the time.
By saying it doesn’t pull nearly enough, i’m comparing it to the R-73. You can pull some insane BS with the R-73 and it always gets a good laugh out of me. After all, games are for fun
I still need to figure out just how close i need to get for the r73’s IRCCM to work. Yesterday, i fired one from 1.5km out behind a jet. He turned, flared, and the r73 lost lock.
I agree and I don’t want to compare WT to DCS but I have to say that at least in DCS even the early r-73’s are quite scary and require proper flaring and engine cut vs WT where you need to get within high-fiving distance for it to not be one flared. The other problem is r-73’s are dog fighting missiles in a meta where the aim-9M is invisible so forcing a dogfight can be difficult especially in sim if you don’t know what your about to merge with and don’t pre flare. Su-27sm at least lets you know if it’s an aim-9M launcher because of its rwr but at the same time you get so little CM’s that you have to limit your pre flaring or else you’ll be out by the second merge
