I dont understand why aim 7f and 7m are a mod in the f18 if they are literally the same missile, since monopulse isnt coded in the game, anyone know if there’s a diff b/w both of them?
7F’s uncage is 55, 7M’s uncage is 60. I think that is the only difference.
-FlareFlo’s Missile Documentation
Essentially how offbore a missile can go. Barely any difference but I guess thats enough for Gaijin.
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That’s kind of annoying, having to grind all that just to get an extra 5 degrees in the cage, I think they should remove the 7f as a mod from the f18 all togather
differences of the 2 missiles
Those are transmitter-dependent statistics. If you scroll downwards to the additional notes row you’ll see you’re comparing the “Variant used by F/A-18A, F/A-18A [GBR]” of the AIM-7F and the “Default variant” of the AIM-7M. If you compare it against the AIM-7M used on the F/A-18A (the rightmost AIM-7M column) you’ll see all those statistics are the same except for the gimbal limit.
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Can you explain to me what transmitter power and the other 2 below it mean?
absolutely no idea
idk exactly what it does but i think it affects how well the missile follows the path given to it by the radar, so with lower transmitter power the missile is more likely to go offcourse
in the meantime - what’s the point of having a F/A-18A at the same BR as the F-4EJ Kai?
by comparion: F/A-18A >>>>>>> F-4EJ Kai
the F/A-18A got:
better Radar (AN/APG-65 is about 1.4 times better in range detection and discrimination than AN/APG-66)
better Maneuvrability (the F-4EJ Kai doesn’t have any “Agile Eagle” modifications, present on both F-4E and F-4S)
better Missiles (AIM-7M > AIM-7F)
better Climbrate
better Rollrate
better Rate parameters at any speeds from 300km/h to Mach 1.1 (F-4EJ Kai best Turn Radius is about 2 times the F/A-18A’s one)
better Nose Authority and Instant AoA (at any speed)
really, the F/A-18A should be 12.7 BR already
compression at its finest, the EJ kai is worse than the 18 but cant go down because its better than most of the 12.0’s. But i cant defend why the 18 isnt going up, its very strong at 12.3 and deserves 12.7
F/A-18A should be 12.7 and F/A-18C early should be 13.0,… it’s only because gaijin put the F/18C early at 12.7 that we’re getting compressed,…
13.0 is abit too much, compared to the su33 its blown out of the water in every matchup, again, this is a severe issue of compression where planes even 1 bracket above you are better at almost everything 12.0 - 14.0 needs help
let’s agree to disagree,… as AIM-7P are the closest Fox-1 to be a fox-3 in the whole game.
so to me,… F/A-18C doesn’t match the F-16AJ or similar 12.7 aircrafts,…
Both F/A-18A and F/A-18C early are put 1 step too low with current balance.
we agree that Jet Era is overcompressed (but not only 12.0-14.3 range, the whole 8.7 to 14.3 is)
yet in todays matters (and with the Gaijin BVV_d will to hide their heads under a carpet), those aircraft are too low in BR.
Same goes for the Su-30MK2, which should be 13.7, with current ways Gaijin have been balancing the game,…
they’ve pushed aircraft downwards to make it OP and content most people crying over euro-canards being too op right now,…
That’ll be the R27ER that thing will outrange most fox 3’s in a head to head fight, except the fakour.
I find that the F18C’s are in an ok spot compared to the aircrafts around them, theres no need to increase their br. the F18A on the other hand needs to go up.
Everyone agrees the Su-30MK2 shouldnt be 13.3, even on the dev server, its extremely questionable why gaijin added. They even tried to justify it by reducing the br of the J11
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Basically the reason “why” they’ve done that (for every of the 4 aircrafts we are discussing here,… Su-33 is the less problematic one)
at least we agree on half the F/A-18’s,… but the reason why the A got lower than C early is because of C early (despite being one of the best 12.7 around, if not the best, with up to 10 missiles)
Both are similar to Fox-3 as they can relock easily after a radar lock disruption.
I think the less mods a vehicle has, the higher RP cost it will be for each individual mod. So if the 7F is removed Gaijin will probably just increase the cost for other mods :(
yeah, ive seen this tbh, I guess 7f is better than not having any fox 1s till tier 4