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Currenthill thank you for your work. I just wanted to say that I'm glad you started reducing the accuracy of different SAM missiles - it's a good step towards better realism. So thank you for that as well!

@Nightstormregarding shooting yourself with AIM-120D I've tried several things and generally I had to do some balancing and compromise - but this is what worked best for me: t_b = 0.1 t_acc = 2.3 t_marsh = 11.0 loft_factor = 1.8 ==> Reduced it because the higher the loft factor the higher the chance to shoot yourself down or to overshoot when doing long range high alt shots.. active_radar_lock_dist = 30000 ==> I've uncommented this one because otherwise when doing high altitude, long range shots, the missile overshoots because it locks on too late. controller = { boost_start = 0.1, march_start = 2.4, }, I left autopilot delay = 1 sec. And also modified model data and boost/march missile motor data to reflect the shorter delays in missile motor starting. And although I've set it to 0.1s and the motor indeed starts sooner - it's not REALLY 0.1s so the separation is big enough.

Hey @Nightstorm - have you changed/added something new in the single player version zipfile? I'm asking because Windows Defender is constantly preventing me from downloading it because it "detects a virus" and deletes the file immediately after download finishes...

Hi, In the past increasing autopilot delay by about 0.5s helped - otherwise AMRAAMs would just try to loft into your F-22...

I don't think so.

I think he meant what he said - a radar blocker. Like this one:

Well, you suggested that such 'stories' are just crap.

And of course all of them make things up and lie. :music_whistling:

Yeah, sure what can they know? They surely have no clue about operations in which they took part. So either they are just making things up or just lying, right?

Maybe. I just don’t think it’s impossible to detect.

No, I think you don’t get it. When you’re ping by a radar in search mode you actually don’t know where exactly the adversary is. He even might be 100 or more kilometers from you. He might not even be interested in you. He might just scan the space in front of him just in case, or he might be chasing some other targets, or he might just want to know what to avoid. STT tells you that the adversary is close enough to maintain stable lock and is interested in you, that he’s got you in his sight, that right now he’s lost all other tracks and tracks you alone. He can fire anytime now. That’s a BIG difference. I don’t think that’s true. I think it depends on sensitivity of the RWR.

Understand – not the same way. There could be dozens of fighters airborne with TWS on and you get dozens of pings. TWS is just like saying “I’m just looking around”. Each of these fighters might see dozens of contacts on their radar screens and you don’t know which is going to be attacked. When you hard lock somebody it’s like saying “hey, I’m aiming at you, I can shoot you any moment now”

Not really. When you hard lock a target then you warn him that you are close enough to hard lock him and that probably you are preparing/considering attacking him. When you select a target in TWS mode he gets no warning. His RWR only tells him that your radar is active and scanning(but when there are many aircrafts airborne there are a lot of pings coming in).

Even that one picture is enough. But we have Russian sources confirming that picture (diagram from Russian manual). I don't think so buddy. Also, the maximum ranges in that picture of the R-27 goes from 72 to 130 km, compared to the 100 km on the export R-77. I really don't see how the miraculous fact that the AIM-120 outranges them all are present. That’s for different versions of the missile. We are talking about R-27R. R-27ER should have greater range than R-77 or AIM-120.

I'll jump in again with missile ranges (last time I promise). If someone is still not convinced: R-27R http://aeroweb.lucia.it/rap/Vympel/R-27.jpg R-77 http://aeroweb.lucia.it/rap/Vympel/RVV-AE.jpg (25% more than the R-27R) AIM-120 - russian manual + range we've seen on F-16s HUD confirms that AMRAAM has longer legs than R-27R and R-77.