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irrelevant,that depends on engagement range,a force will be prefer a rocket motor powered missile for med range for better KE over ramjet,why?simply because rocket motors burn instantaneous impulse which is of higher order than sustained impulse of ramjet and in mid ranges by the time missile...

As per the official website,the NEZ is quite big compared to current rocket motor powered missiles.

didnt said anything like that,in 90s US had no threat against their forcemultipliers ,chinese were certainly not a threat then but they are now,with new pl series in development Us needs to out range and out perform those chinese models and as far per the news,they wont use ramjets and will use...

US bvr enagement tactic is totally around AMRAAM why on earth they will be move to sfdr and get all the experience in a snap...remind you,meteor was designed to replace british semi active radar guided missiles not AMRAAMs.

USA did came up in 90s ,with raytheon offering a ramjet powered a2a missile which was dusted due the cost and weight issue and since usa already had amraam which met their requirement and was getting regular upgrades. the oldest patent on sfdr was filled by the US in 1960. USN planned in late...

Oh no! No lead is slipping fast , Just compare the wt of latest AMRAAM with those russian and indian missiles....the level of automation and material tech is decades ahead against russian or indian missile. the latest amraam weighs 160kgs approx and offer over 160 km of range unclassified,while...

As far as i know,meteor has twice the NEZ compared to the latest AIM120D.

Indeed and it took a consortium of western countries more than 2 decades to come up with a missile which equals the performance of AMRAAM in terms of seeker,datalink,and electronics and excel in propulsion however one should know that the performace also depends upon the type of fuel with the...