MATRA R530 IR - how to use?

[audiodistortion]

The EM is working fine, how do I use the IR variant? the buttons are selected and master on - what am I missing?

 

 

[Rongor]

you need to aim and shoot.

[Rhinozherous]

I think it works like the sidewinders... Put the target at the upper edge of the HUD Glass to get tone and fire.

[audiodistortion]

, tried that - no tone - they just won't fire.

[Viking 1-1]

Second to this: what is the approx. range fir the Matra IR?

[diegoepoimaria01]

I'm still very green with this plane, but I think that, if you have only one missile on the ventral hardpoint, you'll need to select only left /ventral OR right/ventral, not both.
Also, you should not be in the dogfight mode ( it has happened to me a lot of times ).

I'm still trying to understand exactly how to get a tone from the missile, so I don't know how useful this was.


EDIT:
I'm getting more tones from the missiles, but I'm still unsure exactly on the correct procedure.
It looks like the mssile needs some time to warm up ... I know there is a 20 seconds cooldown period, but it should not be considered if airstart.
Also, not sure when that cooldown period starts ( or better: WHAT makes it starts ).

I've discovered that: Triangle means missile selected.
Circle under the triangle means missile has a lock, be it a magic or a n IR matra.

Edited July 27, 2022 by diegoepoimaria01

[Comox]

I can't get it to shoot IR 530 either...

[Harlikwin]

Yeah so currently its still broken. It should be a limited all-aspect seeker head (useful for head on shots vs supersonic targets). Currently its working like a rear aspect only missile.

Seeker range and missile range in that regime is very short unfortunately. 

Its already been reported (basically looks like the 550 got the all aspect seeker and the 530 got the rear aspect, when it should be the other way around). So hopefully since they just fixed the 9B, the 550/530 thing will be next along with fixes to the 9J.