more joking about the entire patent, to be fair they should use this to fix it even though I hate the R77-1 being better overall than the amraam them boosting it might mean with two strong missiles they will have to buff others such as the PL12’s and AMRAAMs
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From the AIM-120 thread, apparently the reason why the clipped wings on AIM-120C allowed higher agility is because the modified booster and rearranged internals allowed them to make the missile very unstable when fully fueled and more stable when empty. Which kinda makes sense, you’ll need less wing area to make an unstable missile point one way compared to a stable design. Gaijin, of course; does not care for this justification unless it’s spelled out for them on declassified docs (not coming until 2050, probably).
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If you go by patents the AIM-120C has higher structural control due to the radome being integrated into the structure itself and the digital guidance of the WGU-44/b and allows for updating the software specifically for better seeker performance and terminal guidance. The B’s WGU-41/B allows this too. The A does not.
Speaking of this report, where does it say anywhere on that patent that it is specifically about the R-77 missile?
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if you go to the reference that this patent refers to, it shows PBB-AE, which is equal to RVV-AE, which is export r-77. I have attached the magazine in the spoiler
Page 26 of Wings of the Motherland
Crude translation
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You can argue its not technically r-77 because the patent refers to it as a “prototype”… so it can be prototype r-77, but atp it’s just semantics. The patent will still apply to r-77 as it refers to a “range” for its values, and the rvv-ae/r-77 falls within them
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