AIM-7M Terminal Manueverability Issues

With the release of OB 2.5.6.50321, I have observed an issue where Sparrows are not aggressively maneuvering to intercept targets during the last phase of flight.

The missiles appear to have the necessary energy to intercept, and have not been decoyed by CM notched, or otherwise had the target obscured, but do not appear to be fully utilizing their available energy to pull more than 10Gs. This is manifesting in a series of close misses with missile falling outside of the target's turn circle.

The only successful hits I have seen in this patch have been when the missile has not been required to exceed 4Gs to intercept. I have noticed this behavior in The F-14B, the F/A-18C and the F-15C.

Attached to this post are tracks showing the behavior in missiles launched from an F-14B

AIM-7 Close Miss 1.trk

AIM-7 Close Miss 2.trk

AIM-7 Close Miss 3.trk

Attached to this posts are tracks showing the behavior in missiles fired by an F-15C.

AIM-7 Close Miss 5.trk

AIM-7 Close Miss 6.trk

And finally missiles fired by a Hornet.

AIM-7 Close Miss 7.trk

AIM-7 Close Miss 8.trk

Same here. Plus constant track loss in hornet.

AIM-7 pk seems to be down. Occasionally I see it refuse to pull high g. It looks like it might try to limit g when in a tail chase or when closure velocity is low, I'm not sure. It loses lock constantly though. I might need 4 or more missiles to down one plane, even in the NEZ.

Thanks, reported

Thanks, reported

Sweet, do you mind adding a [REPORTED] tag to this post then, please?