as it stands in game, the aim-9x has a similar turn radius compared to most of those
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asraam is represented by a custom missile based off the camm with the correct mass and slightly more drag, so take it with a pinch of salt
mica ir is a normal mica with slightly higher drag, that doesn’t change much the result of this specific test tho
at medium altitudes and speeds with an unaware target in a side aspect you can already get 10km+ kills with the aam-3 relatively consistent, the aim-9x has a very low drag and significantly higher range than the aam-3, which is already a big improvement over all the other similarly sized fox 2s for range. with loal and datalink you can surely get 25km+ kills in high/medium altitudes with the aim-9x on unaware targets in a headon, the only thing preventing you from doing something similar with the aam-3 and r-27et is the lack of loal
this is a mach 1 launch at 1000m, they reached mach 1 at the following ranges:
python 5, mach 1 at 9.3km travelled
aam-3, mach 1 at 9.4km travelled
iris-t, mach 1 at 11.3km travelled
aim-9x, mach 1 at 13.5km travelled
at higher altitudes, missiles that get heavily affected by drag like the asraam and python 5 can get a greater performance improvement than low drag missiles like the iris-t and aim-9x, at least until they reach relevant ranges
drag was significantly improved in real life and in game
f15EX would be usa’s first truly top of the top tier 14.7 we do NOT know if we are getting aim9X with it but what we do know is that it will carry maybe 18 aim120s in game ALSO aim9X WOULD NOT be game breaking as it can pull a bit more (10Gs) than r-73 and in fact its actually in game right now in some SPAA(Maybe aim9x not game breaking would be false its insane but if its in the game and no one cares is it really breaking anything?)
AIM9X may be put first but it would be followed by missiles just as good as it that also are not dodge able but since everyone wants aim9X to come then I hope Gaijin test it in nuke escalation some time before just to make sure everyone is on the same page also gaijin would have to limit the amount of aim9X a f15EX can carry
they don’t have to be near impossible to dodge, all missiles in game are currently underperforming to some degree, there’s no reason they can’t take the AIM-9X and cut its balls off to make it more fair to fight against like they have with every missile in the game so far
it will be better than anything in game and a long with what it will come with it will be mostly fair anyway just not fair to the person getting fired at lol
you sound like you scared of it being added don’t worry EVERY nation will get a missile sort of like this or mostly every nation so what’s the point of adding aim9M copy lets just let Gaijin copy paste f15E to f15EX too btw lol
why are you projecting? i literally don’t care if they add the 9X or not, you’re the one that’s afraid of what its capabilities will be.
the 9M, R-73, AAM-3, and PL-8B already have comparable range to the AIM-9X. at best the AIM-9X will just be a slightly better R-73 with a different iRCCM type.
you literally don’t even have a single fighter aircraft above rank 4, why do you care about toptier missiles so much? you don’t even have experience with AIM-9Bs yet lmao
why do you care or think you know how these missiles will be used? you’ve never even fired a missile at another player yet let alone any gun above 12.7mm in caliber, you have genuinely no idea of what the existing gameplay loop is or how an AIM-9X could be implemented without being overpowered
come back to this discussion when you’ve fired an AIM-9M or R-73 at another player, then we’ll talk about implementation of the AIM-9X
The only real reason I think the 9x would be “crazy” would be LOAL and it’s general HOBS capabilities but it’s not all the differet (just HOBS wise) than r73
LOAL would be a different story
