Ofc it does, it’s a different missile philosophy, 50g and TVC no wonder it’s a good missile for min range engagements…
And that’s something that won’t change until next gen IR missiles are introduced. Seeing that testing is effectively being done with those ground based platforms, I think we can expect them by the end of the yearly
The MICA IR and EM would end up having better performances at short range than all fox 3s, while having better long range performances than most fox1s, without excelling in any metric, which would make things a lot more fair in my opinion