Questionable, I’ve seen 300-400km estimates more. This makes it pretty similar to AIM-174B and being an SM-6 it should be extremely versatile and capable
Just raise the BRs of those vehicles by one or two steps. It’s better for all nations to have top BR counterparts than counterparts at all BRs under that.
I still think that would then render a lot of aircraft DOA.
The only one I can really think of that would suffer by any reasonable amount would be the F-16D, and even then the fact that it’s an F-16 would make it do well enough.
Hmmm… looking through actually. Would be
Kfir C10
J-8F
JF-17
Most nations do use AMRAAMs…
Hmm…
Give it P-4s.
Give it PL-5E2s.
That would be fine at 13.7 with buffed PL-12s.
Then that might not be too bad then.
Though I do also wonder which aircraft should get the Aim-120C5s themselves.
A few obvious ones like the Typhoon. But I do wonder about things like the F3 Late
Why not an F3 really late or something
If the current Typhoons are to get them, the T1 bl 5 should be added with the current A2A loadout to fill the gap. As for the Tornado, the FSP should be added with AIM-120C-5s and later ASRAAMs.
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Well.
We can have F3 late with Aim-120C5s
The F3 Extra late with Aim-120C5s and ASRAAM
Then finally the F3 super late which has CAPTOR-M, IRST, HMD, EJ200 and a few others
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Flawless naming system
What Tornado has those?
I already think they should do that just for things like CAPTOR-E.
Would make the most sense. FGR4 for example is the in-service aircraft so limiting it to F2 standards is wierd
SM-6, as a surface to air missile equipped on fighter jets, can never be compared to specialized air-to-air missiles such as R37 or PL17,Its long range is entirely due to the fast acceleration of surface to air missiles, which cannot match the specially optimized long-range air-to-air missiles
So I’m not optimistic about AIM173
Spoiler
Planned upgrade that never happened
The FGR.4 designation covers every single seat variant from the T2 onward.
Not going to happen, then.
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Yep, and Britain continuously upgraded them, In fact they are retiring “T1s” that arent compatible with the CAPTOR-E upgrades currently
SM-6 can do a hell of a lot more than PL-17. It’s an inherently more versatile missile since it was designed that way
Having the new ones be called FGR.4 (T3), et cetera, is a much better idea in my opinion.