That’s referring to TOP speed, which is usually during terminal. It cannot do that top speed the entire transit time because of how the motor burns, and there’s no way the thing carries enough fuel to do Mach 4 the entire time while in atmosphere AND achieve similar ranges when in a roughly similar body to the AIM-120. Simply put.
true but mach 2 is a lowball to say the least, and mach 4+ is the public number.
thats the number to go off, you can guess that the speed varies during flight time(slower acceleration because its a ramjet), but from that to say that it drops to half its publicly reported max speed is a massive stretch to say the least.
Everybody is talking about meteor and PL-15, and nobody remember PL-12 and AIM120C5…
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Tbh it was a overly worried post. C-5 is looking worse and worse as time goes on. Doesnt really solve any of the issues with the aim120