The Raven
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Thank you for being brutally honest about defencies
99% of the posters including semior elite members would never dare say we dont have HMD or HOBS or the F16 will soon become outdated without massive USA intervention upgrade to keep them relevant
All we get china will do this AND PL15 means this , we have 128 Thunders . Yes but you have left out HMD/HOBS maws and Aesa radar. Now you get Block 3 you buy just 30 .. Not even 50
Dog fighting will be vital
Bvr will crucial but no one is taking out planes from 100+ KM away certainly not regularly .
Amraam SD10 PL15 v R771 R27E Astra Derby Mica Meteore .
PL10E v Python Asraam & R73
For a "born and bred Brit with a blue passport", you sure do have some very poor English skills...in fact, the style of your prose gives you away as a banana boat immigrant. Your English skills wouldn't even pass the British Naturalisation Test.
No the first encounter with Typhoons took place in 2008, before the arrival of the AMRAAMs....while the manoeuvres with Saudi Typhoons and Eagles happened much more recently....after our F-16s had gone through MLU . And i believe the earlier F-16s are very much equipped with MAWS.
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Those are not MAWS, that's the RWR. MAWS work in the optical UV or IR spectrum, RWR are radar emitter sensors.
IR/UV based MAWS are capable of detecting either Fox2 or Fox3 missiles from standoff ranges, whereas RWRs can only detect Fox3 missiles when they've gone "Pitbull" and are emitting from their radar seeker heads, at much closer ranges, typically only a few sec of flight time away from the target aircraft.. Hence why MAWS are so valuable in A2A engagements. Current gen IR MAWS such as the DAS system on the F-35 can also work as IRST sensors picking up aircraft from long ranges - the Block III has improved IR MAWS from the UV based in the Block I/II.
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