Kelevra9987 Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Today I flew some Singleplayer Training in a L-39 against other L-39. I was in a Head to Head Engagement and the Enemy fired his R-3S in Front Aspect at me. And yes, I catched it like a Ball. Then I pressed LShift+R to restart the Mission and found myself again in a Head to Head Engagement with the L-39. The same result as the first Front Aspect shot. But as far as I know the R-3S are Rear-Aspect only, compareable to the GAR-8 from the F-86F Maybe someone can reproduce this but maybe it's just me being stupid :music_whistling: Cheers :) Modules: Well... all of 'em ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VIII Hero | CPU: i7-6700K @ 4.6GHz | RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengance LPX DDR4 | GPU: GTX TITAN X (Maxwell) | SSD1: 256GB NVMe SSD System | SSD2: 250GB Games | HDD 4TB WD Red Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avimimus Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Were you in afterburner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nerd1000 Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 L-39 doesn't have an afterburner. The R-3S uses an uncooled Lead Sulfide seeker. Because such seekers are only sensitive to fairly high frequency IR radiation, it requires direct line-of-sight to the hot parts of the engine like the inside of the nozzle and the final turbine stage in order to get a lock. The AI, however, are able to cheat. You'll notice that many R-60M equipped AI aircraft are able to launch head-on, and it seems that the L-39 continues that trend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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