Does somebody tested this?
I don’t think current AIM-54s works like this
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Do you have more information about it? What is its provenance and date?
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unless the battery runs out on non maneuvering target its 100% possible
This is what the original Aim-54 was based on. The new one should be better.
Edit: Is 0.15 Mach correct? That seems very slow.
Its “mach.15” meaning 1.15 mach I’d imagine
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GRUMMAN F-14, Vol. 25 by J.P.Stevenson from 1975
ISBN 0-8306-8592-8
A wonderful old book about the early F-14 with an incredible lot of technical information - so much information that back in 1975 (when the book was published) it caused quite a stir in the Grumman Publications Department where none could figure out how the author obtained so much information.
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Might be pretty good for guidance or to add for future reports. Unfortunately the value of this book might be close to 0 for Gaijin, even despite the stir with Grumman.
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I have the pre-censored version with some diagrams that Grumman asked Stevenson to remove. They compare the F-14 to the F4 and other aircraft so it must be pretty accurate. Unfortunately no specific numbers though.
It’s definitely the best F-14 Book you can get.
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It’s a secondary book. You need one more book with a different author and similar information to back it up.
However, there are primary sources with the diagrams of flight profiles.
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unfortunately the tool doesnt allow longer range than 150km and i already got braindamage from people using fake units and having to convert to actually calculate better target speed to match
edit: i forgot the shooter altitude
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Correct but secondary sources are pretty much worthless now, primaries too if they were made before the weapon they are talking of or don’t have an exact scenario proving an efficiency.
Currently, the only way to test this is to load the custom mission with the 256x256 km Tropical Coast map from Nuclear Thunder.
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you’re not gonna see anything on radar but this is very doable, you have extra 40 seconds of guidance left after this target
i guess i can just move the slider until i get the intercept at this range of 72,5 fake units
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Problem is primaries are impossible to use for bug report because of export control or classified.
Although the PAL mode is missing in the game from the AWG-9’s available radar modes, no one can report this because NAVAIR 01-F14AAA-1A, a document from the 1990s or later that could confirm this, is classified.
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Correct, it’s so over :(
From the primary Hughes Aircraft Company documents, “AWG-9 Phoenix Air Superiority Weapon System,” the performance and scenario excerpts were written with the AIM-54 Phoenix already tested and used operationally. You can argue that the lethal hit is noted as the “efficiency” here.
You can look up the documents uploaded by David_Bowie:
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It might be worth it to give it a try, I will help if anybody wanna bother.
Good luck! It will probably be absolutely worth it with the variable thrust.
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After calculation at Mach 1.5 near 50,000 ft, that is roughly 157 seconds, or 2 minutes 37 seconds of missile flight. That gives the Phoenix an average flight speed around Mach 2.9, while its peak speed would be higher.
This doesn’t sound like our in game missile.
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