The B-1R (look it up) was one of the options put forward under the 2006 Quadrennial Defence Review and had been rejected by the 2010 QDR in favour of a clean-sheet project. It would’ve been cool in a Dale Brown sort of way, but I suspect it was the correct decision.
Purposely, i’ve forgot about that model. It had a Mach 2.2 speed while the 20% of its range gets reduced. Then it had the ability to carry AMRAAMs under the fuelsalage. Although it had a double tail fins bended like the F-22 tail. But what if they had another improved/better stealthy and well built B-1?
Before Rafale there was the TF-102A Delta Dagger trainer. I cannot help but to think it influenced the Rafale styling.
Seriously, these inflight photos of the TF-102A are rare commodity. I wish there were more with better quality.
Hey MadRat, your welcome 😀
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
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