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Russia ahead in BVRAAMs?

I was just wondering what everyone thought about the future development of Russian AAMs. We currently have the R-77M-PD which is the further development of the R-77M, and this missile will have a much longer range, over 160kms, even the Meteor is not sopposed to cope with this range, while US with it’s AIM-120, SD-10, MICA, Derby, etc are all medium range BVRAAMs with some 50+- km range. Then there is the KS-172 which is a 400km long range Anti-AWACS AAM, and the R-33S whose range was only matched by the Phoenix but now the Phoenix is being taken out of service and the R-33S was developed into the 300km R-37 for the Mig-31 and by customers request it can be integrated onto the Flanker series. Then the R-37M(ARH/SARH) was further developed into a 400km version with only a smaller booster. Despite it being able to hit less maneuverable targets like the Phoenix, which the latter one scorred tons of kills on Iraqi fighters and both would only be guided by larger fighters and/or AWACS because small fighters simply do not have the radar powerful enough to guide something past 200km than twice of that

As it seems Russia is getting away from everyone in long range missile tech.

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