Off topic, i’ll hide it :
Mistral 3 has been in service since the middle of the 2010s, the one that got qualified a few days ago was an increment, namely the one MBDA calls “3rd step”, or as they’d say on the other side of the channel “Mistral 3 Mark 3” :
But Igla cant do that. So… clearly a marketing lie
it simply never gets old… X)
“Rocket motor shall be able to communicate to the misisle a velocity increment of about 1,000m/s in less than 3.5 seconds”.
The rocket motor of the missile must make the missile accelerate to about 1,000m/s in less than 3.5 seconds essentially.
That is not a direct translation at all. You’ve changed the meaning ahaah.
He changed “adding 1000 m/s to the speed” to “pushing the speed to 1000 m/s” basically, which doesn’t change a lot as it means the missile gets at least to 1000 m/s in 3.5 seconds in both sentences
How so?
DeltaV is different to the idea of “the missile gains 1000m/s”
Can you please develop? I don’t know exactly what this deltaV thing means but physics class makes me think it’s a velocity difference/variation?
delta v simply means change in velocity, in this came over time
Well in that case it isn’t different from “gains 1000 m/s” innit?
Well that’s basically what I said but in a more clearly defined way if I’m not mistaken
DeltaV is a theoretical value, derived from a missiles propellent type, overall mass and fuel mass.
It does not account for drag. That is the discrepancy here.
Oh that makes complete sense thank you
No worries :)
I think his pants got blown off
Because it still has to fit certain range requirements. Say you have one missile with 50km range, and 5 seconds burntime. And then you invent another missile with 50km range but make the burntime 3 seconds, it still would have the same range just accelerates quicker although could also decelerate quicker in the tail-end of its range, but in the medium ranges or the ranges where it would be most useful, the time-to-target would decrease drastically.
Its possible though that the MICA’s dogfighting performance would be drastically impacted since it would no longer be able to thrust-vector for nearly 7 seconds, since thrust-vectoring relies on the missile burning.
So where are people getting the missile diameter values from? Specifically the game values?
I don’t see the diameter listed in game.
