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AIM-120C crazy close miss on slow target (track included)


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When I saw this in game I didn't believe my eyes. Target = Mirage 2000C at ~4000ft altitude, speed ~0.4M, distance between 3000-4000ft, slowly going up. AIM-120C fired and guided to target by its own radar, however missed within 48ft distance from target, at 4800ft altitude and speed 1.66M

This was super close, and there is a parallel thread debating whether AIM-120 fuze proximity should be 50ft or less (Aim-120 proximity fuze too low) however what is amazing here is the miss itself.

The target wasn't maneuvering with high angular velocities and there was no high aspect ratio - the shot was more or less from behind, with target slowly rolling at low speed. There is yet another parallel thread about defeating AIM-120 by barrel roll at high altitude (AIM-120 can still be defeated by barrel rolls at high altitudes) however the geometry is quite different there.

Anyway this was something quite unexpected and hopefully allmighty ED team will a look at this 🙂

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Lets put the fuze/proximity aside for a moment.

More important question is why did AIM-120C at 1.7M speed miss a target at 0.4M speed, coming at it from behind and not having to deal with high aspect ratios/high angular velocity/etc. 

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Thanks I read all threads here in AIM120 - the one above seems to be focused on online/multiplayer sync issues. My case is much simpler - offline single-player against AI bot. 

There seem to be many issues atm with AIM120 guidance, looking forward for replies from ED

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Another example of AIM-120C missing within 40ft from the target, which it was tracking from the 1/4th aspect. No track unfortunately (hey ED make tracks record by default for last week, the installation is hundreds of gigabytes, few megs from tracks wont hurt).

The more I fire at M2000C and see AIM-120 miss very very closely, the more it looks there is some advantage Mirage has, curious what is it. Looks like missile loses lock just a second before it passes by.

 

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Edited by AndrewDCS2005
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