Aim-7s
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Ive shot about 30 ms and 10 fs none tracked , fly low, smoke out or dud off the rail. Are they non working?
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Ive shot about 30 ms and 10 fs none tracked , fly low, smoke out or dud off the rail. Are they non working?
AIM-7 is a SARH which means it must maintain a radar link between the launching platform the entire time of flight. So you must guide the missile until target destruction. If at any point your radar drops the lock or your snip the lock, the missile goes ballistic, meaning no kill. Just keep it locked and as long as the target doesn’t maneuver to defeat your missile, or does not defend well enough, you will get target destruction.
AIM-120 is similar, but uses it’s own radar that only requires the launch platform until reaching MPRF/HPRF status where it’s own radar picks up tracking from there. This improved lethality over the AIM-7 a great deal and that’s why it’s the workhorse missile of the USAF these days. They still have AIM-7s, but you don’t see them loaded up that much anymore.
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i see it’s not handling that SA model well, seems to just want to run lead pursuit and burns out all energy. Hard lock needs to be maintained or is soft sufficient?
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i see it’s not handling that SA model well, seems to just want to run lead pursuit and burns out all energy. Hard lock needs to be maintained or is soft sufficient?
STT. So in RWS and single bug track for sure.
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10-4. working on some goofiness.
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i see it’s not handling that SA model well, seems to just want to run lead pursuit and burns out all energy. Hard lock needs to be maintained or is soft sufficient?
Semi-active & lead pursuit are not contradictory…
Semi-active RH is a way for the missile to know where the target is. Like ARH or IR.
Lead pursuit is : now that I know the target is here, how do I maneuver to hit it.
And BTW, proportional navigation (which is a form of lead pursuit) is one of the best simple algorithms to hit a moving target with a missile.
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I shoot a full load of f’s and m’s from various ranges- BVR, less than and beyond 12 NM. Maintaining STT, 100% failure of missile to track. Comes off rail heavy smoke for est. 5-7 seconds , nose down , no track.
Tried MRM Ovrd, close range less than 5 NM, rear aspect and front, no track. Jumped in an f-15, launched a whole salvo of m’s and they all found the mark. I don’t know , I’ll use amraams for now- was just working through the weapons and noticed this behavior.
There’s no flood mode on the radar in the blk I’m using maybe that’s the problem. No biggie.
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I tried to reproduce the situation the OP refers to. I picked F-16A blk 15, and the incoming enemy a/c were a pair of Su-25’s. On the load out screen I had chosen 2xAIM7M, 2xAIM120B (should they be available for the "A variant?) and 2xAIM9P. Indeed, even though I could get a good radar lock on the frogfoots and enter the STT mode, both Sparrows missed. OTOH, I scored an easy kill with one AMRAAM, and the AIM9P damaged the other Su-25 and I finished it off with the gun.
In another TE I intercepted four Tu-160’s flying an F/A-18C armed with (among other missiles) two AIM7’s. In this case both Sparrows tracked and hit their assigned targets… -
Scoring a hit with Aim-7s has always been a art. They do need good illumination, the right aspect and reasonable short range.
If its to far for a heater use a Sparrow. Save that last Amraam.