its not a question of the AIM-9 being their favourite, they copy pasted the 9L and give it a temporary seeker shut off with inertial nav and a low smoke motor, OBVIOUSLY its going to work better than a brand new TVC missile codewise, since all the AIM-9 bugs would be ironed out at this point.
Its also not like the R-73 is bad, thats just cope of the highest degree, its still an incredibly powerful missile despite occasional issues.
The 54C on the other hand is almost a complete strict DOWNGRADE compared to the AIM-54A which it replaced. The only thing the C is better in is in the largely irrelevant inertialSpeedDrift which only comes into effect when you arent guiding the missile and it doesnt have a lock, and even then is basicly irrelevant in WT conditions.
They said the reason it wasn’t added (r73) was because it wasn’t finished… for like 6 months. And they add it in a half arsed state. Hard to not be mad at that when you were stuck with an r60 for a year
R-60 Vs 9L wasn’t even a competition , I still hate the TRASH-60M with a passion. It’s Garbage. Can’t even catch an F-16 1.5KM+ and would choose a cigarette to target rather than an afterburning F-14
This is the R-73 thread. The AIM-54 has it’s own thread. On a sidenote, the AIM-54 will be fixed (buffed) when it is appropriate to do so. Doing so now would make it a straight up clubber (on top of the F-16 as well). Likewise, the Magic 2 for France is not yet fixed. They are just waiting for the appropriate time to correct these missiles which have been added to the game and later found to be much more potent than the sources indicated initially.
They’ve been struggling with this missile for a year now and its either a balance decision or they’re just incompetent at missile development. At least that’s the way i see it. I will say that the snail supposedly doesn’t nerf missiles, so that leaves only one real answer…
Maybe just maybe its because Phoenix missiles are the only Fox-3 missiles in game accesible by only nation, have you ever considered that? Of course you didnt.
Current Us top end Jets are already very strong and on top of that you wanted to buff them even more with something that no other country has access.
This amount of muh Us suffer coping is something else truly.
Just make the R-73 non TV make it 45G or something would be more usable than its current state until it is fixed. The thrust vectoring currently is more of a hindrance than help. It either kills all energy or makes the missile spin
The TVC isn’t necessarily the issue so much as it is the high angles of attack it has to achieve. The small turn radius and PID are the issues. They’ve implemented a decent fix and it’s maturing pretty well as they solve issues.