chuck04 Posted December 7, 2014 Posted December 7, 2014 During a mission one of my 27ER missile fired from su27 searched and it the wingman of the target i had a lock on (on). It is a SARH missile right ? the 27ET is the IR one ? there was 10 to 20 degres between the two target. Maybe it's right, the missile was close when it acquired the wrong target and i was not far behind chasing cold bogey so radar waves could have enough energy. AI target are incredibly passive when locked from close distance within dlz, they react only at launch, sometimes for lunch... to late... i eat it... Another thing, my Sispeo beryosa ringed when a launch from an f18 was concerning another friendly 30 degrés to my azimuth (as viewed from the attacker). Well to put this in relation to the first fact (my 27ER it the wrong target) it's consistent... radar waves seems to be hard to focus.
srky Posted December 9, 2014 Posted December 9, 2014 Well... if this is true than hats off to ED! I don't think in RL radar beam magically stops after reaching the target but rather illuminates a portion of the sky behind and around the target. Maybe enemy wingmen presented himself as a better target in one moment, sometime your missile went into terminal guidance... Also, there is no reason your SPO should not pick up radiation from enemy radar (and interpret it's mode) if you were near enough or in line with your wingman, which you say was a real target. I wish someone more knowledgeable chime in because I'm only guessing here....
chuck04 Posted December 10, 2014 Author Posted December 10, 2014 For the launch alert i thought the beam becomes narrower, 30° is quit big and 5 to 10 km away. But if it is the way it worked then it is very good of course. I'm not complaining, just try to understand the state of the art at the time. And the f18 like the f15 had multi-lock capability which is not the case of the flanker so tactically locking every ennemy in the furball is the right thing to do... keep them busy... while attacking one by one... And for the 27ER, the signal return is affected by distance so it is very likely indeed that such behavior occured. I mean, signal strenght from the wrong bogey was of course weaker but the distance information could still come from the locked bogey. Well i don't know much on those systems but as i'm thinking about it it's the plane radar that "decide" which target to hit, i could imagine that the leader was then unreachable so that missile was reassigned but i doubt that this level is of sophistication is implemented. The leader was breaking left (toward the menace increasing offboresight, the good behavior), the one that i had a lock on while his wingman was breaking right on a more easy path for my missile. That's just that i like to kill leader first, i think it's the more dangerous one.
nickexists Posted December 12, 2014 Posted December 12, 2014 I had the same thing happen once. Target and the wingman that I hit were very close to eachother though.
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