Guiding a missile will usually require you to stop controlling your aircraft, as guiding the missile to its target is hard enough without also manoeuvring your aircraft at the same time, so make sure there is no one on your tail before you fire one. In order to guide the missile you must set up guided weaponry controls (see below) after you have fired the missile you can then use the controls to manually guide it towards the target. In-game if a command guided missile is fired, and no further input is given, then it will act like an unguided rocket with a proximity fuse. Notice the lack of HUD elements relating to the missile, you have to watch the missile's flare and manually guide it to the target. Once the missile was fired the pilot would watch the missile (many missiles had a flare in the tail to aid visibility) and manually guide it towards the target, using a joystick.Īn AA-20 command guided missile, fired at a MiG-15 from a G.91 R/4. Command guided missiles are manually guided to the target by the pilot (or another crew member) of the aircraft which fired them. The most basic type of air-to-air missiles in-game are command guided missiles. By comparison, an air-to-air missile has an active guidance system, allowing it to fly towards and follow a target. When a rocket is fired it will simply fly along its trajectory until it hits something (a target or more often the ground), or self-destructs. The thing that separates air-to-air missiles from rockets is the presence of a guidance system. There are currently a few categories of air-to-air missiles available to use: command guided missiles, beam riding missiles, infrared homing (heat-seeking) missiles, and semi-active and active radar homing missiles. In-game they are a potent weapon to have at your disposal, allowing you to destroy enemy aircraft from several km away in some situations. 5 Semi-Active Radar Homing (SARH) missilesĪir-to-air missiles were added to the game in Update 1.85 they are available to many aircraft from around the Korean War era and onwards.4.4 List of infrared homing air-to-air missiles.4.1.4.2 Infrared Counter Measures (IRCM) systems.4.1.2 Slaving the seeker to an aircraft tracking radar.
3.4 List of beam riding air-to-air missiles.2.4 List of command guided air-to-air missiles.
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