so? how many MICAs were fired on real targets? nad when F-35 comes to service, thingies like the meteor would have been in se’rvice for several years already, much better weapon.
That’s exactly what I said myself. How do you know that MICA/R 77/R 27 would perform better? In fact, considering that few countries can test missiles as exhaustively as US, one can be sure that non-US missiles would do worst. And the AMRAAM D (now fielded on F 22 and F 18E) or future JDRAM are not the same as AMRAAM “A” or “B”, the only ones that have been used in anger so far. So judging the Pk of a new missile such the “D” based on Pk of earlier variants is childish.
And you’ll fire the AMRAAM D against what? even the eurocanards present sufficiently low observable targets that you may have trouble radar locking at a long range. And if you count on an AWACS doing the job for you (finding your target and giving coordinates for shoooting), that can work either way too.
US planes vs. Euros is not a very plausible scenario. However, as unlikely it may seem, let’s fantasize about: if you consider that the VLO and sensors of F 22/F35 are matched by EF/Rafale, yes “it can work either way too”…
Well, B-17s downed loads of messerschmitts in WWII, were they good fighters? The F-105 is a strike aircraft. If a Mig presents itself in front of it and doesn’t pay attention enough, a good pilot can line it up and score a kill… if the Mig starts turning to fight it, the F-105 had only one way to deal with it: run. They simply were made for another type of job.
F 105 was not a bomber with 10 machine guns spreaded along the fuselage. It’s a fighter bomber, less maneuvrable than a MiG; still this didn’t stop the 105 to shot down MiGs.
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