So what do these missile do that is not physically possible? Do a cobra?
Then we need to write a bug report to the Gaijins, let them remove this rocket from the game.
At least SCALP/Storm Shadow and Taurus use it, and probably many others
It’s usually done for 2 reasons, at least the way i understand it :
- make sure your 2 million $/£/€ missile actually hits the target
- avoid collateral damage
GPS can be jammed, and INS loses its accuracy, especially at extreme ranges. The point of IR in this case is realign the trajectory on the intented target, because even if you lost a few meters with INS, the chances of the same pattern (trees, buildings shapes, terrain, roads) existing a few meters away is basically null
AASM IR is more of a budget cruise missile than a CAS weapon tbh. As for KH38 IR, to be fair i don’t know, because little is known about this missile, as this thread shows
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If that’s the case, then why don’t the Gaijins introduce the AGM-169 Joint Common Missile (JCM) into the game
Range up to 28 km, fire and forget, has a high-quality seeker. Can be installed on both helicopters and airplanes.
It needs to be introduced.
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i dont have a dog in this fight but these things look so goofy lol, looks like a childs drawing of a missile :D
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look. it’s probably a laser seeker, but “too small to be an IR seeker” is nonsense. 9X’s staring FPA is smaller.
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apples to oranges
Also for a long range shot against a ground target?
Gajins allergic to mmw weaponry as seens with brimstones
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Not in the slightest lol
very much is
Explain to me exactly how the diameter of the missile matters for a staring fpa, please. In detail. I can explain exactly how it does not but considering you’re going “nuh uh” i would like you to respond first.
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im not saying that though
I think what you are looking at is a ball bearing
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Hugely off topic but Hughes’s AAAM is not really a meteor. It shares the fact that it is powered by a ramjet but is a very different design in countless ways. It’s more an evolution on Phoenix than a MRAAM.
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wait i was confused and now i understand why, i wanted to reply to Demokrat4 response about agm169. not to you
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it’s a matter of telescope magnification and expected FoV. It doesn’t matter if your 256x256 FPA is 5mm x 5mm or 25mm x 25mm(it does matter but not in this way) as long as your telescope, refracting or cassegrain, provides the expected magnification. Which is something that can be accomplished in small OR large packages.
locking onto a heat signature is one thing. but to track a target’s thermal silhouette completely (since its not just an Anti tank weapon but also an anti building weapon), requires a larger seeker
although later we found out that it is infact a thermal seeker mockup. the thing i pointed to earlier is the servo motor side
Heh, IIR technology has become pretty modern in the last decade. The Rafale for exemple uses IIR systems with half spherical FOV for their missile approach and warning system since 2012-2013, and can be seen on the tail. It’s a pretty small device in general, despite having a pretty big lens to get that big FOV.
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The copy pasted the seeker from the AGM65