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Possible bug and-or weird behavior of the RWR when Fired upon by a MiG-31 with an R-33


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As a divergence from the thread about the AIM-54 and RWR, i made a few tests involving the MiG-31 and the R-33. I tested only 3 planes, the F-14, F-16 and F-18. The initial launch is detected by all RWR's. However, in the F-14 at about 40-45 nautical miles, the alarm switches from being launched on to being locked. Can anyone confirm this behavior? Is it just me? Is it a bug? Or is it working as intended? And if so, why is it so?
 

 

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I've had the same behavior in both SP and MP, sometimes being hit out of nowhere by an R-33 long after the launch warning went off. I've also experienced the same with the Moskva cruiser (or whatever SV stands for). 

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So it's not just the 31 then 🤔

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Bumping this bug report, and probably submitting one for an extremely.... err... optimistic... flight modelling of the R33.  Tonight on the 107th TTI Syria server, myself, with Human RIO (Teomo) were doing an attack profile on a MiG-31 set to Expert AI.  Timeline of Events:
 

-Get spike at 85nmi, no launch warning,
-We dive from 42k to 30k, then pull up to loft our 54
-Launch our 54 at 65nmi, 42k feet, Mach 1.15
-Crank right to gimbal, start diving to the deck while keeping MiG31 at gimbal

-Still no Launch Warning or Missile Inbound warning

-At our AIM54's TTI of ~21 seconds we go poof, our 54 goes dumb

 

Time of Engagement: ~2 minutes

 

Tacview file, truncated, is attached.  I'm [107th-R] Whiskey 936 in the F-14B.  MiG-31 is listed as "MiG-31 (A2A_Spawn_Init_ACAP#001-02)".

 

Few interesting takeaways... The R33 has a ridiculously flat and fast profile which defies missile physics.  At 65nmi, the AIM-54 capped out 60k feet and about Mach 4.54 after being manually lofted (it actually nosed DOWN to its loft profile after launch) at Mach 1.15.  After travelling ~50nmi, the Phoenix has effectively the same energy as the R33 (slightly more, by about .2 Mach) launched at 80nmi by a faster MiG-31 (Mach 1.82... jeesus that thing is fast to accelerate (1.5 to 1.8 in 1 minute).

At any rate, a combination of an RWR which didn't respond AT ALL to being launched on, and a broken missile leaves me asking some questions.  Don't know if the RWR thing is squarely in HB's house or ED's house, but it's frustrating none the less.

F14B_vs_MiG31_WTF.txt.acmi

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1 hour ago, Whiskey11 said:

 

 

Few interesting takeaways... The R33 has a ridiculously flat and fast profile which defies missile physics. 

That's the old (pre-HB) Phoenix FM or something very similar to it. They were known to sprint at mach 5 as low as 15000ft or so. Very flat, very fast. 

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5 hours ago, IronMike said:

Thank you, I fwded it to Grover.

Always a pleasure! 

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