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AIM-120s do not loft after June OB Patch (actually they do, my bad, no bug)


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Taking 25nm shots in the mid 20s, AIM-120s are flying flat-line trajectories and thus bleeding lots of energy, resulting in ~400 knots in the terminal phase.  Seems that the lofting logic is gone.

 

There also seems to be a guidance problem with the active phase of the radar biting onto things outside of range gate, but I can't verify that yet.  Perhaps the range gate is simply gone as well. Attached is a tacview clip -- tracks to follow.  

no lofting AMRAAMs on June Open Beta Patch.zip


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I've only done 2 tests thus far, but both times the AMRAAM lofted for me, I shot at 35nm and 40nm respectively, perhaps it stops lofting at shorter range? I'll do more testing.

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Marlan, that's very possible.   I've only been getting locks around 28nm because of the look-down penalty, so my go-to tactic has been a short skate from 25nm from the crank.  No loft there, so it's not very viable anymore.

I'll test more after SA map finishes downloading.

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I did another very brief test, shooting a few times once at 28nm and another at 22nm and both times the missile performed for me as I would have expected. At least from what I've seen, lofting seems fine right now.

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Got it sorted -- I have to eat crow on this one -- no bug here.  The contact I was shooting at (what I use for testing purposes) is a MiG-29S.  He must have turned on his jammer as I was shooting. I didn't have pre-launch jamming indications, and by 25nm I must have been at a burn-through range.  In my previous 7 tests, I didn't notice the jamming chevrons through the datalink symbols, but I did on these subsequent tests. So, as expected, the missile is not lofting when it is HOJ.

There's no bug -- I apologize for jumping to conclusions.  Thanks to all the testers who double checked this today, appreciate your work.  Apologies.  

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