The worse maneuverability would probably only aply at higher speeds and at lower speed since the fin aoa wont change it will be a bit better because the motor will be stronger
But thats only if the changes make it to the dev
true.
the close range stuff i was talking about isn’t from maneuverability though, its from the fuse.
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Yeah the fuze takes 4 to 6 second for it to arm
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But these missiles don’t have an FPA seeker.
if customer wanted one there was option for r73 to have fpa seekerhead
Have the Russians ever made such seekers?
izdelyie 300/k-30 was supposed to have one but the project died after the union fell. the izd 300m should have one but its in development rn. so unsure tbh if one actually was produced or not by the russians specifically as the project died in the 90s, maybe one was built maybe one wasn’t
The existence of such technology in the USSR is pure fantasy, considering the state of the Soviet electronics industry.
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Dang, so that’s why they made the 4B while most other countries stuck with regular seekers
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you can see izd 300 in this image behind the guy. this is taken from a vympel museum where no normal person has access to, and as far as i can tell is the only image of it. it has similar seekerhead to the FPA one on the ukrainian brochure. i think its fpa just by looking at it and comparing it to the fpa one on the ukrainian brochure, and its clearly different to any other r-73 or even r-74m2 seekerhead
To be honest, I didn’t understand where to look.
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yeah, so they made one but then got shelved till 2020 when funding freed up.
ngl this info is surprising hard to find, but only because i only speak arabic/bangla/english, and not russian so finding russian info is hard as hell as an english speaker and english being the only relevant language for this kind of stuff
Well, I speak Russian and Ukrainian, but I also couldn’t find much on Google. The seeker from the brochure is a development by the Ukrainian SKB Arsenal from the mid-2000s. It was probably built using foreign components and most likely has nothing to do with Soviet designs.
yeah thats why i said that seekerhead is likely similar to the one on k-30/izd 300, not that it used it… but its clear that izd 300 doesnt use a standard r-73 seekerhead
this you?
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the aim120 was rate for 30/35gs since its inception, maneuverability wasnt a priority cause it was plenty manoeuvrable as it was.
what you said earlier was irrelevant word vomit.
its not up to questioning.
it wont, it pulls next to nothing initially and much the same terminally.
its really not, aim120a doesnt allow the defensive offensive gameplay that is meta at top tier to the same degree, the missile only has an advantage past 20km, and aim120c5 is the same but worse in every way with even more improvements past 20km(which is mostly irrelevant as you can dodge missiles by accident from that far away)
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As per smin on the discussion of advanced IRs (specifically in reference to the P4 and AAM-3) missiles are not intentionally nerfed when implemented.
Now, personally, this confuses me a bit, due to how often missiles come worse then they should be. So it does just seem like gaijin does quite often under evaluate missile performance I guess.
I personally dont beleive that is true in the slightest or at the very least. they ignore bug reports on the ground of plausible deniability. Like AIm-9M lock ranges were reported 3 years ago and still not fixed.
and the likelyhood that all Fox-3s used 100% identical seekers? Yeah right. (and there are reports in for many of them)