

It is directly based on the USN AIM-9H, but features improvements utilized in the USAF AIM-9J, including a new radar-slavable uncaged seeker head. The AIM-9L variant is the first Sidewinder since the AIM-9B to be jointly used by the USAF and the USN, and was jointly developed by the two branches as well. Vehicles equipped with this weapon Vehicles equipped with this weapon Its first large scale usage was by the United Kingdom during the Falklands War, with an 80% launch-to-kill ratio. It was first used by a pair of F-14 Tomcats in 1981, successfully destroying two Libyan Su-22s. The AIM-9L entered service in 1977 as the first Sidewinder with all-aspect capabilities.

The AIM-9L Sidewinder is an American infrared homing air-to-air missile, it was introduced in Update 1.85 "Supersonic". Overall Germany or America would be far better choices.The AIM-9L Sidewinder missile (scale is approximate) Japanese cruisers are better and are some of the best in the game, at least for the Mogami's, and imo the Agano is the best looking ship. Then there's the Akizuki which, despite the monstrous firing rate of its guns, does worse damage than the Yuugumo due to the poor filler in those guns. Yeah, their torpedoes are excellent, but they're difficult to score a kill with when fights take place at five kilometers and more, though I had the luck to get two kills in a row in a game from a torpedo spread on my Mutsuki once. Japanese destroyers later on have it particularly tough, their guns being one of the worst in the game and easily beaten by the volleys that American and German destroyers can pump out.

He overstates a "large part of them" being designed for landing operations when only three of them were, the "Se-Ha" and the Soukou-Tei series, but those are some of the poorest boats around their BRs. Originally posted by roflcopter1515:starting off Japanese get some fairly large guns for the smaller patrol boats and sub chasers, one 75mm HE shell will delete most PT boats if you know how to lead While the Type 96 and Type 98 are both great low-tier autocannons, moreso the Type 96, and the later Vickers 40 mm is even better, as Curst has already said they aren't that special.
