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What rotation ? :huh:

 

Sparrow needs to sink its wings straight up into the Tomcat's fuselage. In other aircraft it's rotated 45 degrees to hang on hardpoints.

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Except for F-18 and F-15 Cheek stations. They're upright there as well. Maybe a few degrees off. Regardless, it's the same missile. I don't think how it's mounted matters much, as long as it can be fired.

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Sparrow needs to sink its wings straight up into the Tomcat's fuselage. In other aircraft it's rotated 45 degrees to hang on hardpoints.

 

Thanks, so US Navy got a specific variant of AIM-7 for Tomcat with a different hanging system ?

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Thanks, so US Navy got a specific variant of AIM-7 for Tomcat with a different hanging system ?

 

 

No, HB had to change a couple of things in the DCS Sparrow to make it fit the hard points. In real life they were the same.

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It a technical DCS thing, the missile ejects opposite the hardpoint attachment, the ones on the sides of the fuselage of the other aircraft have an attachmentpoint rotated about 45 degrees from straight up and in their case that's fine.

 

If we rotated the hardpoint on the F-14 that would make the missiles eject at a 45 degree offset to one direction. That's why we had to change the attachmentpoint on the missile to be on the same side of the missile as one set of wings instead of between them.

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Makes sense

Thanks!

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If we rotated the hardpoint on the F-14 that would make the missiles eject at a 45 degree offset to one direction. That's why we had to change the attachmentpoint on the missile to be on the same side of the missile as one set of wings instead of between them.

OK so how RL Tomcats resolved this with hanging AIM-7s?

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OK so how RL Tomcats resolved this with hanging AIM-7s?

 

It's just different attachment methods and gravity IRL. This is purely a technical DCS thing.

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