Strela vs flares?

Game Discussion Realistic Battle
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Why aren’t my flares deceiving the missile? Fr, no matter how much I spam my flares, nothing works. Are they IRCCM?

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Doesn’t it have a manual guidance mode?

3

It’s IR missiles

4

So it doesn’t have a manual guidance?

5

Nope

6

That’s strange. How close were you when it locked and fired?

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Strela is broken, people use it at top tier and it really does well when jets show themselves.

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it uses an optical seeker so it looks for the actual image of a plane just like AGM-65A/B so flares dont affect it

9

I mean. Is there any surprise there?

10

flares should effect the missiles though. if the missiles are IR then that means they are heat seeking. flares would and should put them off

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its not purely IR, as I said it uses an optical mode so flares simply do not affect it

12

And they used to too when it was a lower BR. I saw it when I used to fly the A4E and flares worked just fine as long as you did a high G turn after deploying the flares

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that was before it got its optical seeker or the operator was using IR mode

14

Oi. that’s rough for any enemy planes then

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  • They have IRCCM, namely FoV narrowing: if you aren’t flaring early enough/putting the flares into the seekers view through wonky manoeuvres there’s a decent chance the seeker won’t even see the flares
  • They also have Optical Contrast lock, unless you’re an afterburning Tornado or something the IR all-aspect lock range isn’t that great and if you’re flying high enough the missile will switch guidance method if it can’t get an IR Lock. Flares/IRCM/DIRCM don’t work against optical contrast locks.
16

Totally balanced at 10.0 !!!

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