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  1. DumbPilot

    Modern BVR Air Combat : Tactics, Effectiveness & Myths

    Here's a 1992 engagement from a twoship US F-16 and a twoship Iraqi MiG-25s, by the no fly zone enforced then. The F-16 fires the AIM-120 at around 2.5-3 ish nautical miles, which is already at Rmin for this missile, flying at those sort of speeds and closure rates - even then, the AIM120 does...
  2. DumbPilot

    Modern BVR Air Combat : Tactics, Effectiveness & Myths

    It doesn't, indeed, but a NEZ launch has a significantly more probability of kill against the bandit. The SPJ is supposed to deny guidance onto the Sukhoi, however the AMRAAM having a robust HOJ capability - this effectively means that jamming is counter-intuitive to the purpose of defeating...
  3. DumbPilot

    Modern BVR Air Combat : Tactics, Effectiveness & Myths

    Doesn't the AIM-120C have HOJ(home-on-jam) capabilities, though? This would make trying to evade a NEZ launch very ardous task.
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