Finding dogfighting with the sidewinder rather frustrating. You pull off some hard maneuvers and got a good tone. Squeeze one off, winder tracks perfectly and detonates, BUT DOES ZERO DAMAGE to the target! The explosion wave tumbles the mig somewhat, but it kept on flying without a scratch.
Thought OK, perhaps being the early AIM-9 models (D/G/H) they were somewhat inaccurate or the track was thrown off at the last second or summin, so tried it out with Limas and Mikes.... same thing happens. Unless it's a good tail or head on shot the zero damage hit happens a lot, especially if it's close to 90deg aspect angle.
So of course I fired up weapons editor hoping to see what can be done. The explosive mass was about 10kg, yes much lighter compared to the heavier hitting sparrows (duh!) but fits well to public sources. The fuzing distance is 0.5m, halved it but no avail plus the horrible AIM-4 without proxity fuse was well heard of.
Can't help but wonder what went wrong with the good ol' winder?