The AIM-120 and AIM-7(and much more missiles) without lock shoot capability

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I notice this game can’t shoot missiles without lock, but in real life they can shoot.
AIM-120 can track and shoot target without lock.
also AIM-7 can shoot and track if aircraft have FLOOD mode.

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LOAL or “lock on after launch” is something missing from most missiles. Its just something that Gaijin didnt want to model, probably for TK reasons.

Aim-9Ls im fairly certain had a LOAL mode, but imagine just randomly firing Aim-9Ls and it just going for whatever target happened to pass in front of their seeker

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I wonder why gaijin did not turn off the teamkill but… yeah that makes sense

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MD’ing 8 AIM-120s in TTAA would be cancerous as hell… Sign me up.

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Would have been nice for MICA as consolation for the missing 30km of range. Could have enabled over the shoulder launches.

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I mean LOAL for most missiles will require more sophisticated systems of FF recognition and lock control mechanism.

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I mean LOAL makes it sound like a real mode, when it was just yeeting it off the rail and hoping.

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I think its intentional that SPAAMRAAMS dont have LOAL capability, it would make the F14 spamming farkours a while ago look like nothing

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Like you can do with AMRAAM, I assume

(There’s still the side of me that wants to entertain the fiction of sticking AMRAAM on Harrier GR.9 and letting them all go maddog)

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AMRAAMs have a LOAL system in the sense that it can acquire a target with the help of the host aircraft after it has been launched. The AIM-9L lacks this.

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