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2014-07-25 Science & Technology

The Best Air-to-Air Missile in the World Is in Sweden

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-07-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

The Swedish M45 [Swedish-K] wasn't bad either. Legibly writing one's nick in 9mm on a large target was not soon forgotten.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-25 07:10|| 2014-07-25 07:10|| Front Page Top

#2 ...This is one reason why the USAF and USN have been surprisingly unworried by the supposed inability of the F-35 to dogfight: with datalink from E-2s, E-3s, and Other Sources, the -35 doesn't have to. They'll be whacking the bad guys from fifty miles out and the targets won't know a thing till it's all over.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2014-07-25 07:40|| 2014-07-25 07:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Mike, that sounds an awful lot like the reasoning I heard about why the Phantom didn't need guns 50 years ago.

Hey, our missles will get them, no dog fights no more. How'd that work out?

Maybe there'll come a day, but is it now?

Posted by AlanC 2014-07-25 08:14|| 2014-07-25 08:14|| Front Page Top

#4 So 40 years later we are catching up to the capabilities of the AIM-54 Phoenix?

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2014-07-25 10:39|| 2014-07-25 10:39|| Front Page Top

#5 AIM 54 was unreliable, expensive and needed a big jet.

Posted by Zorba Fleresh4606 2014-07-25 12:24|| 2014-07-25 12:24|| Front Page Top

#6 What AlanC said. Spent five years hauling around a 20mm pod until the E model came along. What was old is new again.

Posted by Total War 2014-07-25 12:47|| 2014-07-25 12:47|| Front Page Top

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