Red Side Standard Weapons Pack - AAM Public test version 0.9 Beta

RED SIDE STANDARD WEAPONS PACK 0.90 Beta

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This is a public test version, currently contains only AAM type weaponry. Full version will follow soon. Please try out equipment playing from both sides. AI vs AI combat is also to be observed. Note that missile perfomance is also affected by the launch platform's radar capabilities. You may have to edit your respective launch platform's plane data.ini in case of any weapon not appearing on the loadout menu. Contact me if help needed.

About 1000+ launch tests have been done per missile against planes with various maneuverability with or without CM at low and high altitude. Ballistics have been also checked with HoneyFox's Missile Range Simulator.

Introduction:

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Red Side Standard Weapons Pack (RSSW) is a standardized, simplified weapons pack for eastern bloc aircraft ordnance. The pack includes weaponry from a time frame from 1950 to 2000.

The main effort was to provide both users and modders with a stable and well organized collection of on-board weapons. With standardized references, station-specific entries and names there is no need for modders to include weapon files for the aircraft they have made and it is also more easy to construct proper stations and loadout arrangements.

Using multiple reference materials (both english an russian) we tried to fine tune the effectiveness of all the weaponry for satisfactory red-side player game experience while keeping

as much realism as possible. This also provides more challenge playing on the blue side. We did not yet apply general changes to blue side weaponry (like the Rear60 IRM fix) some weapons may appear more capable than their blue side counterparts. Even though RSSW was designed to improve red side player experience and flyable aircraft, we will of course apply these changes to blue side to keep a balance challenge level.

Effectiveness for guided weapons have been tuned to provide realistic hit rate within the proper launch requirements. Because of game limitations, this means some technical parameters and values may be different from real world data.

We kept as much stock reference as we could to provide compatibility with original game standard (Naming, Types, Loadout ID, etc)

Installation:

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Extract the files into the respective "Addon" Folder on your system. It is advised, to install it into a fresh (cleaned up) Weapons folder.

This weapon pack will overwrite almost all soviet type ordnance including stock ones. RSSW compatible plane addons and their loadouts have been constructed to use RSSW weapon specifications, regarding StationSpecific entries, size, weight, diameter and availability dates. Because of that, remaining previous versions of soviet type ordnance may cause problems in loadout appearing with these planes.

Contents:

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- The latest 3D models of all Air-to-Air missiles with thoroughly revised characteristics (FM, Guidance, etc)

- Weapon (and folder) names use common standard for convenience, clarity and simplified looks

Important changes:

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- IRMs with Rear60 aspect has been reworked with higher Turn G and/or higher Track Rate, to compensate the faulty tracking game logic related to Rear60 seekers.

FULL VERSION FUTURE CONTENT:

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- Simplified (reduced) version of Lindr2's SovietBombPack

- Latest and updated 3D models of Air-to-Ground missiles with revised characteristics (FM, Guidance, etc)

- New racks for more realistic loadouts

- Specific weapons for problematic aircraft loadouts (eg. racks holding rocket pods)

- Revised and standardized guns for on-board and gunpod use

- Patch loadout files for existing non-RSSW compatible planes

Credits:

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Weapon LODs: Lindr2, Krizis, Snailman

Sources:

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Internet

- ru.wikipedia.org

- russian-ships.info

- militaryrussia.ru

- www.airwar.ru

- rbase.new-factoria.ru

- worldweapon.ru

- various forums

Books

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- Soviet Russian Aircraft Weapons (Yefim Gordon)

- Encyclopedia of Russian Aircraft Armaments and Avionics (Bilingual)