15km or so u can try the ET, especially on F15s flying up high, they have no MAWS, ERs work as well but just be careful cause u need to guide it the whole way. If u are in the position or u are in downtier u can do it. My friend has also experimented the prop strat of side climbing which works fine as well.
I just got about 10km ET frag in IR mode hms it works, but as you stated the issue is guiding it all the way takes way to long. Having all these modes available is fantastic but requires way too much input in comparison to F-18s, 16s , Rafaels and Euros.
Just to add to this point I used TWS HDN mode for head on engagement 1 frag, then switched to HMD regular 2nd frag, Ir mode got me 3rd (E.T) felt super confident, but F-18c came from behind with an Aim120b and you know how that ended.
Did you just turn slightly and it missed thats been my experience of 120s recently.
As for Typhoons IRST yes it locks nicely…Just dont have any way to leverage it apart from a work around to the terrible radar…Lock in IRST/ Switch to Radar fire 120 and switch back.
I am not a big Aim 120 expert but what I have noticed and that goes for all radar guided missiles is that beyond 12km opposing fighters can just notch pop flares and re engage and your missile has lost track.
I usually wait and fly low climb fast and fire missiles at around the 8km distance then hit the deck while dispensing chaff. In addition, when engaging fighters first time I usually try and maintain speeds of mach1 to Mach 1.1 if possible and fire missile at around those velocities.
Is this an SM or SM2?
No, it’s SM2
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a mish mash like most things in this game
I got the picture from an article about the SM2, with also a video attached to it. Now I don’t know how reliable that was tho.
First don’t call Su-27SM as SM1
Second it wasn’t just trailed, whole late SM batch got FM1 engines years before SM3 appeared
And dual R-77 is just fake in general, as well for 30SM
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you are right, i didnt see the extra antenna below the cockpit
it is a SM2 i didnt see the extra antenna below the cockpit, whic hthe Su-30SM2 has which the normal SM dosent
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They really should change the su27sm to the sm3… will get 2 extra pylons, and for some reason the 27sm already has the sm3 radar and l-150 rwr which I think was only on the sm3, not sure about the l-150 rwr part tho
does it get a better rwr ? that has full 360* coverage like the rafale/eft ?
It still should be ±30 as it’s still l-150
Easier to identify by improved RWR in wing
I thought l-150 is always ±30 degrees
L-150-35, It should be an upgraded version of Pastel.
Post-sanction SMs got IKSh-1M HUD after they ran out of Thales HUD. 30SM2 Gets IKSh-1M HUD by default iirc
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