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Originally posted by Two Bells:
Hi All

I am having real trouble surviving F16's.
I can neither take out nor avoid the beasts ever...
Their missiles find me no matter where I hide or NOE and MY armaments don't have the range :-(
Any ideas?
Please mail me with suggestions

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After all, the tracking system for the laser traker is meant to follow targets even on the move. Cars, trains etc. I know that target recoqnition (in this sense it's just image separation) is prone to faults, but to at least some extend they can track moving targets. Mostly I think the problem would be masking, sudden changes of LOS and too big LOS rate. Well, in a head on situation all those are not too bad!

The missile agility is definitely not as good as for air to air missiles, but it's flight time is quite short, so it's relatively fast object. And the missile should be manouverable enough to do the LOAL high aspect attack: ie it could be manouverable enough to hit fixed wing aircraft. What it would NOT be able to do, is manouver with the target and make lead pursuit profiles. It's guided pure to the laser spot (which hitting the actual plane is considered above).

Especially when the fighter does not consider you a threat, you could score hits with the missile. It's not dedicated for it, but it has the changes.

Against a high and fast aircraft... no way! :-) But planes attacking a chopper hardly are aiming at 500kts.