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Old 15th Mar 2006, 15:15
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Hey, I don't have to kill anybody. It's called Lock On After Launch and was best summed up by the pilot-turned-manager who said "it's like putting a rottweiler in a sack, shaking him up a bit and tipping him out. He's gonna bite the first thing he sees."
The other way to do it is to stick the ASRAAM on a big honking extending rail and let it see the target before you light the blue touch-paper. Look at the AIM-9s on the F-22 (or IR AIM-4s on the F-106 for that matter), but to do that you can't carry internal bombs because you can't use the door mount on the JSF. And it would have a restricted view anyway (look at the F-22 again).
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