The AIM-7 Sparrow - History, Design, Performance & Discussion

Currently, those specs are copied & pasted and subjected to change. I will review and verify it with the sources.

Sidenote, I have found something about AIM-7C. Its time to guidance could be improved. Currently, its guidance delay is 2 seconds. It should start moving alive after 3 feet (0.9 m) of travel after firing.

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what changed on the AIM-7 FM?

All AIM-7s and Skyflashes had their flight models and auto pilots completely changed

What does this mean for performance?

Some people are already saying it’s much harder to out roll

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It pulls more than the PL-12 now.

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I dunno if Gaijin has applied the same Changes to the R-27 yet (They said they would).

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Tl:dr from the video

AIM-7s past the E-2 will pull more off the rail than the 27R or ER, and the AIM-7s also lose less speed than the ER.

If I had to guess, the ER is still gonna reach the target MUCH Faster than the AIM-7.

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They haven’t.

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It was only AIM-7 from C to 7M, Sky flash, Sky flash supertemp and Aspide

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7P as well, no?

Let me look again

Nope

Where are you finding what they changed? Datamines?

Ah, alright.

I figured they would’ve, since this was posted yesterday
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Really? So they forgot that the 7P existed? Why does it say “aim_7p_new” on the graphics?

Official patch notes

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It might not have been ready, maybe untill mon or tue we’ll see.

Lemme ask Stona, I’m p sure the 7P uses the same FM as the F/M so it may have just been forgotten.

I tested on statshark and the AIM-7P and the AIM-7M fly exactly the same.

Yeah, it could just be a typo that is missing on accident.

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