AIM-9x vs AIM-120

AIM-120 and AIM-9x side by side

As you can see the AIM-9x structural parts are far similar to the AMRAAM. Same paint scheme, but although the AIM-9x has far 4% of bigger wings so it’s able to turn tightly in a high AoA maneuver to the target. Even a far diffrence is that AIM-9x has a guided camera seeker on the front of the AIM-9x and the AIM-120 doesn’t and the AIM-120 is guided by the antenna. It’s a really big diffrence between the two air dominance missiles. But as i said I’ll take the AIM-9x for in WVR to have the enemy shot down. The AIM-9x can shoot down the most maneuverable aircraft of today. Even though the AIM-120 is 6% bigger than the AIM-9x. But there’s plenty of growth potential of the AIM-9x and AIM-120. But even thought the navy might get MBDA Meteor class missile. If they don’t get it Raytheon can extend a new AIM-120s range to be a longer range AMRAAM. The AIM-9x is 3% skinnier than the AIM-120

AIM-120 features

AIM-9x features

😉 keep it up

Ace combat games are quite far from reality, at least from a technical and tactical point of view. For the feeling of speed and task saturation, they have been described as “more realistic than those so called simulators” by people who did the real thing.

Still, to get a feel for how the real things might work, try something more like a simulation such as Digital Combat Simulator. True sims tend to be a tad “dry” and focus on the systems side of things.

To the others; I wouldnt be so quick to dismiss games. They are a valuable tool to gain insight into tactics and comparative analysis of different systems. We can talk all day how about it’s the pilot quality that matters more than the machine he’s flying, but until you have tried fighting an F-pole joust with an underpowered kite it’s all just theory.

Mabye you should go back to your simulators? I know ace combat is a arcade game and everything is fictional. I don’t need a computer simulation game. I already have one on my IPad. Called X-Plane. Also the sims are knot usually real. You get the flying real, but in a game filled with dogfighting like you mentioned about the simulator, it isn’t real. The flying part is real, but in a action dogfighting, it’s fiction. I don’t play any video games anymore. But hey, thanks for the link. But Ace Combat is just Japan’s fantasy games of aviation.

F it. pearls before swine

Interesting video of the AIM-9x capabilities.

AIM-120 and AIM-9x side by side

As you can see the AIM-9x structural parts are far similar to the AMRAAM. Same paint scheme, but although the AIM-9x has far 4% of bigger wings so it’s able to turn tightly in a high AoA maneuver to the target. Even a far diffrence is that AIM-9x has a guided camera seeker on the front of the AIM-9x and the AIM-120 doesn’t and the AIM-120 is guided by the antenna. It’s a really big diffrence between the two air dominance missiles. But as i said I’ll take the AIM-9x for in WVR to have the enemy shot down. The AIM-9x can shoot down the most maneuverable aircraft of today. Even though the AIM-120 is 6% bigger than the AIM-9x. But there’s plenty of growth potential of the AIM-9x and AIM-120. But even thought the navy might get MBDA Meteor class missile. If they don’t get it Raytheon can extend a new AIM-120s range to be a longer range AMRAAM. The AIM-9x is 3% skinnier than the AIM-120

AIM-120 features

AIM-9x features

i think you’ll be interested in that mica shot… (already postd in another thread) : 6 o’clock using passive sensors and spectra only…

Yea saw it in the Rafale thread.

Steven

i think you’ll be interested in that mica shot… (already postd in another thread) : 6 o’clock using passive sensors and spectra only…

Maybe you should go back to your games ?

Mabye if you had the ability to. I used to play Ace Combat 4, and noticed as aviation enthusiast that the AIM-9 is a Multirole missile in Ace Combat. But i’m studying my aircraft. I don’t play video games. But i remember around 2005 🙂

Hasn’t anyone played a aircraft game on a system then you see the AIM-9 as a both air to air missile and air to ground?

Maybe you should go back to your games ?

Hasn’t anyone played a aircraft game on a system then you see the AIM-9 as a both air to air missile and air to ground?

Something from 2009 that you might like Mr Growler

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/exclusive-raytheon-adapts-aim-9x-for-air-to-ground-missson-335762/

“Raytheon has adapted the heat-seeking AIM-9X to strike moving targets on the ground or in the water, adding another new capability for the formerly air-to-air-only missile.

The modification allows the same AIM-9X to strike both air and ground targets.”

Interesting link David, i wouldn’t like to adopt the AIM-9x into a Multirole missile. It’s beacuse you’d need to require a lot of capabilities to add on a Multirole AIM-9x, which will fairly take some buiesness to go on to. I’d rather use the AIM-9x as our ultimate advanced tactical missile in Air-to-Air combat. But the Sidewinder family won’t be with us forever.

Something from 2009 that you might like Mr Growler

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/exclusive-raytheon-adapts-aim-9x-for-air-to-ground-missson-335762/

“Raytheon has adapted the heat-seeking AIM-9X to strike moving targets on the ground or in the water, adding another new capability for the formerly air-to-air-only missile.

The modification allows the same AIM-9X to strike both air and ground targets.”

1) No it does NOT and no it can NOT.
3) Yes. google it.

[1] Mica cant attack ground targets, there was one project with that aim, the JDRADM, but that was not a french project, it was US.

It’s a Multirole missile, so it does attack ground targets but it hasn’t been proved yet.

[2] Matra is the french company that made Mica missile

Ok thanks for that.

[3] Yes, Magic exist, both 1 & 2, and they are french, too.

Is magic a missile?

1] Mica cant attack ground targets, there was one project with that aim, the JDRADM, but that was not a french project, it was US.
2] Matra is the french company that made Mica missile
3] Yes, Magic exist, both 1 & 2, and they are french, too.

?

Ask Matra?

What’s Matra?

Ask Matra?

Yup. By magic. Just as much as it can be used for ground attack (see your post #23)

Ok, but magic doesn’t exist….. “Or does it”?

Yup. By magic. Just as much as it can be used for ground attack (see your post #23)