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2017-06-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-

How Did a 30-Year-Old Jet Dodge the Pentagon's Latest Missile?

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Posted by gorb 2017-06-27 10:41|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Not really. Most IR missiles can be faked out by flares. A lot of the chance of success depend on aspect ratio, intercept paths, etc. If the 9X came in from the front and the jet broke so the flares are the only thing the missile really sees, any IR missile will fail to track. A behind shot is still be best chance at a shootdown with an IR missile.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-06-27 11:02|| 2017-06-27 11:02|| Front Page Top

#2 As Ben Rich at the Skunk Works said,"That's why they call them missiles and not hittles."

Posted by ed in texas 2017-06-27 11:15|| 2017-06-27 11:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Fake ~~news~~ opinion.

The Navy never said whether a AIM-9X or 9M (non-Imaging IR sensor) was used. The 9M is known to be susceptible to flares.

The Navy also didn't say which version of the AIM-120 shot down the SU-22.

Posted by Whusoque Flinemble2273 2017-06-27 11:26|| 2017-06-27 11:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Article: According to CNN, ... The Super Hornet launched an AIM-9X,

CNN: Immediately after the Syrian Su-22 fighter jet dropped its bombs, two American F/A-18E Super Hornets, flying from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, engaged, firing a AIM-9 Sidewinder -- a short-range air-to-air missile -- at the Syrian plane from about half a mile away, two US officials told CNN.
New details on US shoot down of Syrian jet

Posted by Whusoque Flinemble2273 2017-06-27 11:32|| 2017-06-27 11:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Mile and a half is a little close, isn't it?

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-06-27 11:38|| 2017-06-27 11:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Navy said the AIM-9 was fired from 1/2 mile away.

Author's batting average is .000

Posted by Whusoque Flinemble2273 2017-06-27 11:54|| 2017-06-27 11:54|| Front Page Top

#7 This F/A-18E fired a AIM-9 and AIM-120 to down the Syrian Su-22

Posted by Whusoque Flinemble2273 2017-06-27 12:00|| 2017-06-27 12:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Just a typical low IQ "journalist" using unpaid interns to research an area of knowledge none of them have a clue about.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-06-27 15:56|| 2017-06-27 15:56|| Front Page Top

#9 JEM lines radically different.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-06-27 18:14|| 2017-06-27 18:14|| Front Page Top

#10 ...There's been some evidence that the Hornet driver may have been up against or inside the -9's minimum limits - if that was the case, when the Fitter driver saw it he dumps flares and starts to maneuver, and he's got a better than usual chance of breaking the lock.

Not like it really helped him much in the end.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-06-27 18:55|| 2017-06-27 18:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Adventurous pilots split-essing,
Decisively diving but guessing,
Without any retries,
The seats of your Levis
Might find this manoeuvre distressing.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-06-27 23:32|| 2017-06-27 23:32|| Front Page Top

#12 On top of his loop, he was chucklin',
"So far, so good." Suddenly, Stricklin!
The buzzard had landed.
And where was it stranded?
A large garbage barge outta Brooklyn.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-06-27 23:47|| 2017-06-27 23:47|| Front Page Top

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