AA.20 missile?

[Stratos 3,168]

Hello!

I searched without luck for this early french A-A missile, the AA-20 in our weapons packs. Anyone know If we ever got this missile for SF2? I know we cannot direct the missiles by ourselves, but maybe using it as a IR poor missile ala AIM4 Falcon?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AA.20

[+strahi 990]

AA-20.7z

[Stratos 3,168]

Thanks mate! Will try it this evening!!

[PFunk 198]

It looks like a Nord AS.20 repurposed for air-to-air targets?

[Stratos 3,168]

3 hours ago, PFunk said:

It looks like a Nord AS.20 repurposed for air-to-air targets?

It was. Pilot must guide the missile all the time until the proximity fuse detonated the warhead.

[Wilches 1,156]

6 hours ago, Stratos said:

It was. Pilot must guide the missile all the time until the proximity fuse detonated the warhead.

This is bizarre. 

[Stratos 3,168]

5 hours ago, Wilches said:

This is bizarre. 

Not bizarre, germans experimented already with that in WW2

From Wikipedia article about the Ruhrstahl X-4

The missile was spin-stabilized at about 60 rpm,^[3] or one rotation a second, so any asymmetrical thrust from the engine or inaccuracies in the control surfaces would be evened out. Signals to operate control surfaces on the tail were sent via two wires (a method chosen to avoid jamming),^[4] which unwound from bobbins housed within long, bullet-shaped fairings, themselves mounted either on the roots of an opposing pair of the larger mid-body fins (there were four, swept 45°),^[5] or on those same fins' opposing tips; these contained a total of about 5.5 km (3.4 mi; 3.0 nmi) of wire.^[6] The wires were controlled by a joystick in the cockpit.^[7] A gyroscope kept track of "up" so control inputs from the pilot's joystick in the launch aircraft could be translated into yaw and pitch as the missile spun. Flares attached to two of the midsection wings were used to keep the missile visible through the smoke of its motor.

 

BTW Strahi, can't get this to appear on my french planes, is a IRM?

[+strahi 990]

4 hours ago, Stratos said:

Not bizarre, germans experimented already with that in WW2

From Wikipedia article about the Ruhrstahl X-4

The missile was spin-stabilized at about 60 rpm,^[3] or one rotation a second, so any asymmetrical thrust from the engine or inaccuracies in the control surfaces would be evened out. Signals to operate control surfaces on the tail were sent via two wires (a method chosen to avoid jamming),^[4] which unwound from bobbins housed within long, bullet-shaped fairings, themselves mounted either on the roots of an opposing pair of the larger mid-body fins (there were four, swept 45°),^[5] or on those same fins' opposing tips; these contained a total of about 5.5 km (3.4 mi; 3.0 nmi) of wire.^[6] The wires were controlled by a joystick in the cockpit.^[7] A gyroscope kept track of "up" so control inputs from the pilot's joystick in the launch aircraft could be translated into yaw and pitch as the missile spun. Flares attached to two of the midsection wings were used to keep the missile visible through the smoke of its motor.

 

BTW Strahi, can't get this to appear on my french planes, is a IRM?

Its a SAHM,

 

[PFunk 198]

On 3/9/2018 at 12:29 PM, Stratos said:

It was. Pilot must guide the missile all the time until the proximity fuse detonated the warhead

Sounds like a good way to die.

[Stratos 3,168]

13 hours ago, PFunk said:

Sounds like a good way to die.

Things were different back then, and in theory it was made to keep the pilot out of bomber gunner range.

Strahi, thanks a lot mate! Works now!