To my knowledge, AIM-7 was guided by continuous wave illumination. That means the radar would quite neccessarily be in STT (Single Target Tracking) mode.

To be able to guide two missiles at once, the radar would have to have two dishes.

Whatever the exact name and origin of the planes, RIP the crews and people on the ground who were in the wrong place at the wrong time when the plane went down.

actually on paper it would have been the better airplane by a fair margin too. Reason it lost was mostly because of the technological risks that resulted from the big disparity between the demonstrator prototype and the proposed final article.

do you mean this:

or this

In the latter case, there were supposed to be baffles in the inlet channels that were to be coated with ram. The prototype didnt have these. The greater difference between the x-32 and the final article is one of the reasons it lost the competition.

unlikely. those overwing intakes would choke at the slightest hint of positive G

Didnt they have some sort of gunnery autopilot that made either the plane fly such that the gun would be superhumanly accurate, or fire the gun only when the computer says there will be hits? What are the details of this system? The source of this si IIRC a 90’s game manual, so not very reliable i know lol. 😀

Most if not all of the euro stuff is made by comittee. Multiple parties get to have their say in both the requirements and eventual implementation of a design. All those different parties have their own hobby horses, needs and interests. Almost every euro design is therefore a compromise.