Can someone explain what happened here ? I am behind in understanding how aim-7p works or it got secret ARH seeker. I ve managed to have constant lock on F-20A but somehow my rocket went pitbull to another target. Not weird IOG kill, it tracked F-4 all the way.
Your target went cold and notched the missile. Your friendly didn’t therefore missle go brr.
The missile is SARH+IOG+DL so it will track something infront of his seeker, here you launched it while having lock on the f20 but the f4 took the place of the f20 so the missile kept on the target (while it has switched) the target for your missile is still the same while for you it isn’t , that is IOG
The datalink should “hard-correct” to locked target.
except not , the radar is still sending "locked " so it won’t be asking for new info
Just don’t use AIM-7 sparrows. Sparrows have been nerfed so often that it’s strange how they fly at all. I’ve long removed them from all weapon setups. The F/A-18 has pretty good AIM-9Ls.
AIM-7s aren’t that bad, I consistently get kills w/ the AIM-7F.
I’ve had this situation already happen, the only solution to a missile tracking a wrong target is cancelling lock and relocking but in a short time span it is nearly impossible.
I would also like to know if that is what happened.
They works fine even the E2, just keep the target looked and use it at less than 15km
The IOG+DL should only kick in where the seeker isn’t tracking a target. I’m unsure if it refences the DL for corrections to the desired target like ARH though, if you TWS an ARH to impact it will use the IOG/DL to stay on course (most of the time).
So the DL on 7P isnt “hard-correcting” the missile to locked target, if the lock never gets broken?
I’d have to check with a dev to give you a better answer, let me get back to you.
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Thank you in advance.
So basically, its rare case scenario when i launched it, F-4 was pretty close to F-20A. It could mess with radar lock somehow? But in the other hand 7P is not ARH missile to hard lock a target and track it for itself. It tracks for reflected radar waves from main radar so its basically imposible to this rocket to glide directly to F-4 for no reason with a seeker in TRK for entire flight. It could have with me locking into F-4 then cancelling it and missile flying in IOG+DL in standby for another hard locked target but for entire flights F-20A was hard locked
CC @Gunjob technically (to my knowledge) DL only works during mid-course. During terminal phase the missile switches to SARH.
Missile should not be able to change targets on active lock.
Missile should not be able to change locked target in terminal phase (might be same for mid-course but I do not have clear info on this).
Missile should not be able to go haywire during active lock in any stage.
This should be the case for both AIM7P and R27. What I have found in game is that you can change locked target during terminal phase and the missile can go haywire and track friendly even during active lock. As far as I know tracking should only fail if the defender successfully evade the aggressor and not so much the “missile” as the missile beam rides and updates from the aggressor.
Wait thats how it currently works or how it should work?
Because if its the former i dont believe thats currently the case from my experience with 7Ps.
If its the later then god please yes
How it should work. Most SARH and DL missiles do not do what they are supposed to, to an extent ARH as well but ARH is broken enough without having to give them actual capability.
But IR, SARH & SARH+DL needs rework cause right now, they either do not what they are meant to or they do some mythical over powered stuff.
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