All Direction Multi-Purpose Missile

The All Direction Multi-purpose Missile (acronym ADMM) is an special weapon featured in Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation.

Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation

The ADMM deployment pods

The ADMM is an special weapon compatible exclusively with the CFA-44 Nosferatu. Despite its name indicating otherwise, the weapon is actually a set of three pods mounted on the aircraft's internal weapon bays, two on the back on the aircraft and the third on its undercarriage. It is seen only once in the single-player campaign in the mission "Liberation of Gracemeria", where it used by Ilya Pasternak.

As a player weapon, the ADMM is the first weapon available for the Nosferatu. The weapon can fire 18 shots and track up to 12 enemy targets, making for a total of 216 missiles. When fired, the ADMM pods will launch their payload, 4 for each pod, after which they will all "engage" and chase their target. The weapon's missiles have a noticeably higher speed than standard missiles. Upon impact, the missiles explode in a large explosion, which lingers in the air for several moments before dissipating.

The ADMM has a high power, destroying most targets hit in a single impact. This weapon is very accurate & difficult to evade, similar to the QAAM. However, its main drawback is that it takes a fairly long time to reload. It is not recommended to fire when flying at low altitude, as the lower pod's missies will slam into the scenery. An effective method to counter this is to roll while firing.

In multiplayer, the ADMM was considered to be an overpowered weapon, allowing its user to wipe out several other players in a single barrage. As a result, it was banned from competitive gameplay.

Trivia

• The ADMM has an spiritual successor in the form of Ace Combat: Joint Assault's Omnidirectional Multi-Purpose Missile. However, the ODMM tracks only four targets, and does not explode like the ADMM's missiles.
• Based on the way the explosion 'hangs' in the air for some time after explosion, the deployment style and other things, the ADMM might represent an Estovakian effort to miniatureize the Nimbus Missile System