Originally Posted by
The Sultan
Lone
The FLRAA is a 280+ Kt aircraft and not a 30 yr old 120 kt or slower design.
Sorry, 280 knots is still
slow.
There is
a rate change that takes a lot more speed to make a difference to a seeker head with tech that is two generations older than what is available now.
What feels like a radical maneuver in that cockpit looks pathetic to the seeker head.
(Granted, I am sure that old OV-10 Bronco hands may have a tew things to say about this).
I believe the avoidance technique is still to pop chaff and flares and then be somewhere else when the missile arrives.
I expect that's still true. Without various countermeasures
and a change in all three axes,
evasion isn't even a useful term.