If missile is fired from above, multipath effect gets nullified. You should combine multipathing with 3-9 and chaff usage for maximum success chance.
Splash damage or the enemy launched a missile from above
Also, you want to be at 30m ralt for best chances when multipathing
40m is too high, 60m is definitely too high
Even so, avoid multipath. It’s a gamble mechanic that relies on what is basically RNG to work.
Learn to notch, when done properly, a notch is 100% reliable unlike multipath
Only consider using MP if the person who is shooting you is also at MP height, otherwise assume it will fail and so rely upon other defensive measures. But even then, there are ways too mitigate MP
Hopefully in the near future, MP will be removed or at least reduced further
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Yep, mp is pretty much only for emergencies such as when you have no chaff or completely messed up your positioning and are getting attacked from too many directions
When forcing a df against someone co-alt you can also try multipath
Yeah, i’ve succesfully used it many times to defend against an incoming missile, but its highly situational. Especially as most of the time my usual alt for anything not a ground attacker is 10k ft+. And even where MP has defeated the missile, I was usually also notching and chaffing at the same time, not worth the risk
Yep, I usually sit at 6-7km (yes, literally) and multipathers are pretty easy to smack nowadays.
Especially with IR missiles or datalinked Fox-3’s with AESA planes
yeah, I do much the same, though does feel like in the past few months something has changed with SARH and ARH in extreme top down, they seem to miss more than they use to
I try to avoid extreme top-down shots
Too extreme and the multipather just notches your missile.
In such situations a 9M/AAM-3 works insanely well
I find 9M can sometimes be more unreliable at the moment, waaaaay too easy to flare.
The only times 9M failed was when the enemy was firing missiles, there were a lot of it signatures in the area (flares, missiles, other planes) or I overestimated how much the missile could pull (it doesn’t pull like an R-73 unfort)
Multipathing is straight up RNG. Doesn’t matter where its fired from either. GL
Because of look down shoot down dude multipath doesnt do anything radars and amraams are very advanced
All missiles, even missiles with primary documentation regarding extremely low engagement altitudes such as CAMM have MP and are all affected equally and set to 60m
The thing about shooting down onto the target is that the missile is still being multipathed, but the target is actually in the way and still gets hit. But they can still miss if the angle is right. To this end, it is possible to loft a missile from low alt, at someone in multipath and get the missile to still hit.
Though it is time for MP to be set on a per missile basis and AMRAAM would at worst be set to 40m, but potentially lower
You forgot about angle gating even if u chaff and notch on terminal phase the missile shuts on seeker off and explodes near the last chaff location it sees (so pretty close)
is maw even useful?
But angle gating isnt multipathing though
in the EFT at least, its quite handy for getting the notch aligned perfectly. Perticuarly useful with the terrible CMs the EFT has
i got the f16i sufa
Which I think is a UV/IR MAWS so less useful for that
guys i did my first secssful notch!!!