Banzaiib Posted May 13, 2019 Posted May 13, 2019 Last night, flying with some homies in the F-18 and F-14, we were engaged by some mig-23's and they fired R-24's at us... there were no launch warnings and no RWR spikes from them locking us. This reminds me of the AIM-7 bug that was recently fixed in which the same thing happened. Anyone else notice this?
Exorcet Posted May 13, 2019 Posted May 13, 2019 R-24R or R-24T? The T is IR. Awaiting: DCS F-15C Win 10 i5-9600KF 4.6 GHz 64 GB RAM RTX2080Ti 11GB -- Win 7 64 i5-6600K 3.6 GHz 32 GB RAM GTX970 4GB -- A-10C, F-5E, Su-27, F-15C, F-14B, F-16C missions in User Files
Banzaiib Posted May 13, 2019 Author Posted May 13, 2019 (edited) R-24R or R-24T? The T is IR. good point... they were R-24R's Edited May 13, 2019 by Banzaiib
Cytarabine Posted May 14, 2019 Posted May 14, 2019 What aspect where they firing from? We’re they firing from outside the detection area of the RWR?
Banzaiib Posted May 14, 2019 Author Posted May 14, 2019 What aspect where they firing from? We’re they firing from outside the detection area of the RWR? About 20 degrees off my nose to the right, co-altitude, I was flying level when he fired... no RWR spike (lock warning), and no launch warning... You can test it yourself in about 90 seconds. Just stick a Mig-23 in a mission with R-24R's on it facing you at 15 miles. You won't get a launch warning... just like when the AIM-7 had the same bug. I guess people don't fight mig-23's very often... I'll just make the mission when I get home from work and submit the bug report with the track file.
Shadow KT Posted May 14, 2019 Posted May 14, 2019 There is a similar thing happening with the MiG-21 radar and its radar missile 'Shadow' Everybody gotta be offended and take it personally now-a-days
Eldur Posted May 16, 2019 Posted May 16, 2019 I've had this happen up sometimes as well flying the Tomcat against the MLD. Always thought they'd pump their Aphids into my nose headon, but after checking the log I had to learn those were indeed the 24Rs - without any launch warning given. They like to do that at ranges of under 2nm though. Maybe it's just too close to get a warning in time... at least it's too close to evade the shot.
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