I doubt that the radars/avionics on legacy Mig-29s could take advantage of Western AAM's superior flight envelope though. Might be better to send F-16 directly.
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I doubt that the radars/avionics on legacy Mig-29s could take advantage of Western AAM's superior flight envelope though. Might be better to send F-16 directly.
I believe that the AMRAAM has this capability built in, basically just fire it and it’ll hit whatever it sees.
Can it get midflight updates by NATO air assets?
Avdiivka looking more like Bakhmut mk2 lately:
So if Bakhmut bring all the UFA reinforcement, could Avdiivka fall first ?
So if Bakhmut bring all the UFA reinforcement, could Avdiivka fall first ?
Can't. The missile has very small radar, can't see as far as the big radar on the aircraft.
Means the AMRAAM radar usable only in the last 10% of the flight path, during 90% the aircraft radar more usable (has more power) .
Which is suboptimal without the plane being able to feed it data and the range of the seeker is always going to be far less than that of the plane's own radar.
Only the D variant which is only in service with the US and Australia, as far as I know
If it is above AIM-120C7 then probably yes. But you still need a proper firing solution before you can launch it. Not even the best medium range missiles today are truly fire and forget. The active seeker could, in very generous term, see like 20 miles out and still require proper fire control support before going pit bull.
If they try to hunt SU-35 and Mig 31 with r37/77... good luck to them.
AMRAAM talk might just be feel-good talk
100's of Leo2 and Abrams turned out to be a handful and who knows when they will even come out?
These politicians and "officials" are all graduates from the Potemkin/Great Leap Forward/al-Sahhaf/Judith Miller school
100's of Leo2 and Abrams turned out to be a handful and who knows when they will even come out?
These politicians and "officials" are all graduates from the Potemkin/Great Leap Forward/al-Sahhaf/Judith Miller school
Variation of a theme. Adviivka is even more toughly defended but has less arteries which just happened to be closer to the Russian front at the north. The other is at the south and already cannot be used due to already being cut off. No need to attack the city itself. Just step on the remaining artery and deprive it of the oxygen.