Is it me or does chaff do nothing

[FlippyTheMiata]

Every time I use chaff the missile (AIM-120C) the chaff does NOTHING and the missile hits me every time! I use chaff and everytime I get screwed, not once has it ever worked! Anyone feel the same?

[Sandy]

It's you (you could try to elaborate).

Chaff modelling might not be the best but generally countermeasures aren't like in movies or Battlefield games were you just pop some chaff and flares and the missiles home into them with 100% success ratio.

You need to actively maneuver to avoid missiles and drain their kinetic energy while hoping fingers crossed that the countermeasures do their job.

[SkyWolf (Cirrus!) θΔ]

and here I was thinking chaff was too effective...

[george47mathew]

Originally posted by CommieSpaceMagic:

Every time I use chaff the missile (AIM-120C) the chaff does NOTHING and the missile hits me every time! I use chaff and everytime I get screwed, not once has it ever worked! Anyone feel the same?

Maybe the missle and you were head to head....after you release chaff....you have to be like 90 degrees appox to the missle.

Head to head with any missle and still using chaff or flare is a sure case of disaster.

[JDarksword]

Originally posted by coxy:

Chaff works yes also kill any heat source so the misile cant track

Chaff is a Defence against radar guided AAMs, not IRAAM

[Taco Man]

Chaff is for radar guided missiles while flares are for heat seeking

[Tom]

Try notching, chaff is pretty much 100% effective when you get it right.
Here's a good tutorial and explanation
https://youtu.be/b-i4eZWD-Nw