Firing AAMRAM into a merge

[dramabeats]

Been noticing a lot of this lately in MP. Often times, when firing an aamram at an enemy with a friendly nearby, if the enemy gets splashed before the missile arrives, the aamram will simply pickup a new target

 

Is this behavior accurate? Shouldn't the 120C be datalinked?

 

Due to this I carry two sparrows on the cheek stations

[razo+r]

It is datalinked upon a certain point at which it will start using it's own radar and go for anything it sees. It should be accurate.

[GGTharos]

What's inaccurate is that the splashed aircraft becomes 'not a Target' as soon as it's splashed.

[Kang]

Depending on the timing it might have fallen out of the search zone?

[dramabeats]

This never happened to me before in F-15s

 

This is hornet specific but was moved out of the f-18 forum by a mod..

[104th_Maverick]

The AMRAAM is not datalinked in DCS and the behaviour you described is accurate and correct.

 

The AMRAAM will target a friendly if it loses lock on the bandit for what ever reason if the friendly is close enough to where the bandit went missing.

 

It's exactly the reason why you should carry Sparrows with you as you mentioned for just such a scenario.

[Harker]

AFAIK, IRL the datalink is maintained until impact, if possible. That way, the chances of incidents like that happening are minimized and the missile can track much better, since it's receiving data both from its own radar and the aircraft's radar. Notching is also more difficult, for the same reason.

[Oceandar]

This never happened to me before in F-15s

 

This is hornet specific but was moved out of the f-18 forum by a mod..

Its not Hornet exclusive. It also happens on all Fox 3 fighter jet. I did team killing numerous times in the Eagle with 120 due to my stupidity for not realizing there were friendlies nearby.