And how will they make it from BVR to WVR to employ them? This reads like entering a gun fight with a knife.
AIM-9X, is a good missile, specially if you have the ultra cool helmet that allowed its HOBS (High off bore sight) shit with it for F-16, but depending on block it can be a over 20 year old model. Also kinda doubtful Russian jets, which these days love to lob BVR missiles high and fast, is getting in range of it.
Its not cutting edge.
IRIS-T, Python 5 and ASRAAM should all be better, and more “cutting edge”.
I dont really know enough about Russian and Chinese Missiles (R-74 and PL-9) to have any idea how good they are.
I’m just a random idiot on the internet tho, but the title is bullshit-ish (from the site, not OP).
If the Russians are within Fox-2 range something has gone very, very wrong. AIM-120D would be more useful, but specifically useful because they can shoot down Russians while they are still in Russia, which professional coward Jake Sullivan still wants to protect the Russians from. And while Britain may be willing to give Ukraine Meteor, they can’t be used by F-16. Which may be part of why the US pushed F-16 over JAS-39 in the first place.
could just as easily be the B version. These are crappy short-range missiles. the only thing they will intercept are shaheds and rockets.
These are for drone hunting purposes, not going toe to toe with flankers.
Solid for internal intercepts, but they cant out stick Russian aircraft beyond the frontline. They will need other missiles and good tactics.
That’s good – but it’s only **short range** “cutting edge”. 35-40km. Name of the game is beyond visual range, or BVR (AMRAAM C/D are hardly new tech but would be a decent place to start). Russian Mig-31 planes with R-37M missiles can do over 200km.
If all you’ve got is cutting edge short range weapons, then all that allows you to do is to bring a “cutting edge” knife to a gunfight.
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And how will they make it from BVR to WVR to employ them?
This reads like entering a gun fight with a knife.
AIM-9X, is a good missile, specially if you have the ultra cool helmet that allowed its HOBS (High off bore sight) shit with it for F-16, but depending on block it can be a over 20 year old model. Also kinda doubtful Russian jets, which these days love to lob BVR missiles high and fast, is getting in range of it.
Its not cutting edge.
IRIS-T, Python 5 and ASRAAM should all be better, and more “cutting edge”.
I dont really know enough about Russian and Chinese Missiles (R-74 and PL-9) to have any idea how good they are.
I’m just a random idiot on the internet tho, but the title is bullshit-ish (from the site, not OP).
If the Russians are within Fox-2 range something has gone very, very wrong. AIM-120D would be more useful, but specifically useful because they can shoot down Russians while they are still in Russia, which professional coward Jake Sullivan still wants to protect the Russians from. And while Britain may be willing to give Ukraine Meteor, they can’t be used by F-16. Which may be part of why the US pushed F-16 over JAS-39 in the first place.
could just as easily be the B version. These are crappy short-range missiles. the only thing they will intercept are shaheds and rockets.
These are for drone hunting purposes, not going toe to toe with flankers.
Solid for internal intercepts, but they cant out stick Russian aircraft beyond the frontline. They will need other missiles and good tactics.
That’s good – but it’s only **short range** “cutting edge”. 35-40km. Name of the game is beyond visual range, or BVR (AMRAAM C/D are hardly new tech but would be a decent place to start). Russian Mig-31 planes with R-37M missiles can do over 200km.
If all you’ve got is cutting edge short range weapons, then all that allows you to do is to bring a “cutting edge” knife to a gunfight.