Vympel R-13M - The Initial Step Forward

Practically all short range missiles was pretty universal like K-5, K-13 and K-60 families. Only medium/long range missiles was specialized in that age.

r13 is not in the game? its a great missile, its like aim-9j

The one in game is R-13M1, not R-13M

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I would like to see R-13M together with MiG-23S as best IR missiles for this plane. Practically MiG-23S would be equivalent to F-4C (sim BR 10.7). USSR need more fighters on tier VI/VII.

I’m not sure how true this is but it seems like it would be tracking FoV (ie. post-launch) and not seeking FoV (looking for target). At least from my test in the earlier post ignoring the funky code stuff that seemed to be what happened. The seeker can track outside of the seeking FoV but is still “caged” while on the rail.
At least that’s how it seemed to me.

Isn’t this, or at least something very similar in game on the MiG-27’s?