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It would probably work on Battlefield 1.

It's practical in a situation where there's just been a head-on pass. The HOBS+LOAL missile can be fired after the enemy jet just before of just after the pass. Now in a typical merge there would be an opportunity to fire well before this but between ROEs and dogfight chaos, the situation could be different.

The launch platform vs target speed differential and distance are the same for both missiles but the missile being fired OTS has to do a 180deg turn, so it can't possibly have an advantage unless it has a massive inherent kinematic advantage besides.

That's also an issue with the cobra manoeuvre where missiles would go from flying sideways to flying forwards.

A KeyPubs magazine on stealth aircraft. A quick Google yielded this though. https://www.skytamer.com/5.8.htm http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/usafserials.html http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/2017.html http://www.joebaugher.com/coastguardseries.html http://users.rcn.com/jeremy.k/serialSearch.html This one looks fairly good. http://www.uswarplanes.net/index.html

I have a full list for the F-117 if that's of any use.

And why haven't you taken them out BVR?:lol:

The R-74M2 variant supposedly can but the R-74 is limited to +/-60deg and the R-74M +/-75deg. There doesn't seem to be any evidence that the M2 is operational yet though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-73_(missile)

Not all MAWS is IR/UV based. E.g. the Typhoon uses a radar-based MAWS. The direction of travel indicates whether it is a threat or not.

It's already been trialled. http://www.aero-farm.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=221766&an=&page=31&vc=1 But these days over-the-shoulder shots are possible with LOAL missiles anyway. The rearward mount doesn't really help because the aircraft is still flying forwards and rotating a pylon with a missile is tricky because of its length, so you would have to use up vital stores capacity with missiles pointing in the wrong direction.

Surely it's the MAWS/MLD that detects that.

SA-2 launchers had a spoofing ability as one SR-71 pilot recalled. They could pretend to be talking to a missile, but if the missile replied back, then you had a problem.

STT is Single Target Track. ARH missiles like AMRAAM have a 2-way link that tells the firer when the ARH head has locked, I guess for SARH the radar just waits until the target explodes and disappears off scope. http://www.tscm.com/rdr-mode.pdf

Occasionally I call it the F-29 Retaliator as a joke.:D

You're saying that it will be 2045 before there's a significant number of PAK-FAs or J-20s about?

And the F/B-23 was to replace the F-111. And a navy option.

Like the B-2, the F-22 'failed' in terms of affordability because they massively cut numbers. It takes exactly the same amount of development work to build 187 F-22s as it does 750 F-22s and if you divide the cost of that work by 187 instead of 750 guess what. Ditto for the B-2, divide the cost by 21 instead of 140 and same again. The end result is that the F-22 costs what the B-2 should have cost and the B-2 costs as much as an aircraft carrier (nearly). The other factor is that they tried to make the F-22 politically bulletproof by building bits and pieces in 41 different states, which just created a cluster**** that even Eurofighter GmbH would be proud of.

I remember long ago... when the sun was shining... and the stars were bright... all through the night... and 750 F-22s were planned.

It's actually the KM-SAM as it turns out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KM-SAM The 48H6E2 would not fit in those tubes.

It does but it's definitely an S-350 launcher.

No forward fins like 9M96E2???

Cool but it's a shame it isn't still attached to the aircraft so that you can do strafing runs over abandoned vehicles like with that heli-gunner experience.

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