on the oolder series migs I believe so however in the more modern mig23s I believe it was a selection thing, seen folks sharing docs on another post about it being recommended to be used at 1500 and below with ground htere.
That doesn’t state it had to fall into X catagories to work.
Its a bit shambolic at best though
For what its worth man, I dont think enough people care to put the effort in. Im at the point where Im aware that the thing is gonna be left as is and just need to cope with it D: xd
In ARB theyre difficult but its blessed by the fact theres a quantity of enemies, can just fly through a crowd shitting missiles out
The British weapons thread is pretty good for that, and people like Gunjob has looked at shots for me in the past. But I just cant be bothered to get the clips needed
Aye I know what you mean, but it is a shedload of stuff just to get a slight tweek
Yeah, but at least if we have something to actually point to, it generally helps.
At the moment its a “we feel something isnt quite right with the Skyflash DFs” and most people respond with “skill issue”
Which really isnt helpful
The age old issue, but if there was an “issue” with the sparrow or god forbid the sidewinder the whole community would know about it man.
Yeah…
Ill try compile videos if i can for the skyflash to see if it cant go somehere man worth a shot!
yeah, would be interesting to see, Save the replays too, the sensor view is awesome for seeing exactly what happened
Ill try man! trying to get myself a mig29 as well though so mixing up what im doing
I know. I just dont like how short range they are.
Wild. R24r is probably at least half of mine.
I just use the acm. It tends to lock things well regardless and i dont fire the r24r past 12km so the acm’s 10km range works well enough for me.
cant do sht with it if you cant get a stable radar lock.
Ill show you my last match, 3 kills, 4th dude a mig23ML flying directly towards me, 7km distance, at an upwards angle, my ACM wouldnt lock him, at all, nothing around him, no clutter, nada. Yet his R24 somehow manage to bypass the multipath and pull about 35G s in one go xD
the game definitely has RNG on the missiles it feels.
R-24R are worth about 1.5 maybe 2x Skyflash DFs in my book. They are insanely good and the only way they are even slightly balanced below 12.0 is because of the poor radar and limited count
The missile is good, wont argue that at all, but the major issue is getting it off the fkin rails, know what I mean.
Teh DF skyflash would be a lot better had we actually a decent PD radar on the phantoms that use em too
Doesnt the mld get more modern avionics? That is kinda a big deal in sim at least.
No, its functionally identical in game to the ML apart from it has slats on the wings.
So well itll have a better AoA and instantaneous turn than the MLA, ML it loses more speed…
It has i believe the best RWR out all the floggers.
you are missing peak tbh. you can RELIABLY BVR in mig23ml and mld with r24r. ive gotten 20-30km bvr kills with this missile. chaffing is technically useless if you are going straight. Only strat to beat is to kind of notch and chaff or go cold and chaff to beat the missile
but still id prefer MTI at high alt if i had a option
Sorry what? xD as soon as I lock folks even past 10km they just ping one chaff and the lock breaks.
The missile is more chaff resistant sure but 30km shots? thats AFK folks mate sorry to tell you.
Can do the same with an Aim7 at 20km if theyre afk…
Ive got thousands of games between rank 7 and 8 alone, the R24R aint all that. Don’t get me wrong it isn’t bad, but genuinely its not some super missile
It barely does ever since they buffed the src radar on f4e and mig23 recently. However even if it locks to chaff after launch, your missile will very reliably home into the enemy, considering you don’t break the lock on the chaff and keep the enemy in the general forward direction. Go try it today in a downtier
Ive used both and aced both in the last week…
The radars still break for chaff regularly the difference is the R24R has a chaff filter or something to that effect so once it launches, if the person doesnt change direction the missile in theory should land.
Or i could just shoot the person and then use the 24r when folks try to run away.