Implementing 4 as an AAM is just tricky tbf. Better than what others have now, but not better than the things others would demand to counter it.
No doubt if Barak/Ra’am got it, we’d witness a 229 engine scale riot where the US players demand 9X lol.
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And the Kfir C10 :D…
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but regarding the performance of the P5… is it worse when launched from a static platform (Spyder) than when launched from a dynamic one (aircraft)?
Naturally yes. All missiles (and rockets in general) are.
When you’re launching from a plane, the missiles starting velocity is whatever the planes is. So if a Ra’am fires a Python at Mach 1, it’s going to have a lot more energy & range than one which starts at 0kmh off the back of a truck. Because that one is using up a lot of its fuel just catching up to the speed the air launched one started at for ‘free’.
Altitude matters too. Less air resistance up high which enables missiles to fly faster & further. Whereas down in lower denser air, there’s more air resistance, which is bad for speed & range, but good for agility as more air passes over the control surfaces.
A lot of A2A missiles that are converted for SAM usage get extra booster stages strapped to them to make up this difference (in this case - Python 5 MR / Derby MR), but those two are for Spyder MR, not AIO.
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surbaisse you are our lord and savior
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Its explodes in like 7 km, have smoke trail and doesnt come even close to agility of a python missile, so its definitely not a p5. More like strela missile atm.
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Oh ok, but not 81C for now right? At least we know they have removed the placeholder. CSSA5 is still stuck with hn 6 for now, IDK how IRIST is doing.
Merkava has now radar available to guide its sabot rounds?
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jewish space laser
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“nerf” P4 with tracking suspension seeker only, making it caked up 9M. In return, maybe replace AMRAAMs with Derbys/Derbys ER.
This also would make Israeli top aviation bit more unique than just US copypaste with desert camo.
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30 km range … ok
1km/s max speed … ok
20s guidance time … ok … oh wait
20 x 1 = 30 for Gaijin ?
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Another victim of believing stat card
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I ain’t got nothing of worth to add to the conversation fellas, I’m just too excited for Spyder to be keep it to myself lol.
Were so back
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It actually has copy paste stats from the python 4…
It has half the fin aoa and half the wing multiplier than it should
I doubled the fin aoa from 0.22 to 0.44 and the wing multiplier from 1.45 to 3.45 and it works amazing
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We can see that, but I’m not blaming you. I think everyone’s excited about it as many of you have had to wait years. I only had to wait half a year and got tired of the Chaparral so much I can’t imagine what you’ve gone through. We can and I expect the SPYDER to work correctly and in the future, maybe expand SPAA spawns to a broader area. Right now we’ll see more HE than APFSDS.
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Hey, did they determine the type of missile for Spyder? I’m looking forward to it too much, the only drawback now is that the missile type has not yet been determined, this is where I am most worried, I hope that the missile performance of the SPYDER AIO is not inferior to the already released IRIS-T SLM
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It has access to Python-5, I-Derby SR and I-Derby ER
Currently in game it only has the Python-5 (labeled as Type 81) and the air-launched Derby variant
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Does the I-Derby SR just have the improved seeker over the regular derby?
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Yeah pretty much from what I know about it
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