Are you trying to say it’s just better than the 9M? Because I’d say the opposite in most circumstances…
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Your opinion will hardly be considered valuable due to your nickname
Issue you’ll have arguing with yanks is if their missile doesn’t pull twice the overload of the thrust vectoring missiles, they’ll call it bad. In spite of the fact that it pulls entirely good enough for most launches, has flare rejection that actually works, and is smokeless.
73 barely works in most launch aspects, can be 1 tap flared even at point blank, and doesn’t pull remotely enough to use effectively in a dogfight on account of the issues with thrust vectoring in general. But they’ll still claim that 9M is worse. The only time 73 is better is when fighting Americans, funnily enough, given their insistence on keeping their afterburner going whilst flaring.
What’s wrong with my nickname? You thinking it has anything to do with the current discussion is a flaw on your behalf.
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And now you exaggerate in the other direction, I don’t agree it’s that bad either.
It is better than nothing, an improvement on R60 sure. But flying against it, and with it, 9Ms are a hell of a lot more consistent. 73 barely pulls in a dogfight (and if it does pull, spins out 50% of the time), and only really has a hope of pulling adequately to track in 1km launches, any further and the flare rejection fails immediately. At 1km, the flare rejection fails consistently but if they’re stupid it works fine. Opposed to a 9M that has effective flare rejection at most ranges unless the person goes through appropriate procedure. This is leaving out magic, which even in its neutered state (poor flare rejection, limited range compared to reality), still is better than 73.
Shit’s not an exaggeration. 73 is incredibly mediocre compared to the competition.
why lie?
Huh. I only had an R-73 spin out once, and I launch them with no boundaries, if i see a possible opportunity, might as well launch it.
I personally agree that america is better than russia in the aviation industry but in the case of R73 I must say that the americans also accepted this missile it is much better than the aim9m and that is why they produce the aim9x.
Are you still having the same issue? I’m playing sim and it feels the same when I was an ARB a couple months ago, I was getting hits with it Quite often. Now I’m missing head on shots with an A10 or other aircraft That barely maneuver or don’t And sometimes they’re not even flaring and I miss and it’s not a long Distance it’s Under 5km at the most.