F/A-18C Guiding AIM-7s after being destroyed.

[JNelson]

Me and a buddy were testing and noticed that even when the F-18 was killed first it still guided the Aim-7 on to target.

 

At Mission start + 24:36 there is one incident where the AIM-7 impacts my friend 4 seconds after my aircraft is destroyed and mission start + 28:59 where the missile impacted my friend 14 seconds after I am destroyed. We could not reproduce the same result with the matra 530 it seemed to loose lock after death. Both instances above resulted in a spin that should have easily taken the radar out of gimbal limits even if the radar wasn't destroyed.

 

Thanks

 

Track file:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=19LnmmH2w1WZtd9JZCyLKKobVBSd4qlK4

Tacview:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qxJqZ9n6C5r9WCJbJAM83NPCe3pGV7SU

[nighthawk2174]

I've seen this behavior as well on several occasions +1

[Svend_Dellepude]

Same thing in FC3. An old issue. Probably something to do with the radar memory timer.

[JNelson]

Same thing in FC3. An old issue. Probably something to do with the radar memory timer.

 

Yea I known it's been around for a while but it is exacerbated by the increased performance of the AIM-7 and what with all the changes I thought best to bring it up.