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As a sidenote, and even if I agree with him on this one, I don’t like that guy still.
He only complains about vehicles or mechanics which doesn’t suit its playstyle. Whenever a vehicle is barely functional on his videos, he immediately claims its little close to undertiered, and yes, that included the MiG-29s.
It’s a walking hyperbole, totally allergic to nuances for clicks.
okay quickly imo the overarching problem remains that the top br is way, wayyy too low, sure the mig-29 is nothing crazy on its own, but it’s so dumb that it can face stuff like the f-111F/C, f104 ASA, early kfir’s and even the mirage F1 to an extent. the R-27ER is legit usuable at 14.7 so making able to face planes with mid flight models that often have a bad rwr is a bit stupid to me (ahem mirage f1, vigen, f-104, f-4’s) all the fox 3 capable aircraft should move up 1 br point to create more breathing room for late fox1 and irccm fox2 stuff.
anyways, mcm annoying
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I wouldn’t get rid of it, but remodel it to its actual RL counterpart.
Guidance is a problem, but fuzing is even bigger problem. Proxy will fuze vs aircraft (ie. ~10m), while the missile is multitude times smaller in size and vs an AIM proxy should fuze at (general consensus) ~3m to match pK vs aircraft, or fuze too soon/late and miss.
TLDR; to match pK vs aircraft, number of missiles launched vs another missile should be 3, in ideal conditions and in practice much more.
I have finally found the source that states that R-77 can destroy air to air missiles.
From vympel themselves (creator of the r-77)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240525200835/https://vympelmkb.com/about/history/#1994
So r-77 is able to target air to air missiles
Do they mention what kind of A2A missiles it can intercept?
I can believe something like it can reliably knock out a Phoenix sized weapon, but something like a MICA is way harder to catch.
I dislike the iron dome meta but I think it is realistic that missiles can track other small missiles or other small fast flying objects, especially at short ranges, just fine.
Now, if the proxy fuses are reliable enough to destroy such targets, I have no clue.
They should just reduce the pk against AA missiles to ~50% and the problem would be solved.
Even with 2vs1 you would only have 75% chance to intercept it. 3vs1 for 87.5%.
So it could stay as a last, desperate attempt, but nothing you will gamble your life on every 5 minutes.
(get rid of this, we want fun, not realism)
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The more realistic it is the more fun it is. Keep iron dome and watch the game mode grow!
Look at all the activity!
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Unfortunately no
Laser fused ones probably don’t have much issue but radar fuses have min/max target speeds in order to work,
For example r-27er radar fuse only works on targets going at least 150km/h to 2600 km/h.
It’s why min speed of targets hit by r-27er 150km/h, it’s not cause it has problems tracking a target below that speed, it’s just that the proxy fuse won’t work
