The AIM-120 'AMRAAM' - History, Design, Performance & Discussion

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Shouldn’t it start maneuvers at ~100ms post umbilical disconnect, with the unlocking of the control surface?

We know that the AIM-7 Should begin to maneuver (to face the predicted location of the target at launch) before guidance is initialized(English Bias), or a target is locked.

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It would follow that the AIM-120 is at very least similar.

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I’m not entirely sure, I am simply getting that 0.6s delay from this part of the doc.
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what does AIM-120 need to be fix on anyways, i forgot, someone slide info

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Can you provide examples?

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from what ive read the c-7 is the one that gets hobs
and in game the c7 on the slamramm has way better aoa compared to the c5

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I dont think it does, I think that might be a weapon spreadsheet miss type

because I know it was a copy of C5 on release and dont think it has been changed since

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yes and if you look at the spreadsheet for c5 and 120a/b it is those exact same numbers but moved down a row hence why I think it might be a typo

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this is datamined information so no its not a typo
this is the c7 performance on the slamraam so there is a chance
though seeker performances are the same yes

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It was.

Indeed, apologies, fixed.

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1303

Can’t wait for aim120D to come to the game and be a copy paste of aim120A lol.

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too good. gonna be worser than 120a

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-The blatantly poor Dogfight performance of all AMRAAMs (Delay and fin AOA). Some sources (not really reliable. More of 3rd party) specify some kind of HOBS upgrade for the C-5 although I haven’t found anything official.
-All AIM-120s miss their smokeless motor
-The AIM-120C-5 having a worse acceleration than the AIM-120A/B for some reason
-It’s seeker is weak in general. No changes of seeker power was made through newer models even tho they exist
-Not being able to be launched in “Mad-dog” mode by the SL-AMRAAM, similar to the TAN SAM
-There was an accepted report for the seeker having less range based on some British source iirc

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This is the common sense approach that Gaijin needed. This is a current missile in many airforces arsenal AIM-120C7 is being used in active combat now. But that means we can have 0 hope of finding the capabilities of this system to bug report them.

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Lemme role-play gaijin here:
"Here is your MBDA Meteor (or AIM-120D. Doesn’t matter). The pinnacle of Air-to-Air missiles. This are the specs…

  • it guides itself!
  • it can lock a target!!
  • It has a maximum range!
  • It’s really fast!!!
  • It can maneuver quite a bit
  • It will explode… eventually
  • It will make big boom"
    or
    "-ARH+IOG+DL
  • 160 km (best i can do is 40 km)
  • Mach 4
  • 15 G" etc.
    This would pretty much sum up the future missile experience
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Oh yeah they are going to butcher ASRAAM for the same reason Stinger and Mistral cannot pull G…

No wings…stubby wings = poor turning “Generic Gaijin bug report reviewer”

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If you burn a similar proportion of fuel but with one(120A/B) taking less time… the one with the shorter burn time will accelerate faster.

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I reported this in the dev… the seeker half angle is much too high.

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Would be more range than in game with the report?

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Pitbull range which rn is 16 km for all missiles. That one should’ve increased it to 20-22 km iirc