I dont mind if the R-27ER has its advantages. I’m sure it does have some, and am in no way surprised to see it out accelerate and outpull the AIM-54C. It likely even out speeds it at most lower alt, lower speed, lower range launches where the 54C doesn’t get to utilize its trajectory shaping to the fullest.
My problem is there there is a relatively large wealth of sources out there, all either outright stating, or strongly alluding to the fact that the AIM-54C is underperforming in (now that we can throw in the WGU-29 as likely underperforming) effectively ALL categories, and yet were being strung along by gaijin, pretending all this info is wrong and gaijin totally has everything right and the AIM-54C is a “bad” missile.
We have proven the MK47 mod 0 and MK60 are equivalent motors with differences only in grain patterns. Both use CTPB… so no. The alleged test engineer is a fake and is making stuff up in whatever source you’re citing.
Yeah i mean it was “designed” for high alt nuclear bombers. BUT during the iran iraq war, iran demonstrated the extreme capability of the Aim-54 and how its extremely lethal against a mig-21 or that size target
It should come with the Mk47 mod 1 though, since it is simply a better motor and the one it was intended to come with. The “standard” AIM-54C would be with Mk47 mod 1.
-edit- I actually found proof of a controlled fragmentation technique for AIM-54C warhead. I will rescind my previous statement about it being no different than AIM-54A.
@MythicPi Drop your pretense that you can’t see what I’m saying so you can respond to the information provided. @ACOMETS Seems there was a method for focusing the direction of the internal blast on expanding rod warheads.
A lot of the more modern fox 2s and fox 3s are supposed to have this but no clue if they’ll ever implement this. Another term for it is focused splinters.
I gave all the parameters in the original post. Top speed achieved was slightly above 1300m/s. I also gave all the launch conditions, and all the impact conditions. Not my problem if you cant read them.
There also isn’t a single pilot account that I know of saying the 54 is bad against fighter sized maneuvering targets, and as I stated earlier (still need to find the source) sub 20mi shots were considered “very good” shots to take against maneuvering fighters according to the Top Gun school.
Exactly! So what exactly needs to be changed about the Aim-54
We need to Compile all the Specific Points on whats wrong and how to fix. Plus all of the data to back up these claims. Then we gotta present this to the Developers so that it can be changed.
