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…
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”
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.
I reported this in the dev… the seeker half angle is much too high.
Would be more range than in game with the report?
Pitbull range which rn is 16 km for all missiles. That one should’ve increased it to 20-22 km iirc
Yep. And the FoV would be massively reduced… half that of MICA…
It’s actually considerably less fuel in less time but the point stands, the burn rate is faster and the thrust is higher on the AIM-120A/B. I don’t know why people expect missiles to just accelerate faster and faster after each iteration, maybe it is R-27R/ER syndrome.
in game its 5 ish kilo’s more fuel. but 14kg heavier overall, which is why the DeltaV basically doesnt change.
It’s because BVR is heavily nerfed by the fact that chaffing is so ridiculously easy. It forces the range down to where TTI is important.
The yellow book does indeed suggest that the WPU-16 motor used on the AIM-120C-5 has about 5 kg more Net Explosive Weight (NEW) than the WPU-6 used on the AIM-120B.
Though I think it has been debated before whether the yellow book is entirely accurate?
I think any issue about the 120C5 not being an improvement probably comes down to 120B being underweight.
16km “pitbull” range is against test specimen of Mig-15. Against larger, 3rd/4th gen airframes seeker often starts tracking target as far as 20-22km away. In general ARH seekers is bit of a schrodringer case, activating itself exactly when game calculates it will start tracking reliably.
Even without going into IRL missile properties, first Dev build version of C5, something that sat in game files since ARH were added was both HOBS improvement and range improvement, latter achieved with serious lofting trajectory out of otherwise sidegrade motor.
They just shouldve decreased drag of C-5, without other changes from first dev.
should have give the live slamraam c-7 dev c-5 stats and modified live c-5 so its actually better than 120A/B other than being side grade
Imo, but it will only nerf Aim-120.
yeah longer lock range would mean that it would pull too much further away so
No, more like… Enemy will get ping on RWR earlier so he can notch it.
