I hope you understood what average speed is.
IR version of the KH-25MT which is TV guided.
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“Boost” and “Sustain” are just the terminology for the higher thrust shorter burn time and lower thrust longer burn time phases of the motor.
It doesn’t mean you only have speed increase during the 'booster burn" and the speed will not increase during the “sustainer burn”.
I understand averages, but it’s not defined and I don’t know if they use different formulas
there is just one defintion to calculate the average speed of something
you take the total distance traveled and divide it by the time it took to travel that distance
Sure if we assume they are using the same formula as written, we can figure out the distance.
The brochure states the average speed is 400m/s at 12000m altitude launched from the plane at 450m/s. The angle of launch is 50 degrees. The maximum speed is mach 2.6 or 892m/s. Should we assume that it takes 2 seconds to reach mach 2.6 with that speed sustained for 8 seconds?
40000/749 = 53 seconds…
the brochure states distance as well
and it says 70km max range
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We need to compare it at 70km max range.
But unfortunately in the game its travel distance is capped at 40km. (And StatShark doesn’t allow tweaking those parameters AFAIK)
that is an older brochure
we have a newer one
I totally overlooked that,
Can’t we just average out the max and minimum?
that wouldnt help us at all
It’s possible that the average speed is for a 40km launch.
But it’s also possible that the earlier 40km range figure was understated due to the actual range being classified. (Not unusual for missiles)
Hard to know …
The Kh-38 will not fly in the 300-400 m/s range for the entire flight, it is not a cruise missile with a ramjet engine. Average speed is an average value that depends on the maximum launch distance, launch speed, maximum speed, minimum speed.
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I suspect the difference in wording for “maximum range” and “launch range” between the two brochures probably means the effective range is 40km while the maximum ballistic range is 70km, so the latter range is meaningless when it comes to discussing in game performance
it could also be the time difference of around 10 years between those brochures
Or made up BS for marketing, that’s why i hate modern stuff in the game, if the missile is too problematic for in game balance and has only vague info available then it should not be added at all
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Are you actually hitting the target in your simulations? because to me statshark isnt working for the km38mt
Doesn’t really matter since the traveled distance is 40km