It is much better than a 9E post buff (I count the G nerf as a buff) and it feels like it’s more flare resistant now (I’ve managed to hit turning aircraft that are flaring so much more often)
That said it still needs it’s all aspect capability
Also, question for anyone who has it, now the Red Top is 12g pull, does the Firestreak pull better? I’m confused because the Red Top was an upgraded Firestreak
The firestreak pulls better but that is about all it has over the redtop, other than slightly faster acceleration.
Redtop now keeps energy better and tracks better. Redtop is still an upgrade. You can now hit things in a chase from over 1.5km out.
Yeah I know that. But if the Red Top was an improvement you would want it to pull less?
Pull isnt everything. You lose a little pull but get better everything else.
If you are refering to irl, the red top also had limited all-aspect which still needs to be added. It was also designed to hit heavy bombers so you really didnt need a lot of pull.
I know that I was just confused, thought the Firestreak would be duel plane so would be reduced too
Yes I know that, I said in my earlier post
Even a missile which doesn’t turn itself to multiplane should be given the average lateral acceleration between multiplane and single plane, in this case 14G, which a missile will get on average IRL. This seems a left over from the early days when missiles were introduced heavily nerfed, like the AIM-9B having 6G of lateral acceleration, or the ridiculously long spool up time which was removed from aircraft not so long ago, but not from helicopters.