to be fair it wasn’t manoeuvering, the launch was 40+ km so it didn’t need to.
what bothers me with this missile is : low range manoeuvering, with some shots working at less than 2km while my 530D launched a bit earlier missed, i don’t really see any good reason for it to happen.
And the fact that it doesn’t seem to decelerate that much when it’s very fast, which seems a bit strange.
Other than that, the ability of this missile to maneuver doesn’t shock me that much. An ER fired low “only” goes M3.0 - M3.5 (still much more than the usual M2.5 other missiles reach)
what’s for sure is that missile came in game too early. It’s a 1990s missile that came online around the time fox3s were starting to appear. R27R was fine, being a 530D, 7F/M equivalent.
For reference (date of introduction in active service) :
That is the issue it overperforms at close ranges.
It’s not possible with the same limitations as the R27R & 35G maximum overload.
The missiles are also notoriously unreliable & obsolete, the performance in a head on were not much better than the R27R.
Ukrainian sources report on this & highlights the experience of Ethiopian pilots who flew against Mig29s. (The journalist just got the NATO designations mixed but is specifically talking about the ER/ET.)
Ukraine wants nothing to do with the R27 of any variant anymore and mentioned its obsoletion several times & direct reason they need the F-16 and the aim-120.
Because the rocket is flying in space with some kind of angle of attack. And she has to constantly deflect the steering wheels.Since at AoA = 0 its lifting force is zero
You are unable to show any supersonic missile with built in deflection at any of angle of attack like your sketch drawing. if it flies supersonic, they do not need it.
Your logic is flawed, right from the gate.
Lift can be generated AoA = 0. It is already done in subsonic & transonic aircraft especially fighters of the 4th generation.
At the bottom says positive lift at 0°angle of attack.
We don’t have a plane, but a rocket. Whose profile is optimized for supersonic flight. At M=3.5 I even had a negative lift
what does the rocket look like
