Thread 724062426

Would this work in real life?

Yes. It was a well documented British WW2 strategy to disable German V1 rockets. It wouldnt work in current yet as missiles are super sonic now.

they used to do it all the time

>>724062426 (OP)
the thumbnail kinda looked like one of those looney tunes gags where someone falls to the ground and makes a hole perfectly shaped like their body

>>724062860
cruise missiles like the air breathing tomahawk are usually subsonic. This is clearly a subsonic weapon since it has the ram scoop and wings.

>>724062426 (OP)
the only difficult thing would be to catch them but knocking them around is a viable strategy

Seems like a bug where the missile point of reference instantly become's the plane and lose all forward momentum when it detaches again

>>724062426 (OP)
You'd probably get court martialed for trying something like this with a modern gorillion dollar plane

>>724062426 (OP)
There's a video of a Yak training plane from the Russia-Ukraine front, the pilot taps a kamikaze drone with the tip of the right wing and the drone loses balance and falls

What do you do in this game? I am kinda looking for a jet game

>>724062934
gruntilda falls into the ocean
i see it

>>724063064
kinda. it's because once you touch the missile, it knows where it is (touching the plane), and forgets where it isn't. this causes it to lose context of where it is and all control is ruined.

>>724062426 (OP)
If a plane was able to catch up to one and a bit of luck its entirely doable

>>724062426 (OP)
Genuine question if you can do this why don't you just shoot it?

>>724063194
Nothing really. It's early access slop with no content and purely casual gameplay. Not a sim.

>>724063354
by the time that round was put into the sky it cost one thousand pounds sterling

>>724062426 (OP)
Not really.
Like hypothetically yes you can do this, there was an incident where russian jets downed a US drone over the black sea not too long ago.

In practice:
You have to be moving MUCH faster than your target to successfully intercept it from the rear. If it's moving at 1m/s and you're moving at 2m/s and it's a km ahead of you, you'd need 1000 seconds to close the gap. Cruise missiles fly quickly and aren't airborne very long because they don't need much time to reach their target, so the odds of a plane being airborne in the correct area at the correct time and being able to close the gap and physically intercept the missile before it's too late is infinitesmal.

But also at the speeds a cruise missile flies, and thus the speed that the plane needs to be flying to intercept, any kind of light impact can just smash your wing or detonate the missile on you. You'd need mathematical precision to sync your speed and directions so perfectly that the relative difference doesn't translate a huge amount of force and destroy one or both on contact.

>>724063354
Bullets are slower than rockets

>>724063309
I know you're trying to make a joke but unity's physics system is just that wonky

>>724063367
bummer, I guess I'll just reinstall project wingman

>>724063567
>detonate the missile on you
thats not how it works.

>>724063573
If you are flying your jet at the same speed as the rocket and you fire a bullet, the bullet is going to reach the rocket, this is basic physics anon

>>724063573
>tomahawk missile speed - 255 m/s
>m61 vulcan muzzle velocity - 1050 m/s
I think you might be retarded, anon

>>724063659
i was successfully making a reference

>>724063817
jets don't have m61
>>724063803
No, it may even hit you if jet is flying faster than the bullet
That's why last gen modern jets have no machine guns

>>724062957
Its clearly a video game bro. The facts still stand, it has been done in WW2 but good luck doing it against a modern weapon system in a jet. Even if you succeeded your CO would ground you for being a dumbass.

>>724062426 (OP)
Like many people pointed out here, there are men alive today who did this to V1 rockets in WWII. But that only worked because, to make the V1 drop, they just had to tip it far enough that the gyro couldn't recover. Modern missiles are much more sophisticated, so flipping it wouldn't help much, I think.

A modern cruise missile is fast and has little fly time, so intercepting one with a plane is just very unlikely.

>>724063567
Modern explosives require a fuse to ignite them, they don't explode from touching like a looney tunes can of nitro glycerin

>>724063961
>jets don't have m61
Now go and check what gun f16 has
>That's why last gen modern jets have no machine guns
Ah, you're just baiting

>>724062426 (OP)
Wouldn't they readjust themselves?

>>724064013
>Even if you succeeded your CO would ground you for being a dumbass.

>god dammit jenkins, you saved the city by interrupting the cruise missile's course and making it crash without even lightly damaging your own plane?
>you're a loose cannon, better ground you for the rest of the year while the missiles keep coming! pack your shit and get out of my hangar

>>724062860
Man the British are cool as fuck

>>724064284
Violent change in direction, low altitude, damaged surface controls, pick whichever you want

>>724064651
a sentence muttered by the truly insane

I love this game so fucking much

>>724063194
Fly planes, bomb enemy bases. The main "game modes" (really just missions, but they're long missions) are all a variation of fighting an enemy faction with complete freedom as to how you wanna approach it. The main difference between them is the scale of the conflict and what planes you have access too, some only have like two bases and you don't get access to the fanciest aircraft, and other have a big war across the entire map that can last well over an hour.
There's also fan missions you can get.

>>724064013
You said missiles were all supersonic now. I said they're not. So I'm not sure how "the facts still stand". This could be done in a modern jet, people claim to have shot them down with AK$7s at some points.

Just sounds like you're one of those "it cant be done" types with everything.

>>724063689
That's not a sim either. Awful.

>>724064013
It literally is done against a modern weapon system, even in a prop plane.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-laCx8txmQo

>>724062426 (OP)
Downing missiles with your wing, yes, they occasionally did it in the past and they still do it now. However, I imagine that actually touching the main body of the missile like the video could be dangerous. You'd ideally want to break just its winglet or destabilize it.

I love that brrrrr sound

>>724062957
>cruise missiles
Only used against nations still in stone age. Actual missiles now either go too fast or got straight into space and then fall from there.

>>724063194
You fly planes and helicopters and kill your enemy, sometimes with nuclear weapons.
The missions in the game are all pretty barebones right now, the main ones are basically designed for PVP matches where you have to take out the enemies factories and aircraft carriers and whatever to win, but you can play them solo with AI teammates and enemies. The game has a mission editor and there's some pretty good ones on the workshop.

>>724062860
Missiles are fast, the are not the blue hedgehog
Are you retarded?

>>724064985
>>724067837
What happens if you die? Start the whole mission over again or is it a bit like arma where you just respawn and carry on?

What are the lose conditions for these missions?

>>724068321
You respawn at any friendly base that still has the facilities to supply planes. The game has an economy going on where you gain certain amounts of cash per minute and get more cash for blowing up enemies and enemy structures. To get a plane you either have to spend your own money on it or requisition it from your faction, but they need to have some available and you need to be a high enough rank in the faction for whatever plane you want. You also have to spend cash on your munitions, you can't requisition those. Usually not a problem, but the game has nukes and those start getting costly, so if you fuck up a nuke run it could be a very expensive mistake.
Game typically ends when all the enemy structures are destroyed and their carriers sunk, if they have any.

>>724063110
https://youtu.be/e9QhH9P86rQ?t=355