Was I being unlucky?

[muamshai]

Ok, so yesterday I was hunting ground targets in my Su-25T. I was painted by radar a couple of times. However, it was no biggie as the radar was quite far away, and I would have time to duck behind the hills incase of any launch warning.

 

So I was flying very peacefully, and suddenly I was hit by MIM-104 without radar painting me and without any launch warning. The radar was really very far away so it was next to impossible for me to ignore any launch warning. However, what I did know that there was on Su-25 operating nearby.

 

So is it possible that missile got me because I was likely closer for missile than that Su-25? If yes then why didn't I hear any kind of warning from RWR?

[GGTharos]

You need to post the track of this.

There seem to be some MP issues where you won't get launch warnings.

[muamshai]

Unfortunately I don't have a track of this unique event :)

[GGTharos]

Ok; let's chalk it up to fluke for now then :)

[mvsgas]

Patriots in the game act like R-77/AIM-120/SA-10. The radar station does no have to look you up to send a missile. Did you get a missile lock the last second or so? When you say far away, how many bars for signal strength?

[muamshai]

^ There was a missile lock like 15 seconds before for like 3 -4 seconds, then silence. no launch warning though.

If I remember correctly, the strength was 11 or 12 bars.

Edited August 30, 2010 by muamshai

[GGTharos]

Once you get that sort of warning, the next 30 sec should be spent worrying about what's about to hit you ... don't ignore it just because the warning went away :)