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

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

Isn’t the dev server always like this? Less missile wobble and more responsive TVC because the servers are less bogged down than live servers

i have no idea lol, i hope that’s not the case and they actually fixed the r73/mica

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I hate TVC in WT

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last week in air rb i lost all 4 of my r73s trying to kill a eurofighter because the r73 just decided to spin like crazy every time I launched it, needless to say how frustrated I was lol

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I face problems with R-73 all the time.
In my mission R-73 performed like in your video - strange flight trajectory.

Also, it usually misses the target. Look at firing distance and G-numbers.
The missile should kill the target 100%. It was bot, so it did not use flares and used afterburners all the time.
Maybe Gaijin introduced malfunction probability?

R-73 missed obvious kill




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They still haven’t learned how to make an autopilot for a missile.

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