Imma be real ive never had a SARH datalink get notched/chaffed usually the only reason they get decoyed off is because my actual radar lost lock which is like okay fair enough
Neither the R-27ER or AIM-7P whenever i fire them infact i usually prefer using either of those over a fox 3 for most targets as when i fire them at a target i can more or less guarantee the kill
(less so with the Aim-7 since it can be barrel rolled but you get what i mean right?)
Plus it just makes me feel better as if the missile misses in those cases its clearly obvious why
Meanwhile with fox 3s it honestly just gets so aggravating getting a perfect launch off with one and the target can just decoy it off the second the missile radar goes active
from the migan ef2k video
thats an amraam getting datalink well after going active.
here the missile despite missing is still getting datalink and it actually reaquires later
Okay I tested it and checked sensor replay. You’re right. It gives the impression that radar doesn’t guide properly in terminal datalink because even if the radar is properly locked to the plane in narrow TWS, the missile locks on to the chaff in tracking mode instead of following the plane in IOG+DL and that takes authority over the plane’s radar.
@Panocek@Macron-Spokesman You two were right. The sensor replay does make a difference between IOG+DL and only IOG. I fired a test amraam and immediately turned away, the missile indication writes IOG only.
Pretty sure the current mechanics are purely for balance and counter play otherwise if we went full real, nearly all missiles fired inside the MAR would hit at high altitude.
Not being able to be Tracked doesn’t mean that when illuminated chaff wouldn’t have any impact, it would just be much less severe than it is, since it’s injecting the reflected energy from the seeker off to one side, and so would slightly bias the guidance a conical scan seeker such as the Echo Sparrows.
What would actually make chaff entirely redundant would be if range gates & return edge biasing were actually modeled for missiles that should have them.
Also the way around that would be to actually implement ECM (both podded and integrated) and proper off-board Decoys.
