fair enough, i don’t play sim
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Unfortunate, UK-France joint missile programs make great missiles. I don’t know why they can’t still fund Meteor MLU with France and continue with their FASE program. Luckily Stratus program still seems to be alive.
i wonder if america is investing in ramjets with the LREW. aim260 was designed for stealth fighters, a ramjet missile would just be too ineffective for the weapon bays of the fighters. but on a non stealth platform such as the f15 or even f16 combined with DL on awacs could be a advantage of keeping 4th gen aircraft
Not sure I understand where this is coming from. The meteor is roughly the same size as the AIM120, and the air intakes aren’t taking a lot of space, unless you wanted to stack them on top of each other, which I think is already not the case for the AIM120
Meteor’s wingspan is like 600-700mm while AMRAAMs is like 480-520mm, according to google’s search Ai, if thats correct, its a BIG difference
wings on meteor can be cropped to fit in a bay
In any case the ramjet intakes don’t really have an impact on the wingspan, so Vizender isn’t wrong on this one i’d say
From what is currently known :
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Comet is the french interim solution - quick development on known tech - and most likely an enlarged MICA NG, you could see it as a modern 530D
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FASE will be done in cooperation, but only with 2 countries (France and UK). Meteor MLU could have been abandonned for several reasons : not future-proof enough against large eastern missiles, and necessarily requiring the 6 countries that developped meteor to be around the table, which could have taken some time, time there is not considering the current context
from the source shared by @Pvt_Wade : UK axes Meteor upgrade in favour of new FASE missile
(I’m not bri’ish, i hope this is a reliable source)
The decision also follows the memorandum of understanding signed by the UK and France on 1 April to conduct a 12-month joint study into a Meteor successor, a deliverable of the Lancaster House 2.0 treaty that will assess the future threat environment, identify candidate technologies and set a development roadmap, overseen by a new joint Complex Weapons Portfolio Office.
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