For those who want more detail in their air-to-air battles: Early AAMs used bottles of gas to cool the seeker. This gas could only cool the seeker for a short time before it was used up and the missile warmed up, rendering the seeker much less effective. Lim Cool: Missiles tagged as Lim Cool are only able to attempt lock on twice with current stats. If missile is not locked on/and engaged within two attempts it reverts to a 1st gen IR seeker and is Tail Chase Narrow Aspect only missile. The missile may still be fired. This rule affects the Russian R-13 family, the R-40s on MiG-25s (but not on MiG-31s), R-60 and R-60M on export versions of the Su-17 and MiG-23 (Specifically the MiG-23MS), and US AIM-4D and -4G. BT Back to The Naval Sitrep # 25 Table of Contents Back to Naval Sitrep List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2003 by Larry Bond and Clash of Arms. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history and related articles are available at http://www.magweb.com