The AIM-54 Phoenix missile - Technology, History and Performance


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What about the rocket engine of aim-54C to War Thunder?
i have seen a book that says the radar on aim54 has a greater range to activate the seeker.
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Huh I thought the f14 didn’t carry 4 missile in the middle and only 3 🤔🧐😐

Can the aim 54 switch between semi active and active radar homing modes while in flight? I don’t mean datalink when I’m talking about semi active mode. Irl

not really, but it kind of does one until the other. or should remain in SARH only for the most part

Do you know if the 120 does? Just found info that the r-77-1 seeker might be able to do that and was wondering if other fox 3s can too.

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The AAM-4 can, somewhat. I don’t know if it’s a full SARH mode, but it can compare doppler signatures from the host plane bouncing off the target to be better at detecting targets against clutter.

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Yes. The Aim-54s start off in SARH until they go pitbull. In real life, the A model needed to reach pitbull range to exit SARH mode and enter ARH mode. The Aim-54B and C did not have this issue and went into ARH mode on their own.

If you’re asking if they could switch back and forth inflight, not really unless the missile loses lock on the original target and the next target on the F-14s radar is hard locked and outside of the pitbull range. But even that probably isn’t possible.

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Improved motor for the C

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dogfight capabilities

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/research/histories/naval-aviation/Naval%20Aviation%20News/1980/pdf/nd84.pdf

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Mach 5 for the AIM-54C instead of Mach 4.3

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100 NM = 185 Km instead of 150 km

https://weaponsystems.net/system/219-AIM-54+Phoenix

AIM-54C top speed : Mach 5

https://www.forecastinternational.com/archive/disp_old_pdf.cfm?ARC_ID=1066
Speeds of up to Mach 5 again
107 NM or 200 km range

https://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-54.html
Mach 4.3 and Mach 5 speeds

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none of these are new info and most isn’t accurate

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Come with better public ones and what not

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Shiver me timbers

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forecast international has been wrong on so many things over the years that Gaijin refuses to use them as a source for anything. Their real sponsor is JANES.

All relevant sources have already been forwarded and reports have been made on all of the stuff you’ve discussed. In lieu of overwhelming amount of evidence Gaijin has made almost zero changes to the Phoenix and likely won’t.

and no duel plane still

that seem like a pretty absurd take, aim47 is clearly based of the aim4/26 both are american missiles.

iris t and aam 5 are completely unrelated missiles developed by different countries

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Calling it now
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Quotes from F-14A Tomcat RIO:

“Sorry for the delay in responding. Although I never fired the AIM-54 in an exercise (I did launch them in a normal mode) it did have an ACM mode that gave it an active launch and higher maneuverability. So in effect it was like an AMRAAM.”

"Again we were at Top Gun over the desert doing gun defense maneuvers. When we got back to base and they checked the G meter it was pegged at 11.0. My pilot, Sluggo, complained of a bad back for a few days. They had to fly a new plane out from Oceana for us in Miramar. "

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Can yall imagine if we had the biblically accurate Phoenix ingame?

  • Notch tracking perfectly (even with CMs)
  • Great Acceleration
  • High G maneuverability
  • ACM mode
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The DCS missile is not well modeled.

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