How to choose a flight altitude?
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Wow, I didn’t know anyone flew higher than FL400 in missions…
I find it hard to maneuver against R-77s when I am that high. Any tricks? (assuming that I launched my slammer and the enemy aircraft sent r77 my way)
before you get inside E pole, perform a slice down to low altitude by rolling into about 135 degrees of bank and pulling for the deck, dropping stores if necessary. Once established on your new (reciprocal) heading, ‘drag’ the active missile cue between the 0730 and 0430 positions on the RWR. After 4 to 6 roll reversals in this manner, re-establish the reciprocal heading and climb. You should be maintaining full AB during the evasion.
Once the M warning fades from the RWR, you can turn back into the attack heading if your scope is clean. If you have another element that is nose hot on attack heading, they can give you the information on when to turn hot again. You need to turn hot with enough distance from the threat to be able to turn cold again without getting inside E pole.
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How to choose a flight altitude??
Use the force Blunder …. let the flight altitude choose you.
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Wow, I didn’t know anyone flew higher than FL400 in missions…
I find it hard to maneuver against R-77s when I am that high. Any tricks? (assuming that I launched my slammer and the enemy aircraft sent r77 my way)
part of the advantage of being 40k+ is that very few SU-27s will fly that high. you will almost always have a pretty big first launch margin, and the fact that you can effectively move at like mach 1.5~ while running burner helps too. if they do try to climb into you, it’s very likely that they’ll just spend all of their energy in the climb.
if you are launched upon and not going very fast you’re probably dead. adders will fly forever at that altitude, and since your engine power is relatively low you’re not going to get up to speed very fast.
for this reason, it’s very unwise to be so high unless you’re pretty sure you will be able to firstlaunch and then run ASAP.
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If there’s no degrade for look-down-shoot-down radar modeling, your a “big dog” at low FL against medium range AAM.
AFAIK LookDown/ShootDown was modelled since the old RP-days of Falcon4. There was an Excel provided to calculate the ranges.
I don’t think BMS made a step back and kicked the implementation of LD/SD.
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Sry this is probably a dumb question, but what does NOE mean? I stunbled at this a few times recently, but so far couldn’t figure out the meaning
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Near On Earth. (If I’m not wrong)
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Sry this is probably a dumb question, but what does NOE mean? I stunbled at this a few times recently, but so far couldn’t figure out the meaning
Near On Earth. (If I’m not wrong)
Nap-of-the-Earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nap-of-the-earth
C9
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what does ‘nap’ mean?
nap = near ? -
Nap of the earth.
Too late;-)
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Thanks everyone for these quality replies!
“Nap” usually refers to the fuzzy texture of materials like carpet, felt, suede, etc. I guess the phrase is intended to suggest the earth’s surface has a similar character.
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Thanks for the clarification.