How long an activ missle can track you?
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Hello,
last sunday i flow in the FO Battle for Balkan. A enemy F16 chased me over the whole Adrian sea, i m winchester and very low on fuel. Outrun 3 missles and the base is infront of me. I think he has to defend against basedefense (short time i had nothing in the rwr).
In this window i tried to land.
Brakes, gear, a few 100 meters from touchdown the “M” Comes again.
It hits me 3 or 4 seconds befor getting on the runway.What do you think, if i managed to land, would the missle still track me? Or would it loose track but hit the ground close to me, because it wasnt far away anyway? Or would you have a Chance to surive, if the missle in not only 3 seconds away on your six?
Daniel
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The AIM120 type of missiles are air to air weapons, I haven’t heard of those specific ones being employed in air to ground scenarios (AIM9s they’ve tried). I you’d landed nobody should be even shooting you with AIM120.
……if the missle in not only 3 seconds away on your six?
Too close for comfort!
However it’s not that easy even for the shooter’s systems to determine how many second away a missile is from hitting. The ‘T’ marker you get on the HUD is kind’a flexible according to the bandit maneuvers and doesn’t always represent the exact time to impact in seconds. -
From what I’ve heard, the real F16 RADAR is able to pick up and lock on to spinning windmills and moving cars, but not sure if they could succesfully guide an AIM-120 to that “target”, or if the missile RADAR has the same locking capability.
That being said though, in BMS, I’ve had instances where Eurofighters destroyed grounded non-moving planes with BVRAAM, so it’s fair to assume the AIM-120 would be able to do the same. Guessing that has something to do with an aircraft being labeled an air target, thus to be engaged with AA weapons?
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I dont think they are able to track you once you are on the ground.
@eagle-eye - this is due to the doppler shift of the windmills and moving cars. the FCR has a built in doppler ‘gate’ - as in anything with a return under X velocity is discounted. by lowering it you do indeed pickup all kinds of ground clutter. In certain countries (like germany for instance) they are forced to put this ‘gate’ value higher because of the faster travelling cars on the autobahn.
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We can test it if someone want. I will make the target, i m good in this. )-:
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Just to chip in, I have destroyed many mi’s (mi-8? forget the exact name) and AH-6s that were ‘supposedly’ on the ground with amraams. so maybe? This would be a fun test to do.