It is not as it’s really slow so it’ll reach altitude after others with less speed.
It has awful drag so against any notching enemy it’s still worse than AIM-120.
I mean the ability to carry 12 missiles with 6(i’m not 100 percent sure but I think 6) ARHs is very very good. Even though it isn’t as fast as a F-15E it’s ability to maneuver better than most if not all aircraft and it has the best dogfighting missile. This makes the platform very strong.
It turns worse than a Su-33
I agree with that however at medium ranges it is able to neglect a lot of effectiveness of notching. If that does work they have another 11 missiles to deal with while having there back/ side turned to you
For 1 turn. After one or 2 turns the su-33 turns into a flying pig. The TV on the Su-30 allows it to stay in the fight and kill people more reliably in one turn.
It makes it a great multi role tho
The same applies to any flanker platform, guess what platform the Su-30 is based off
A gimmick that’s more deadly than useful
I mean it really should just be classified as an Anti tank atp. It’s way better at that than killing jets. My things is that when I bring out a spaa I want it to be able to kill jets not tanks.
Also it’ll hopefully be final as to intercept munitions becuase of the new mechanic
It’s based off the flanker platform however with the new maneuver mode and the R-73 it makes it much more dangerous.
It allows it to gain nose Authority which allows it to use its munitions to there full potential.
It bleeds more speed than usual because high AoA turns you into an ever bigger airbrake
Preflaring can literally defeat the 1 turn advantage it barely has
Not at very close ranges, If you get a radar lock and the missile gains a lock while salved no amount of flares will help you within .7km side aspect
Which is what you want in a off boresight dogfighr
Radar slaving doesn’t mean it’s immune to flares, also it’s a circle flight your 0.7km is actually bigger because guess what? missiles needs to turn
Yeah and it also puts you in a really low energy state that gives the enemy an advantage
Never said it did. However the irccm locks onto the aircraft and the aircraft takes up the entire seeker not allowing it to see flares at that range.
Super easy for a thrust vectoring missile
Or it allows you to kill them without them having any chance to kill you.
an FoV of 0.75 degrees at 700m is around (?) to 8m - 9m, that’s big enough to see flares
Ok, then what about at closer ranges? and what happens when the missile comes off the rails does the seeker FOV not get smaller to only see the plane
Any closer and you’re better off using guns because even the R-73 doesn’t pull that hard in a really tight circle
I dog fight with my freinds all the time. If you get slow against it and it points anywhere near you, your fate is sealed. I’ve had it hit me when they are spinning out and I pass them sub 200 meters. The R-73 is a crazy missile and the dogfighting platform it’s on makes it crazy
These dogfights are against the worse Su-27 so I bet fighting the Su30 is way harder.