Originally Posted by
cokecan
is there any reason the US would be looking to avoid using a Ramjet engine on its AIM-260?
if Meteor is up and running, and apparently works, why would the US be looking to making life harder/more expensive by avoiding a technology that does what they need and instead looking to create something new?
(i know they are never going to buy Meteor in a million years - NIH - but why go the long way round..).
Because they can. The US is perfectly able to design and field tier one precision weapons, and would have no interest in getting out the ability to do so. It keeps the knowledge, jobs and procurement chain in house, for a program that could run decades. Once you step off the train it is very hard to get back on.