Dodging missiles

[bones1014]

How on earth do you dodge a missile in the missions? I take about 3 missiles before mine finds a target. It's very discouraging.

[Ktulu2]

I made a manual on BVR, so that should help you with missile evasion : http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=162423

 

Missile defence isn't something you can cover in a few lines.

[DarkFire]

How on earth do you dodge a missile in the missions? I take about 3 missiles before mine finds a target. It's very discouraging.

 

It depends entirely on what you're flying and what's firing missiles at you. If you're trying to dodge SAMs it's important to remember that surface to air missiles (in fact all missiles) have no idea where the ground is, and most SAMs use lead pursuit to intercept their target. One tactic that can be successful is to pull inverted in a steep dive. The SAM will calculate an intercept point that's actually below ground level and will hit the dirt before it manages to intercept you. If you're at high altitude this is obviously more difficult but still possible.

 

If you're talking about A-A missiles, it then depends on whether the missiles are semi-active radar homing (e.g. AIM-7, R-27 or similar), infra-red homing (AIM-9, R-60, R-73 and similar) or active radar homing (AIM-120 and R-77). As it is now homing for SARH missiles isn't very accurate: all you need to do to avoid being hit is to drop a load of chaff. The game calculates chaff effect as a simple percentage so drop enough chaff (probably less than 10 bundles) and all SARH missiles will be decoyed.

 

For avoiding IR missiles, chop your throttle to idle as this will decrease your IR signature, turn in to the missile and drop flares. If you can see the missile coming it's relatively effective.

 

Active radar missiles, especially the AIM-120, are a whole different ball game. The AIM-120, especially the C model, has excellent countermeasure rejection. The best tactic appears to be to put the missile on your 3-9 line, go very low to attempt to hide in ground clutter and dump as much chaff as you can as fast as you can. Even then they're difficult to decoy. Very difficult. The R-77 is somewhat less effective but the principle remains the same.

 

Hope this helps...

[DarkFire]

I made a manual on BVR, so that should help you with missile evasion : http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=162423

 

Missile defence isn't something you can cover in a few lines.

 

Thanks! Somehow I missed that. Really good manual :thumbup:

[bones1014]

Awesome. I'll take a look at it.

[FlightControl]

In case you want to train missile dodging, find this MOOSE class, fully documented and used by many squads already:

The trainer will report a missile has been fired to you and will explore before it hits your plane ...

 

http://flightcontrol-master.github.io/MOOSE/Moose%20Training/Documentation/MissileTrainer.html

 

There is an example mission, which you can find here:

https://github.com/FlightControl-Master/MOOSE/tree/master/Moose%20Test%20Missions/Moose_Test_MISSILETRAINER

 

For a link to the complete MOOSE framework, follow this link here:

http://flightcontrol-master.github.io/MOOSE/

 

kind regards,

Sven

[TWC_Alamo]

Broken links

 

Could you possibly update the links to MissileTrainer Information, if the documentation is still available? Thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

In case you want to train missile dodging, find this MOOSE class, fully documented and used by many squads already:

The trainer will report a missile has been fired to you and will explore before it hits your plane ...

 

http://flightcontrol-master.github.io/MOOSE/Moose%20Training/Documentation/MissileTrainer.html

 

There is an example mission, which you can find here:

https://github.com/FlightControl-Master/MOOSE/tree/master/Moose%20Test%20Missions/Moose_Test_MISSILETRAINER

 

 

kind regards,

Sven