Originally Posted by
ICBM
If you did find yourself in a turning fight one would hope that even if the advanced sensors didn't allow you to merge with advantage, modern missile capability would put the fight in your favour.
That's at least what the LM marketing department suggests.
My problem with that is that (at least in a stealthy configuration with only internally carried weapons) F-35 can't employ AIM-9X and is consequently at the moment not planned (budget wise) to be equipped with them.
So once out of the inner AMRAAM envelope you'r in deep s**t vs a HOBS IR missile equipped opponent.
I'm not sure about ASRAAM for the UK version though.