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

The numbers they pulled for the motor are straight up nonsense

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Statcard is worthless and should never be held as a source of truth.

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You are misunderstanding the mechanic. That value is a maximum speed limit, not a guaranteed speed the missile can actually reach. The missile still needs enough thrust, burn time, launch conditions, altitude, and drag performance to get there. So it is not directly related to the stat card speed either; it only caps the missile if it somehow reaches that limit.

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Something with variable thrust depending on pressure/altitude? So at sealevel (101300 Pa) it has the 1.0 multiplier, but at ~13000+ alttiude or so (16300 Pa), it has around 15.8 kN thrust with the 1.22x multiplier.

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huh interesting

2nd dev update phoenix changes, it beats the current live phoenix when the 1.22x thrust multiplier is maxxed out at around 13km alt, for lower altitudes this multiplier gets gradually lower tho

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Impressive. So they updated dev today again? wow

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Thanks for sharing

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Oh my God it’s the best of both worlds

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Who would’ve thought Gaijin could pull this off. Honestly incredible

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@viridiano could you possibly compare new Fakour-90 with new AIM-54A in the same scenario?

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I dont think the real question is if they can, but if they want :v

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fakour is in a different class still

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And that is with the lower thrust and burn time, btw is this modiffier something new? I dont recall seeing it before

Yes it’s new

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Fully expected. I was just curious to see them go

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yes, it was added in the last dev server update and is only used in the phoenixes for now

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meters or feet?

should be meters

That explain why in statshark it shows no difference

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