Any excuse to get more awful early A2A missiles is fine by me! They’re stupid, silly, and fun! I’d like to get more beam-riding missiles too, like the K-5 and PL-1. Maybe even the Ruhrstahl X-4 and Henschel Hs 298!
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Didn’t they add it in with the new Heinkel two engined heavy dive bomber?
That was the Hs 293 anti-shipping glide bomb. The Hs 298 was Henschel’s air-to-air missile and competitor to the X-4.
Was it any good?
As good as a mid-40s MCLOS A2A missile can be, I suppose
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It was not great, a very good documentary on it here, well worth a watch https://youtu.be/gh-RMI5xi6E?si=jxAQb7bXaKGo5xIS
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i know a whopping nothing on those missiles lol but they should 100% be added
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Added guidance times to all of them, theres a bit of extra info for each missile i might add later
I would love this in game it would give a reason for Gaijin to add in the US delta wing aircraft
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You missed an AIM-26 variant
I know the A isnt there but i dont have full info on it, thus far ive only included the ones i have official documents on
If you can provide anything then be my guest and i will add it
Aim-26A has W54 warhead (250 tons TNT equivalent) and is SARH with radio proxy fuse. Flight performance should be the same as the conventional warhead
in fairness that is what it says, not 100% sure on weight tho which affects a lot
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I mean they probably weigh about the same overall. If there was any notable differences they would have to change the body of the missile to adjust for it, then it wouldn’t be the same as AIM-26A except for warhead like your source says
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I’ll put it in tomorrow, thanks
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Has to be said that a lot of its bad reputation wasn’t from the missile itself, but how it was employed.
-In every purpose-built interceptor using it, the Falcon sat in a nice, enclosed, climate controlled internal weapons bay until it was time to be fired. It never had to deal with dust or pebbles getting kicked up into it, or the freezing cold air for extended periods of time. Reliability in Vietnam was also worsened by the hot and humid air alongside crude maintenance practices, which impacted the Sparrow even more (and led to its ABYSMAL reliability rates). This isn’t the end of it either, as meeting an enemy fighter in Vietnam was also very rare and those Falcons could spend several missions going from hot and humid to freezing cold several times;
-The Falcon-armed interceptors enjoyed a great deal of automation made possible by their intended mission: the Hughes MA-1 FCS would automatically choose the best intercept course (and steer the plane accordingly), pre-align the seeker, cool down the seeker, fire it at the optimal range. In the F-4 this all had to be done manually step by step, and coolant was limited as it was stored in the pylon instead of being provided by the internal weapons bay;
-The AN/APQ-120 in the F-4 also wasn’t made specifically to work with the Falcon (unlike the integrated Hughes FCS) and communication wasn’t exactly 1:1, though I wish I knew more. Lacking all the automation features it of course wasn’t be able to steer or instruct the pilot on the optimal course or when to fire it, and thus was left to whenever the pilot felt that he was in range;
-The impact fuse was chosen for a very specific reason: bombers are big and easy to hit, despite its smaller warhead when compared to Sidewinder, it had a much greater kill probability than it;
-All said and done, it was a much superior missile to the Sidewinder once it was in the air. Faster, greater range, greater G limit, a much superior seeker with limited all-aspect capability (versus none from the Sidewinder) and a limited degree of LOAL possible - the MA-1 could instruct the Falcon to steer to a given heading and elevation and point its seeker at a specific location after launch… within pretty strict limits, to get around the issue of fuselage blanking.
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Well said, given 100% reliability which is something we enjoy in game the missiles will likely be really good even without a proximity fuse
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If I remember right as well, proxy-fuses were surprisingly not as reliable as most think during this point, which is another reason for hit-to-kill
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Infared iirc i have a nice source
equivalent to a 9J apparently, because they acc put effort in and “all aspect” ish from the indium antimony seeker, same kind used in 9L but less advanced
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I asked them before and they said that the info is outdated and they cant trace where its from so its not the greatest source as of right now
Be my guest to ask the swedish national archives or american
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