I would say the min range launch is 2km but at that range you are extremely wide open to a mutual kill… you do not want to be going into a head on with another jet that has radar guided missiles closer than 5km unless there is very good cover to force their misisle to ditch into the ground.
If you want to get kills and survive, you need the enemy to be dead, and you ti be already in a notch position by the time the misisle is within 2km.
Whatever happens, the key is survival and continued survival after the first missile, while ensuring that your missile has the highest possible chance to kill the enemy.
I have even been able to make use of cobra manuvers in a last ditch attempt to notch the missiles whenni have gotten too close, but obviously you should only do that as a last chance.
Because if the Su-27sk is 600kg heavier than the standard the Su-27 then the Su-27 is significantly underperforming in sustained turn:
According to the chart it should do around 4.1G at ~450kph and 1000m, instead it is doing ~3.4G.
Idk if I have missed something or if I am the first doing this test (I think not), but that’s a massive difference.
I’ve loaded 2 R-27R and 2 R-73, put 50% fuel and then added 600kg extra mass because the manual refers to SU-27sk
At 450kph is hovering between 3.7G and 3.8G with 2200kg + 600kg, while it should be doing 4.1.
That’s still a big difference (previous difference of 3.4 instead of 4.1 was massive).
Current difference is still almost 2 seconds time to do a 360 degree turn, aka 1.7 deg/sec turn rate delta
you don’t, you either wait for them to fix the R-77 transonic drag issues, the FM itself or you simply wait for the next update and pray they don’t butcher any non-linear Oswald number airframes
well then I guess I can make a bug report with it… I used a lower amount of fuel weight than what I should have (2200kg vs 2600kg) and the thing still underperforms
