Guest ThomasDWeiss Posted November 10, 2005 Posted November 10, 2005 Correct me if I am wrong: Radar/Active Guided missiles now get decoyed very early on - you can see them losing track even though the radar still has lock. Should it not loose lock later? All radar guided AAM now act like they have a VERY narrow field of vision Radar guided AAM: is guided by the reflected wave of the target that the fighter radar that fired it is tracking and illuminating ( isn't that right ?) Why a small change by a target still far away is enough for it to go blind? Active Radar : if possible, it is radar guided until the terminal phase, then its radar turns on. Again, should it not also mostly lose track in the terminal phase? It should be even less susceptible to losing track than a radar guided because it is in an optimal position for its seeker head to track.
EvilBivol-1 Posted November 10, 2005 Posted November 10, 2005 While hesitating to start *another* missile thread, D-Scythe's and SwingKid's tests seem to show that chaff is the source of the troubles. Since chaff is used immediately after AI (as well as players in most cases) notice an incoming missile, guidence is often lost early in the engagement. Also, the "gimbal limits" should be fine, they are around 55 deg. for both active and semi-active radar homers in the game (I'm not sure about IR homers). The seeker's *field of view*, however, is narrow - around 5 deg. What changes in 1.11 is that once a seeker loses track on a target, it will not regain it unless the target remains within the seekers FOV, where as before, the seeker could regain lock on anything within the *gimbal limits*. Additionally, in the case of ARH missiles, once guidence is lost, the seeker begins an expanding spiral search pattern in an attempt to reacquire the target. It may very well find the bundle of chaff before it finds the target. SARH missiles' seekers simply remain fixed in the position they were when they lost track. - EB [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Nothing is easy. Everything takes much longer. The Parable of Jane's A-10 Forum Rules
Guest ThomasDWeiss Posted November 10, 2005 Posted November 10, 2005 I missed those threads - I set the page now to show 10 days. If chaff is the reason, then I was wrong in believing the seeker is the culprit. This renders AR missiles useless and gives an edge to radar guided.
Gazehound Posted November 10, 2005 Posted November 10, 2005 I missed those threads - I set the page now to show 10 days. If chaff is the reason, then I was wrong in believing the seeker is the culprit. This renders AR missiles useless and gives an edge to radar guided. You would think so, but playing through some community a2g missions Ive noticed excelent flanker being CAPs being fried by average eagle ones. VVS504 Red Hammers
Guest ThomasDWeiss Posted November 10, 2005 Posted November 10, 2005 I am going back to the Eagle soon, nowadays and the past 3-4 months I've flown only the Flanker - and I can tell you, for the past few weeks I gained a lot of scars and bruises on SP air-to-air. Theremust be a sweet spot for launching AAM - usually IR fired ahead of the path being flown by an enemy works better for me, there must be a way to compensate for the super-chaff 'bloom'.
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