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

It was a misread on my end. Don’t pay attention to those numbers

I know, but why u write this me? I wrote about the discrepancy between the data and the message in the post and in the brochure.

Ahhh sorry I’ve replied to the wrong post oops.

It says, the guidance time us 38s, a launch range of 50km would mean the average speed is likely around 900m/s at high altitude/max range, that’s accounting for a 35km travel range, it’s possibly even less.

Yup, as I said in a post above, I misread it, just took the 20 seconds from the previous r-74 battery life. with 38 seconds that makes a lot more sense

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I should really have read this thread before posting ahah, I blame gaijin for making threads open to the last place you were ahaah.

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The R-74M2 has a better engine than the R-73.

No worries!
Btw, 2500 should be read as " Maximum speed of engageable targets - 2500 km/h"

do you have anything of its real range? 30, 40, 50km are just nuts

Any news on ASRAAM?

What missile are you speaking about?

You should ask this in the British weapon thread on here

R-73 and R-74M2

The guy i replied commented about ASRAAM

r-73 max range is 30 km

Spoiler

r-74m2 max range is 50 km

Spoiler

also what do you mean by “real range”