AIM-120C-5 Effective range in BVR high altitude

Hi, im a little new to the BVR meta so I’m just wondering how many clicks my average launch should be on, have been trying to launch within 45km but haven’t gotten many hits yet, but still seem to be launched on before that range. Just looking for some pointers.

In this post I do a break down of how to read the radar and its ability to give you launch parametres dynamically

as it is very subject to what you are doing and what the enemy aricraft is doing.

but unless you are doing Mach 1.5+ at like 20k ft, Id rarely fire over 20-25km

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It also really depends on the enemies experience. You could fire all 4 AMRAAM perfectly and not get a hit bc they know how to notch.

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bvr and meta in the same sentence. anyways how i get kills is get a sustained mach 1.05 climb upto 35,000 ft / 10km. then from there gain speed wait till the enemy is with 30 miles / 45km? point your nose up to 45 degrees and launch. the manual lofting helps the missile build and maintain energy