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Well the B-2 isn't really needed and there are only 20ish of them, yet it's still used.

http://www.stripes.com/mobile/news/critics-wonder-could-the-f-22-s-skin-be-the-problem-1.178674

One of the studies mentioned that F-22s were even less likely to be deployed to a warzone than B-2s. http://nation.time.com/2011/04/17/the-strange-case-of-the-nearby-but-missing-f-22s-over-libya/

Ambiguity isn't important if you're just trying to get the missile within ball-park so that it can home itself.

I don't think so but the engine has been ground tested and I'm assuming they didn't just build it for a laugh.

What about lock after launch? Use the superior aircraft radar to track the target and guide the missile using that until such time as the missile radar can pick it up. Several radar-guided SAMs don't even have a radar in the missile itself.

And presumably you have all the classified data on the T-50 radar operation. If it can sniff it out maybe it can track it to. If you don't know where to point them, how can you sweep any specific area with sharper sensors, unless the L Band provides this information somehow? I don't know either because of the lack of data but it's a lot of effort to go to just to tell you that something is somewhere. Half decent intuition would tell you as much when in combat.

Seems out of perspective. The plane in th background is behind the crane. May be some reflections.

The deployment costs have been hotly debated pretty much everywhere.

That runs contrary to what I read. The EJ230 was definitely going on during Tranche 3, the only question was whether it'd be 3A or 3B. http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eurojet_EJ200&stable=0&shownotice=1 I guess we'll see.

Not to war zones it would seem.

Wonder what they'd sell them on for. If they're just scrapping them, I'll have one.:pilotfly:

And having a really intensive maintenance program that makes it almost impossible to deploy anywhere.

The EJ230 is a Tranche 3 upgrade.

Use several updates to get the missile within about 10 miles, it's own homing will do the job from there, since the approaching aircraft will no longer be stealthy at that range.

I knew someone would find it useful one day.

If you use the missile in a fire and forget capacity but if you provide a mid-flight update then things differ.

:megalol::megalol::megalol: I can't be the only one who finds this funny???

RPG Fishing

Badly damped control response?