Lets assume continuous burn: how long before it runs out of fuel ?
We had this discussion before,
i got the impression from a video that it can burn 25 sec, while Mercurius claim around 15 sec IIRC.
Coasting and throttle back works on high alt, but at lower altitudes it will need constant burn to overcome pressure

According to MBDA promotional material it can burn for “minutes”, the time burn is entirely dependent on range to target, almost certainly what you have seen was the initial rocket boost phase, before the variable flow ducted rocket opened its air intakes and the missile transitioned to ramjet operation.

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If F-35 can do half of what it promise, i think you are good. The problems are:
The delay (seven years behind schedule) and
The cost: 400 billions dollars for this project
Let’s be serious 30s, Rafale is a 62.7 billions programe and honestly apart the sealth features i don’t know what is better in F-35C/A (for the B it’s a nice upgrade of the AV8)
And to be honest i think if you give 400 billions dollards to Dassault, they build a Spaceship. 😀

Pick those those two numbers, “62.7 billions” and “400 billions”, divide by the number of airframes that the Adla/MN versus USAF/USNavy/USMC are suposed to get. There’s a clear case to go after LM and the JPO for balloning costs, but your argument is arguably flawed.

TVC is fundamental to nose pointing ability of fighters to shoot down incoming missiles with gun.

Epic, absolutely epic…

When can we expect a report of Typhoon success in the style of Biggles? Everyone else uses the faintest sniff of success against the RAF Typhoon as an excuse for a party, I reckon it’s time we gave as good as we got!

Google “Raptor kill marks” then click “images”, that should cheer you up.

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While i can image triangulation by irst may be possible in future , what the heck is zig zag ranging ?? And how any of that give info about enemy aircraft velocity ??

Ranging from one single IR sensor is done by moving the sensor and maintaining an historical of the bearings, the bigger the historical, the better, with enough data, and enough movement of the sensor you end up with something similar to triangulation. I can imagine that solution is inferior to using severall separated sensors at the same time.

My bad, was thinking about polish Mig-29 and kidding Sintra

You´re welcomme hallo

(can we ask the mods to close the other topic? :angel:)

And what irst system actually doing that now ? Zig zag supersonic ?

According to Selex (and Bill Sweetman), the “other” twin Euro canard is suposedly doing that now, there are a pair of articles on the last two/three years describing the basic technique (IR triangulation by severall aircrafts, data being shared by Link 16, or zig zag ranging) ; AFAIK there´s not much more data on the public domain right now, but that the Pirate IRST has tracking modes, well, thats pretty official. How effective? God, Selex and the chaps who use the aircraft have a decent idea, Sintra here dont have a clue.

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Prototype testing… :angel:

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I´ll get me hat…