You know what i dont get? Assuming that you know how the flare rejection on an AIM9M works, i dont get why you are surprised when a rear aspect shot makes the missile miss.
Both the AIM9M and R73 have advantages and disadvantages.
They have very different use cases.
Due to the nature of their IRCCM systems, the R73 is more of a close range / rear aspect missile, while the AIM9M is more useful in long range shots.
The AIM9M is best used in side-aspect shots, at ranges where the target cannot turn either front/rear aspect to trick the seeker shut-off.
The R73 is best used at close ranges, where its FOV Clamp style IRCCM makes it so that it is very difficult ( but still doable ) to place a flare between the seeker and the Target.
Of course the AIM9M doesn’t behave well if you arent using it in situations where its strong.
530D accelerates faster than 7M while being a bit more maneuverable. Its cruise engine burns for far less however (10s total burn vs 16s) and it’s less aerodynamic it feels like.
Both are very different and yet pretty balanced against each other. ER is totally different though
Here : Mach 1.8 shot at 10 000 m (don’t let the M1.68 fool you, tac view is bugged and can’t display more than 1800 km/h for some reason), reached speed of M4.11. The M5.0 on stat card is pure fantasy, idk where you can even reach that, 15000m maybe, which never happends in a real match anyway
530D rarely tracks at all if fired outside 25 kilometers, just goes in a straight line. It’s drag is MUCH higher, in a straight line the 7M arrives first at its target and faster too. I don’t remember the exact specifics of the test I did with my friend but we launched at eachother at very high altitude, both going constant mach 1 towards eachother and 7M arrived a couple of seconds (maybe 10 seconds) before at mach 2.2~ whilst the 530D was down to mach 1.35~ when it eventually arrived
So soon?
There’d be no other time to add it.
R-77s come with AIM-120A/Bs, their equivalent.
R-77s are so far superior to R-27ER only fools would take R-27ER over R-77.
Range isn’t everything.
Gaijin couldn’t prevent adding AIM-7F/R-27ER because later American aircraft cannot fire AIM-7E-2.
careful not to make Mig unhappy. Joke aside, i neither agree with mig or with you in that regard. R27ER has advantages over R77 and the reverse is obviously true. I think they complete each other rather well.
Are you saying R27ER is equivalent to AIM7M and 530D (in game) ? Who do you think will read this and go “that makes sense” ?
530D isn’t AIM-7M or R-27ER equivalent.
530D is SuperTEMP, R-24R, R-27R, etc equivalent.
And yes, AIM-7F/M is R-27ER’s closest equivalent, it’s actually extremely close to R-27ER in BVR performance, and both are vastly superior to the 50km class SARHs.
Granted, all SARHs are useless cause War Thunder pilots learned what defeating SA radar missiles is.
Time to target only matters for those not paying attention to their RWR.
Speed is irrelevant in BVR, and if you’re WVR you’re using superior IR missiles.
It means that they can happily sit on the missile taking no defensive maneuvers and letting the range decrease (allowing for the missile to have more energy for terminal maneuvers, thus a higher SSPk), at 680m/s (which adds up to 10.2km over said 15 seconds, assuming a maximum range Sparrow shot was taken), before they need to do anything.
And since its SARH guided, once illumination degrades; tracking stops. That puts the Sparrow equipt fighter on the defensive from the start, which further degrades the capabilities of the follow-on shots since it massively inflates the risk profile of allowing the range to close.
Speed gives the missile better range, and serves as a store of energy for defensive maneuvers if anything it is very important to conserve especially if you chose to close into the merge since it gives you options.
speed is very much relevent at BVR, it reduces the enemy’s reaction time, not to mention the maneuverability that goes with it. You also seem to have forgotten about the range part, but surely this is also irrelevent to BVR according to you
With all that being said, who’s to say i’m only talking about BVR ?
speed is the single factor that makes 530D better than 7m at close ranges, for instance
At this point, and with no intention of sounding aggressive, what do you bring to the conversation ? You don’t want to recognize the basics of SARH fighting
R-27ER is not fast enough to go 16km in 5 seconds.
Sorry that I know more about SARH fighting than you; It however isn’t my fault that I have over half a decade of experience doing it and learning from 20+ of the best BVR pilots.
Here, I underlined the SARH platforms I used for you.
Please explain how Cranking or going Cold helps you employ IR missiles? If anything its handing your opponent free angles that they can use to simplify maneuvers and puts the target outside the gimbal limits if done properly so precludes their use entirely.
