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Originally Posted by highsea
Where did you come up with this? I've never heard of such a thing on APG-73 or APG-79 (or any other American-made fighter radars).
The only place I can find anything on "atk submode" is on SU-27 flightsim.  |
Sounds like it. Someone who plays a bit too much Flanker, perhaps?
The FCS -could- theoretically have a missile ready - but this a complete non-argument. No IRCM is being used, so the engagement is a non-engagement.
Furthermore, the raptor is sitting inside the missile's Rmin. This is -precicely- what the gun is for - and the screens show a snapshot, which - due to settling issues on the sight -
may have completely missed.
In addition, -if- a missile was fired at this range, it might not even guide. At the very least it won't arm as there's an acceleration per time requirement (this is one of the meanings of Rmin).
Again. At the closure displayed on the HUD, the entire distance will be eaten up within 3 sec. This guy basically 1sec to do anything at all with - had he fired a missile, it'd have been thrown out of the turn.