reported earlier AIM-120 cannot hit target doing barrel roll

[Noctrach]

As per post. This has been discussed before but AIM-120s still cannot hit a target doing a lazy barrel roll. Pk against such a target is below 0.05.

The missile appears to be setting PIP on target lift vector meaning a barrel roll will cause it to start arcing through the sky. Slower rolls are more effective than faster rolls, higher G is more effective as well, but ~5G is more than sufficient all the way down to about 10,000 feet.

You can see this happening on TacView, where missile seeker will start following lift vector motion, rather than target motion.

No jamming, no chaff, only control inputs.

Tracks attached.

BarrelRoll1.trk Barrelroll2.trk

Edited December 12, 2023 by Noctrach

[BIGNEWY]

Hi, 

we do have a report open for this internally. 

thanks

[Noctrach]

1 hour ago, BIGNEWY said:

Hi, 

we do have a report open for this internally. 

thanks

Super, thanks