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During modern air combat, beside the pilot skill, the next important thing is the beyond visual range (BVR) capability of each fighter. This is determined by the avionics and medium range missile capability. F-22’s avionic is one generation more advanced than any Sukhoi family or whatever in Chinese inventory. However, the missiles are still quite comparable.
AIM-120 AMRAAM
F-22 probably has a most advanced missile. Its AIM-120D AMRAAM has a range 95 km, combined with a sophisticated avionics, makes F-22 a most lethal fighter. Russia R-77 (AA-12) although has been claimed to posses better maneuverability and range (175 km), it does not have any combat experience yet. Also, the avionics systems on board Sukhoi and Mig jet fighters are less proven than their American counterpart. On the other hand, China recently produce it latest missile, the SD-10 that is used in its J-10 and J-11 fighters. It has a range of 80 km, making it is comparable to AIM-120C.
By judging from the specification, R-77 could be the best BVR missile in service today. It only need some combat experience to prove its capability. AIM-120C had been used effectively during Kosovo and Iraq Wars. Lastly, SD-10, although still inferior to both American dan Russian have, has shown a great potential of Chinese future military technology.
also about the meteor.
METEOR offers a quantum leap in performance and will be the standard by which all other Air-to-Air missiles will be judged.
Operational requirement
METEOR is a highly flexible, visual and beyond visual range, agile, air-to-air weapon system that provides a comprehensive operational capability in the most complex combat scenarios
The MBDA solution
METEOR will engage air targets autonomously (whether fighters, bombers, transport aircraft, AWACS or cruise missiles) by using its active radar seeker by day or night and in all weather or dense electronic warfare environments.
METEOR is being developed by a winning European partnership comprising MBDA, INMIZE and Saab Bofors Dynamics. The programme is supported by Boeing.
METEOR’s ramjet propulsion system will ensure a range in excess of 100 km and a speed of more than Mach 4. Even when launched from extreme stand-off ranges, the missile will have the energy in the end game to defeat fast, manoeuvring targets. To ensure total target destruction, the missile is equipped with both proximity and impact fuzes and a fragmentation warhead that is detonated at the optimum point to maximise lethality.
The METEOR system will be compatible with Eurofighter Typhoon, Rafale, Gripen and with other advanced fighter aircraft such as JSF.
Status of programme
METEOR was ordered by the UK MoD and five other European nations (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden) to meet their future Air-to-Air requirements.
The METEOR contract which involved agreement by all six partner nations, was signed in December 2002. This agreement covers a fixed price contract for the development of METEOR, with production requirements being met on a nation by nation basis.
A full development programme, agreed by all six nations, is already in place and includes the key project milestones that will measure both progress and success. Development will be completed by 2010 followed by the introduction into service on Typhoon, Rafale and Gripen
http://yalun.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/the-best-air-to-air-missile-from-the-usa-russia-and-china/
AIM-120 AMRAAM
F-22 probably has a most advanced missile. Its AIM-120D AMRAAM has a range 95 km, combined with a sophisticated avionics, makes F-22 a most lethal fighter. Russia R-77 (AA-12) although has been claimed to posses better maneuverability and range (175 km), it does not have any combat experience yet. Also, the avionics systems on board Sukhoi and Mig jet fighters are less proven than their American counterpart. On the other hand, China recently produce it latest missile, the SD-10 that is used in its J-10 and J-11 fighters. It has a range of 80 km, making it is comparable to AIM-120C.
By judging from the specification, R-77 could be the best BVR missile in service today. It only need some combat experience to prove its capability. AIM-120C had been used effectively during Kosovo and Iraq Wars. Lastly, SD-10, although still inferior to both American dan Russian have, has shown a great potential of Chinese future military technology.
also about the meteor.
METEOR offers a quantum leap in performance and will be the standard by which all other Air-to-Air missiles will be judged.
Operational requirement
METEOR is a highly flexible, visual and beyond visual range, agile, air-to-air weapon system that provides a comprehensive operational capability in the most complex combat scenarios
The MBDA solution
METEOR will engage air targets autonomously (whether fighters, bombers, transport aircraft, AWACS or cruise missiles) by using its active radar seeker by day or night and in all weather or dense electronic warfare environments.
METEOR is being developed by a winning European partnership comprising MBDA, INMIZE and Saab Bofors Dynamics. The programme is supported by Boeing.
METEOR’s ramjet propulsion system will ensure a range in excess of 100 km and a speed of more than Mach 4. Even when launched from extreme stand-off ranges, the missile will have the energy in the end game to defeat fast, manoeuvring targets. To ensure total target destruction, the missile is equipped with both proximity and impact fuzes and a fragmentation warhead that is detonated at the optimum point to maximise lethality.
The METEOR system will be compatible with Eurofighter Typhoon, Rafale, Gripen and with other advanced fighter aircraft such as JSF.
Status of programme
METEOR was ordered by the UK MoD and five other European nations (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden) to meet their future Air-to-Air requirements.
The METEOR contract which involved agreement by all six partner nations, was signed in December 2002. This agreement covers a fixed price contract for the development of METEOR, with production requirements being met on a nation by nation basis.
A full development programme, agreed by all six nations, is already in place and includes the key project milestones that will measure both progress and success. Development will be completed by 2010 followed by the introduction into service on Typhoon, Rafale and Gripen
http://yalun.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/the-best-air-to-air-missile-from-the-usa-russia-and-china/
