FeistyLemur Posted August 27, 2021 Posted August 27, 2021 So, I tried two missions tonight. And the second I just left now there was some weird shit going on. It was the ready 5 mission for the hornet in the first mission of the default campaign. So I fight the two mig 29's, Aim 7Ms are not hitting anything, I end up getting them both with my aim 9s and my wingman gets shot down. There's what looks like a mig 23 left which makes a run for it so i lock him and am chasing him Something is locking me cause I have a non stop warning tone but theres nothing showing on the EW. Anyway I fire no less than 4 Aim 7ms at him which all miss (maybe I had them set up wrong for target size and whatnot as I'm still figuring it out, not sure). The weird thing is I decide okay ill go to guns im 3 miles away and closing on him but he's doing the crazy ivan going by my gun reticle tracking. Im closing in and I see another dot to the right im closing on thats closer, so i think ok hes got a buddy, so i lock the other target and nose onto it, I start closing then I'm way fast cause im right on it and by the time i realize it poof, i blow up im hit like i collided with it. So I look at the combat log after, it was one of my own Aim 7s, still flying in that direction about 500 feet off the ocean and I literally flew into it and was killed by my own missile. What the fuck?
Hulkbust44 Posted August 27, 2021 Posted August 27, 2021 So, I tried two missions tonight. And the second I just left now there was some weird shit going on. It was the ready 5 mission for the hornet in the first mission of the default campaign. So I fight the two mig 29's, Aim 7Ms are not hitting anything, I end up getting them both with my aim 9s and my wingman gets shot down. There's what looks like a mig 23 left which makes a run for it so i lock him and am chasing him Something is locking me cause I have a non stop warning tone but theres nothing showing on the EW. Anyway I fire no less than 4 Aim 7ms at him which all miss (maybe I had them set up wrong for target size and whatnot as I'm still figuring it out, not sure). The weird thing is I decide okay ill go to guns im 3 miles away and closing on him but he's doing the crazy ivan going by my gun reticle tracking. Im closing in and I see another dot to the right im closing on thats closer, so i think ok hes got a buddy, so i lock the other target and nose onto it, I start closing then I'm way fast cause im right on it and by the time i realize it poof, i blow up im hit like i collided with it. So I look at the combat log after, it was one of my own Aim 7s, still flying in that direction about 500 feet off the ocean and I literally flew into it and was killed by my own missile. What the fuck?Well, that's just tough luck lol.For the sparrows, what was your calculated Rmax, and at what range did you fire. Did you have the MH? If so, was it set to loft?Mobius708
FeistyLemur Posted August 27, 2021 Author Posted August 27, 2021 It was not set to loft, it was not set to anything looking at the hud, It just said 7M whatever It was set as , but I was about 5 miles behind him firing 7Ms at him with him locked up. Both at high speed, I was closing on him but I don't recall the closure rate, I was at full mil and doing about 580ish knots. How the hell did I outrun my own Aim 7 though that seems goofy?
Hulkbust44 Posted August 27, 2021 Posted August 27, 2021 It was not set to loft, it was not set to anything looking at the hud, It just said 7M whatever It was set as , but I was about 5 miles behind him firing 7Ms at him with him locked up. Both at high speed, I was closing on him but I don't recall the closure rate, I was at full mil and doing about 580ish knots. How the hell did I outrun my own Aim 7 though that seems goofy?The missile ran out of energy, and you caught up as your aircraft is under constant power. Did you have any in range cues? SHOOT on HUD or canopy rail? NIRD range marker past the 6 o'clock position counterclockwise?Within Rmax as listed on the stores format with a STT?Mobius708
FeistyLemur Posted August 27, 2021 Author Posted August 27, 2021 I was getting shoot cues on him. I was in wide acquisition ACM mode which auto locked him when I chased him and had him in single target track. It's completely possible it was misconfigured because I don't really know what I'm doing yet with aa mode in the hornet and still learning the plane. If that's proper behavior for the missile as its losing energy I guess, when I switched targets I actually locked the damn missile which I would have been guiding still with my stt lock on him, so maybe that's why it seemed to suddenly fly right in my face, or it just fully ran out of energy. In any case I guess it would be one embarrassing letter home to the family from the Navy. 1
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