Vympel R-73 'ARCHER' - History, Design, Performance & Discussion

12 years of beta testing

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For what it’s worth, IMO I mostly see R-73’s do that when you launch them when in a climb. The steeper the climb the more likely that they flip into an unrecoverable spin.

R-73 DEV server september R-73 DEV


Someone claimed the r73 we have ingame should not have IRCCM using this image as his source. Stating that the mk 80 seeker doesn’t have “high CCM capabilities”. how valid is this claim ?

R-73 must have IRCCM. Like the R-27ET. But it’s not in the game.

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@WaretaGarasu you had checked before, I wish I did not have to disturb you for this, my apologies.

But i want to ask, is there any update on the R-73 autopilot/thrust vectoring fix? Is it still “being looked at”?

R-73 autopilot and Thrust vectoring broken // Gaijin.net // Issues

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to me this looks like it pulled too much AoA, then lost lock…

It hits much harder shots, this was a simple shot, compared to what it can do in the game

The reason it loses lock is because of the broken autopilot that under or overleads all the time

i gather, but from a problem solving perspective i think this may be the issue

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this is almost certainly >75 degrees

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Because the missile is overleading. It is directly above the target but it’s at that degree.

Why? Cuz the autopilot is broken.

The Magic-2 would have hit this. Not because it turns better, but because it’s autopilot isn’t broken

You can see how gaijin cannot make thrust vectoring work by looking at years of SRAAM videos and reports, before you call it a “you problem”

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They fixed this on the previous dev server, but did not add it to the game

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Hello.
I am sorry for the delay on the reply-
There are still no updates on your report, I nudged your report internally.

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Thank you very much for all the effort, I honestly appreciate it a lot.

Do you think I should close the report and make a new, a lot more detailed report with 10s of different versions and scenarios depicting R-73 failure to work properly? All recorded on video

No, your report is sufficient.

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Your report is fine.

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Was r73 buffed or something? the current r73 can’t do something like that (not in my experience), at least not at mach 0.98 lol

Maybe @Malekitth report finally gone through

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let’s hope they have fixed the low speed performance too, it’s sad when the R73 just spins like crazy without control

I really want the su33, not interested in the Chinese flankers with old rwr