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templar42 -> [FIXED] R-27 ARM bizarre behaviour (8/23/2018 3:03:24 PM)
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I recently lost a couple of aircraft whose radars I thought I'd turned off to the ARM version of the R-27 AAM while playing a test of the excellent "Baltic Fury 1" scenario. In a fit of sour grapes at this setback, I decided to test its behaviour in a more controlled simulation.
Sure enough, I found that the missile can be launched against non-emitting targets and will happily home in on them while they evade, even if they are still not emitting. There is no datalink listed for the missile and, in any case, the launch aircraft can lose contact with the target and the missile will still home, so there doesn't seem to be some sort of unlisted or implicit command datalink.
I created the attached scenario to showcase this behaviour. The target F-16 is set to not emit even in self-defence (and has no jammer). Manually launching the R-27 ARM should result in it homing all the way and attacking the target.
Is this a bug, or does Command not model air-to-air ARMs properly? If it's the latter, it's a pity, because the weapon as it stands is completely overpowered - it appears to guide itself infallibly by psychic ability!
Edit: Changed F-16 model.
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