Thing is if it gets notched and locked on chaff its usually too late because missile had lost most of its energy snd already veered off course enough that it cant hit it by any means anymore
Re searching/locking the target wont really help
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it is but you have to either program the missile to follow the parent of trust it’s sensor with two way you can compare targeting data between the sensors making it more flexible.
it depends on the range it’s at when it gets notched and how it changes trajectory. but yea
I mean with the newer missiles with dual pulse and/or ramjet this would be less of an issue
Why? When missile radar lock is lost:
“ In case of loss on the trajectory, a re-searching of the target is done using this model.”
The model in question:
“After the missile switches to active radar homing, the correction line of the missiles flight data from the carrier continues to form a mathematical model of the target.”
It’s saying that if the missile’s radar loses target track, it goes back to searching for the target using data from the host radar. The missile knows when it loses lock, how else would it know when to fall back on using host radar for correction?
Right now it’s looking like US top tier air is borderline dogshit, only reason they stay afloat somewhat is due to the nature of current RB with increased players making airframe disparities slightly less relevant
The missile does but the host aircraft doesn’t so I was saying we shouldn’t know when the missile loses lock That’s a feature of two way data link I’m not disputing anything about the re-search pattern or anything like that. I’m just saying that that little line that we get on our radar should only be a line and should never tell us anything but the missile is going that direction. Because the nature of One Way datalink is that the missile cannot send information back to the aircraft so no location or lock information from the missile itself would be available.
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That’s fair
You’re right about that btw, and it should be reported. All missiles in-game without two-way datalink should have a system where the radar assumes the flight path of the missile rather than knowing the exact flight path or whether or not that it missed.
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What’s the difference between c-8 and d models
Isn’t C-8 just export name for D model amraam?
No
D has significantly more boost and later C models are basically just electronic and seeker improvements
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did they upgrade propellant or something?
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Idk
D-3 has a bigger motor section and D’s have a HLG (highly loaded grain) so maybe a 10-15% increase in thrust
Just the baseline D model. Later models like D-3 dropped the old nomenclature, so no funny “C-9, C-10” names.
Does it?
This confirms the GPS and two way data linking but no mention of a change in motor;
This also implies the 5" motor is in use with it and the improvements are the data linking and GPS;
And this, improvement come via GPS and DL not motor improvements;
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That second appears to be an erroneous source, the new booster appeared with c5 and not c7
Different sentence, the first section is talking about the motor for 120B, then the sentence changes context;
"Beginning with the AIM-120C-7 the missile has an enhanced motor with an additional 5 inches of propellant and is commonly referred to as the +5 rocket motor. "
So we’re now talking about a change not the previous subject.