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Old 27th Apr 2024, 21:02
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I understand it comes from a early 2000's source touting F-22 for Australia v the proposed JSF (despite the 1998 congressional export ban) which probably accounts for the F-111. This was when the production run of the mighty balloon killer was to be 750 and the FB-22 was still a possibility. Also it predated the RAAF's interim replacement of F-111C with the Super Bug hence F/A-18A as a comparator.

I thought extreme agility plus low frontal RCS were supposed to be the SU-57's selling points and coupled with the R-37 it is designed for the role MB suggests, firing from extreme range behind its own SAM defences and sensor screen. Development of countermeasures particularly to disrupt mid-course updates and the seeker to limit the NEZ and means to take out the missile not the platform become the development goal. But AFAIK the monster only carries 4 AAMs.

Aren't AIM-260 JATM / LREW / Meteor and their Chinese equivalents intended to be used in a similar role on a variety of platforms? For Meteor this includes Typhoon, Rafale, Grippen and by 2027(hmm) F-35. But as ORAC says ROE (particularly Western ones) are likely to rule out any advantages of firing at extreme range, except in all out peer-to-peer conflict.
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