when the aim-54 changes of engine and smokless engine will be apply?
Probably never, seeing as gaijin seems to have a bone to pick with the AIM-54, F-14, and western tech in general.
4 Likes
Likely next major update or sometime after this major update during the “It’s Fixed!” imo.
1 Like
did you see that? Mig-29 will get a 90-degree notching BVR radar?
I heard something about that this morning, which is interesting news. I believe they might be trying to give AIM-120 to some other nations and leave Russia with the R-27ER… the exception being the Yak-141 which may receive only 2x R-77 in the future. We’ll see if this assumption is correct or not.
One of the potential buffs coming to the AIM-54 is combined plane overload. I believe the missile is forced to use bank-to-turn maneuvering guidance in terminal (active phase) to efficiently hit a target and thus would be capable of a maximum overload of 25G at all times once it is pitbull. Stuff like this may be put off until other fox-3s arrive though (if they’re even considering this).
1 Like
my tatic is fire aim-54, crank falling my plane and go away and missile goes pitbull and him loses the lock, i think the f-14 should receive the VTAS III (AN/AVG-8B), and the f-14A the aim-9l, because the aim-9g/h is kinda worthless in top tier, a new br i think will be needed.
i made a forum of this topic
and a guy made a video of it
Not only does it get a full 180° azimuth radar, it has the smallest notch width at a tiny 24 m/s. The MiG-29 SMT has the best radar in-game (by FAR) the best radar missile in-game (by FAR), the best IR missile in-game, and top 5 flight models. Good thing I’m quitting air RB with this idiotic patch instead of continuing to play this clown balancing game.
Gaijin wasnt even gonna add the 9M until massive outrage got them to reconsider lmao.
1 Like
the RDY, APG-66, APG-68, APG-76, APG-65 have smaller notch widths of 20m/s assuming youre going with the doppler speed width value in the code, all of them also have the same 40m/s main beam notch width APG-68/65/RDY are still overall better than the N010M
well，I have a question. What is AIM-54 seeker is using Illumination signal when it enter the active?I mean active radar activation. It HPRF either or CW？Then, I heard that missiles guided by HPRF have accuracy issues. If AIM54 uses PD HPRF, how did they solve it?
AIM-54A relies on a high PRF track and a large warhead. Smaller missiles that require more precision such as the AIM-120 have both high and medium PRF homing methods. It is said the AIM-54C has better beam-aspect acquisition than the AIM-54A and might have a medium PRF mode as well, they did see it as a flaw that it didn’t have it.
HPRF has accuracy issues at distances iirc, the active radar on a missile is much closer to target and has much better accuracy than guiding a semi-active missile from further distances via HPRF.
Probably the same way the Sparrow did, with velocity & range filters by roughly knowing where the target is (which the data link updates and provides a reference signal for the starting point for the gate(s)) and its speed they should be easy to pick out of ground clutter or otherwise be one of the few things that show up, other than that i would assume conical-scan / monopuse seekers would also help reduce clutter.
With F-14 there is a way to defeat mig-29 and r-27er, but you must need some kind of luck.
see this video
The way to defeat them is: crank falling your plane at the maximum angle possible, you can see the enemy missile on tws, if you see it closing, go way for the other side while the mig-29 is pointing at you while the missile is coming.
the f14A RWR will be nerfed but don’t miss you have a good TWS, just crank and make the missile go pitbull
about a new rwr changes, what distance the aim-54 will apear in rwr?
I think it should appear from the start?
my doubt is if you fire an aim-54 from the tws at 50 km, for example, it’s not a hard lock, it will appear from 16km of distance on rwr? the distance of the missile radar signal?
the launch should be detected
There is no way to detect the launch, unlike SAMs that use SACLOS, where beam is projected towards the target, with the missile staying in the beam, and the beam being detectable, with the Phoenix, ARMAAM, R77 and ect, there is no change in the emission patter of the launching aircraft’s radar. When a phoenix is launched in TWS mode there is nothing to indicate to the target that the missile is actually in the air as any communication with the missile is done through datalink. The target will only get a notification once the phoenix turns on its on-board radar
there is a change , how can on F-14 guild 6 missiles at the same time ? with different channels.
for missiles that use radio command also advanced RWRs will detect the command pulses such as Pansir and Roland and Tanguska , only ADATS can not be detected without MAW and that is because it is laser guided
I am 99.99% sure you’re wrong there chief. Datalink communication is not detectable by RWR. That’s like saying RWR detects VHF radio, the energy something like an AWG-9 outputs (10 kW according to google) is several orders of magnitude higher than the rather pedestrian by comparison 5-50W a radio set puts out
It depends quite how advanced your RWR is. The Tornado RWR was very advanced for the time and could detect datalink signals (along with all sorts of other stuff). Here’s an excerpt from the (many pages long) list of emitters it can identify:
1 Like