The whole Taildog / SRAAM family gets more and more complicated the more you look into it. There are so many different names, variants, and proposals.
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I can imagine lol, Britains missiles all seem to have very complicated, but still interesting histories
We can get ASRAAM on F-16 and F-35. And iirc there was USN involvement in Australia F/A-18 ASRAAM integration so if a US hornet was used to test we could get it on that even
Aim9x is getting its blk3 upgrade finally the navy decided to pursue it after it was canceled in 2016. The blk3 upgrades consist of a 6th-generation seeker and a new motor for more range and to accelerate faster than the blk 2. So aim9x might not be the weakest anymore.
AIM-9Z when?
Problem is Blk 3 AIM-9X Will be competing with Block 6 ASRAAM (and IIRC a Block 2 IRIS-T has been announced).
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Hopefully peregrine missile goes somewhere
Man, screw all these modern missiles, where are the ultra early ones?
Ruhrstahl X-4
AAM-A-1 Firebird
K-5 (AA-1 Alkali)
R.510
AA.25
etc.
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Who knows honestly it still could be worse or it could be on a similar level but this upgrade needed to happen to bring aim9x up to par it was falling behind a bit.
US has been for a while. Meteor has been kicking Aim-120Ds butt for years
To be fair, the only thing they have been fighting in recent times were balloons
They manage to get some decent range out of the aim120s but yes aim120 has been behind Meteor for a while now. I’m curious to see the numbers on aim260 though.
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they are talking about making an even more extended range AIM-120 lol
AIM-26A when?
When they get back to creating campaigns and other such mission content
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so never
but its an early a2a missile
You can get your Falcon, but not the nuclear Falcon
not even a kiloton so not even all that OP
measly 250t
Actually, you can get your AIM-26 in form of the AIM-26B, though I don’t know if the US even used these themselves.
Switzerland and Sweden did tho as the HM-55 on the Mirage IIIS and the Rb 27 on certain Drakens respectively.
pretty sure we at least made/tested them if everyone else used a renamed version of them.
i would like YF-12 with AIM-47 and MiG-25 with R-40 for USA and USSR for earlyish missile interceptors. and the testbed B-58 with the AN/ASG-18 radar and AIM-47
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