maybe it will get passed soon, suggestion mods have been going through a massive backlog of suggestions for like the last few days, 100+ was approved yesterday alone
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The ability the R-77-1 had to be launched through IRST, was that a feature of the missile that allowed it to or was it the OLS-30 on Su-30SM that gave it that ability?
its missing even on the 27sm
there was a bug report about it a while back and the dev respons basically was:
“we know that multiple planes can launch fox3 missiles through the IRST but we dont want to add it for balancing reasons”
i dont have the report tho
They tried several times tho, i think even on live server
they didnt try
it was a bug
that only affected the EF and Su-30SM
Well, imo it is a bit too specific and conveniently looking like a missing functionality to be “just a bug”, but gaijin won’t admit that
It was to fix the annoying issue of radars switching from PD to IR automatically, preventing you to launch ARH missiles, they added a line of code that would let you fire in IR mode, and the result was Flankers and Euros being able to fire when in IRST mode.
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it was a bug because it was something unintentional that happened whenever gaijin tried to fix another issue where you would be switching between radar and irst whenever you tried to fire a radar missile, making it impossible to launch it
originally it was intended to only work when your radar automatically switched to the irst
but then players could just manually switch to the IRST and it worked
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Okay, okay, you convinced me lol
Yep, I think it didn’t provide datalink ofc, but it was an interesting way to fire in “stealth” mode
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Launching missile with radar single target track, then switching to IRST “suspends” datalink - missile loses IOG updates, but aircraft doesn’t break datalink with the missile, as showcased by vertical line above radar/IRST contact. The moment you switch from IRST to radar lock, datalink is restored and updates missile IOG
with the glitch it did provide datalink while on irst lock
Yeah providing dl through irst is completely nonsense lol, glad they removed it
RVV-SD (R-77-1) should have a target acquisition range of 18 km according to its product sheet.
Presumably against a 5m^2 target.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230503200252/http://vympelmkb.com/production/production/upravlyaemye-rakety/aviatsionnaya-upravlyaemaya-raketa-rvv-sd/
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LLM translation of the page;
Spoiler
Characteristics
Tactical and Technical Specifications
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Launch mass, kg | no more than 190 |
| Length, mm | 3710 |
| Calibre, mm | 200 |
| Wingspan, mm | 420 |
| Fin span, mm | 680 |
| Maximum launch range (head-on), km | 110 |
| Minimum launch range (tail-chase), km | 0.3 |
| Warhead type | rod multi-cumulative |
| Warhead mass, kg | 22.5 |
| Guidance system | inertial with radio correction and active radar homing in the terminal phase |
| Maximum seeker acquisition range (head-on), km | 18 |
| Target engagement altitude range, km | 0.02 to 25 |
| Maximum target speed, m/s | 3600 |
| Maximum target g-load | up to 12 |
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are we sure this is R-77M seeker? its stats is worse than R-77-1 seeker dawg
also only 100mm diameter?, R-77-1 seeker is 200mm
really? how?
multiple versions, but idk, it’s not confirmed. It’s just what most sites list it as r-77m seekerhead as it’s the only aesa seekerhead that would realistically fit on r-77m, the other aesa seekerhead is most likely for izd 810
R-77-1 seeker, 20km against 5m2 target
R-77 seeker does 16km against 5m2 target
this seeker does (4th root(5m2/0.003m2))*2km = 12.78km against 5m2 target
that was one of the prototypes of the entire family, those seekers are meant to be upscaled and downscaled according to requirements
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Problem with 9B-1103M is that it went trough bunch of modifications without change in designation. R-77M might have 9B-1103M but it is not necessarily this specific version of 9B-1103M that is shown. There is also a matter of 9B-1103M-150, 9B-1103M-200 and 9B-1103M-350 family and not concrete info of how exactly the family tree of those seekers look and if they are even used or not by domestic Russian missiles or only installed into export versions