what does that do for the missile? does it improve missile performance?

There is a bug with the missile slider. At many settings it can make some missiles always miss.

ONLY EVER SET IT TO EXACTLY 50% OR EXACTLY 100%

It allegedly changes the likelyhood of the missile hitting, that is to say ALL missiles - your air to air / air to ground missiles and the AI bandits air to air / air to ground, all SAM's. Do not be fooled into thinking it only makes your missiles better.

Thanks for the info Birt!!

Any fixes for the missile slider bug?

And is 50% a realistic representation? I don't feel like cranking it all the way to 100% though.. lol

No, nor will there be. I remember this being discussed years ago when the bug first came to light. Devs looked at it, too tricky to fix.

So set it to exactly 50% or 100% only.

Is it realistic? Who knows?

missiles are modeled pretty bad in this game in my opinion. I have no idea about real missile efectivenes, but i hate the god damn F-15 missiles. Soposedly the american planes have better avionics and wepon systems, but i only manage to lock the missiles inside 10km range, so it kinda defeats the purpose of carying long range missiles. Thats the main reason i dont fly the f-15, because besides that, i love tat bird.