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The Best Air-to-Air Missile in the World Is in Sweden
AIM-120D model of Americas AMRAAM.Missile manufacturers are notoriously coy when it comes to releasing details of the their products performance. What little MBDA has said regarding Meteor indicates a range significantly greater than 62 miles and sustained speeds of at least Mach 4. By contrast, in its official fact sheet the U.S. Air Force attributes the early-model AIM-120 with a range of 20-plus miles and supersonic speed. The AIM-120D version should extend the baseline range by around 50 percent. The actual effective ranges of both the Meteor and the AMRAAM are very likely to be well in excess of published figures. Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-07-25 |
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