We all know that on modern aircraft radars, the computer independently calculates the optimal missile launch range and the dash in the middle indicates the so-called “dead zone”, from which we are guaranteed a one hundred percent hit, no matter how the enemy maneuvers and no matter how fast he tries to gain. At least, that’s what I thought until my recent battles in the Aviation Security Service on the Su-27SM. For some reason, it turns out that God forbid 40% of my P-27ER or P-77 reach their targets within the boundaries of this zone, everything else somehow miraculously flies into the milk, even at the tightest distances, when I am already in the middle of this zone. Not so long ago, he fired 5 missiles in this area and none hit the target. I would have uploaded a replay, but I’m too lazy to search. Maybe someone has encountered the same problem or am I doing something wrong?
This is your mistake. The “no-escape zone” guarantees a hit on a non-manoeuvring target, but enemies can still chaff/flare, notch, and multipath in order to defeat your missiles.
In sum, while launching within the no-escape zone your chances to hit the target are maximised, but there is never any 100% guarantee.
Exactly, NEZ is best used as a guide for knowing when your missile is more likely to impact a target.
It does not indicate a guaranteed kill.
Just launch r27ER at 30-40km, release lock and re lock once your missile is near them… This would give much less time to react and imo is better than launching R77. In the first case you would give them ~3-4km to react and they might be in range for their own Fox3s and be busy guiding them via DL, and in case of R77 they would get warning at ~10km and i think usually it gets there faster than R77 so the enemy hasn’t yet launched its own Fox3 making them more ‘aware’
- 40 km launch of R27ER → ~4km react time at apx 20-25~km distance between planes (before or as PPL usually launch fox3)
- 20km R77 launch → 10km react time and they are already notching
It might be different with R77-1 but i am not yet accustomed or feeling good enough about dodging micas