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

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With the massive warhead, improved MPRF seeker and 25G turn, the Aim-54C’s effective range goes from 40km- 200km, all they way down to 16km with the Mk.47 and 9km with the Mk.60. It will technically be able to be outpulled, but considering the massive speed difference and 30m splashzone, that will never happen. It will also become one of the best rear aspect radar missiles in the game, having the tightest notch gate in the game and an insane burn time.

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with a cw seekerhead? press x to doubt. sure it can have tighter notches gates in theory only due to it having a utterly massive diameter, but in practice it will always be limited due to not having a pd radar like its later contemporaries and only cw seekerhead

It’s seeker would be almost identical to the AMRAAM’s seeker. Ingame, I believe it says CW, but the seeker itself is PD.

They’re definitely cw, even the missile spreadsheet says they’re cw

Wait are you talking about irl? Isn’t that only with the 54c+?

54C/Sealed you mean : but that’s ECCM add-ons no?

WGU-11/B from normal 54C is numerical instead of previous analog systems for 54A/B

but the only one website i found speaking of pulse doppler AN/DSQ-26 (radar on-board AIM-54) is nothing trust-worthy.

so @ItzMikeyzWRLD-psn : please provide actual declassified information that leads you to say that AN/DSQ-26 is a Pulse doppler radar

I can’t tell if it’s aim 54c+, aim54eccm/sealed or aim54d. They all seem to exist depending on source, can’t tell which is which

to me there is only:
Aim-54A
Aim-54B
Aim-54C
Aim-54C/Sealed

but the C+ is often used to shorten the “/sealed”

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Have a tight “notch gate” has nothing to do with the antenna’s diameter. Apples to oranges.
Nor its only something that can only be done with pulsed waveforms, this falls under the signals processing part.
Look up the skyflash’s speed gate, ±3kts. CW from a phantom.
You can track target throught the beam with range if the clutter is not in the same bin(s) as the clutter to be short

Also,
If he says the waveform is MPRF, its not a CW…

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Cw is Hprf yes. I was getting confused whether or not he was talking about irl or in game, because in game it is cw. Irl idk

6 knots? In game or irl? Because in game it’s much much large than that. I sincerely doubt it is that small. For example, aim 7s have ±150 knots speed gate irl if I remember right

Cw and HPRF are two different things. One is a continuous waveform and the other is a pulsed one with a high prf(typically with a high duty ratios)

To my knowledge the A is CW( deduced on a phoenix doc a while back) and C transmits H/M Prf.

Irl.
You are confusing the acquisition velocity gate and tracking gate.

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Sadly treated as largely identical in game though.

Okay that makes sense, I was wondering how on earth anything would hit if the speed difference needs to be that big

speed buff for the aim54c to mach 5

Gaijin already knows about the 25G capability and refuses to model it, so dont hold your breath on that. Thats something thats been discussed at length ever since the AIM-54 was added.

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