the aim120d is supposed to be a long range fox 3 missile and yet it behaves like a glorified c-5 honestly just buff the missile and make it so the f15c ge can only hold 8 like it does in real life and the f18e can only carry 10. id rather have less missiles that are more effective rather than just be a missile bus that gets notched so easily its laughable. american top tier air is an absolute joke in this game.
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The 120D we have in game has the exact same “+5” motor that the C-5 has, so no range improvement (actually IRL it technically does get a very slight improvement in rage but only from improvements to the autopilot and lofting). The 120D-3 is the one that gets an improved motor.
yeah the horrible energy retention and bad lofting mechanics was wha i meant be a glorified c-5 i should’ve been more specific about that but yeah as of right now the missile is dog
It’s the best long range Fox-3 in the game wdym by this lol
and yet it gets notched so easily and its energy literally does bleed out so fast. even with gnss to make notching harder if i keep the target painted in my radar if theyre not flying straight at me its utterly useless. its only good for unaware players or ones that dont know how to properly notch.
It has some of the best energy retention out of all top tier Fox-3s
particularly due to GNSS which makes it waste less energy on corrections
Same seeker as every top tier Fox-3 besides MICA.
Not really harder to notch
DL does not make a missile unnotchable, firstly Fox-3s only revert back to IOG+DL when the target is slightly below them, if not, they revert back to just IOG.
Secondly if the enemy notches your radar once you can’t regain datalink, if your radar loses sight of a enemy even for a second you lose the datalink connection (shown by the little dash on top of the target in the radar screen)
crazy, long range Fox-3 sucks in a medium-close range meta
Aside from the phoenixes and mica, all fox-3s in game have the same seeker and are notched just as easily. The phoenix is easier to notch, and the mica is “harder” to notch (tldr is you just need to pop chaff more frequently compared to the rest)
The GNSS isn’t there to make notching harder, its to eliminate IOG drift
Maintaining a lock to keep datalink is only useful when a target is close to the ground. Up high, the missile will go for what its seeker sees, no matter what the datalink is telling it.
That’s how all fox-3s are. They are also good for up close shots where there is no time to enter the notch, since they cannot be easily flared like the IRCCM fox-2s are
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