SARH Missile Performance Issues

İnconsistent.

Sometimes it hits target on angles and altitudes you cant imagine and sometimes misses one of the easiest shots you can ever see.

Recently took the F-4J out with AIM-7Fs. Generally they were okay but I noticed a few times where they’d either go straight up or to the side. Sometimes they also just flew straight into the ground even though I was well above the altitude where AIM-7Fs begin to multipath.

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Pretty much my experience. Its like 8 out of 10 shots act normally and those two either start to intercept UFOs or start cosplaying deep rock galactic drop pods.

I honestly quit using them entirely. AIM-7 is my goto and it just became so ineffective I am IR only. Which really sucks, it basically invalidates all the time I spent learning radar.

Put that thing on WallStreetBets - a regular old moonboi haha

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Hopefully these will work Another few missiles that seemingly have a beam fixed on the target and do some random off the walls crap. Thought I would try them again tonight. Shots are in ACM - the last shot I had no expectations would hit, was just trying to see if I could get more data.

First and second shots look to get lock, the beam from both the plane and missile are on target. One momentarily loses beam and goes into space. Both fly off randomly in the end though.

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pretty inconsistent, just as before

sometimes the radar keeps track of a target, but the missile will still lose lock for some reason (checked in sensor view)

as for the auto system, i never bothered switching radar modes and always fired in HDN before, so my take would be irrelevent. It’s a bit more reliable than PD HDN only though, i’d say.

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clear sky, target head-on, no countermeasure, perfect lock :

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and i fired a second missile, even closer, same result.

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Notice the missile is still in TRK mode and the green line is still present, meaning it still got a return signal.
Basically same scenario as Calerid’s video above

Version during the recording of the bug was 2.35.0.33

On a sidenote, is there a problem with the mig23 ? I keep losing lock on it when i play SPAA…

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feels like this happens more since 2.35.0.33

Got the case again, i can share the replays if needed :

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Please make a bug report with in game screenshot and clog as well as DxDiag and replay. Thank you.

done here :
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/iR0cewEu88fK

if you need anything more let me know

The fix has been deployed, how is AIM-7 doing now. Are there any issues with 20+ km launched?

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Talk about perfect timing.

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Going to try out the 530D’s later tonight.

I was thinking the same and going to message you haha.

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Thanks for following up @InterFleet. At the hospital, but I’ll check on this as soon as I get the chance. Appreciate you taking the time with this one!

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haven’t played them a lot, but in the few games i did today the missile didn’t seem to make that characteristic 90° turn + lose track.

Thank you for checking this out, highly appreciated !

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I’ve done a bit of testing tonight. The AIM-7 is performing considerably better, like enjoyably so. That being said - I’m still getting the issue.

The worst luck I had is actually on the Matra 530. Right off I had instant maneuver off target. I had one successful hit out of 5 fired. I also had a missile go right at the target in a head on and then last second veer… That’s just annoying haha.

So better! Not entirely fixed yet.

Yep, the 530D’s are pretty much unusable at BVR. They still just fly in a straight line and sometimes does that last second veer you mentioned.

not only that but its just really really draggy i havent had any of my missiles get over mach 3.5 and they hit mach 3.5 for maybe half a second