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Originally posted by masonwatcher
reply to post by TXMACHINEGUNDLR
Great! So now the next advance in missiles will a tandem pair. You send up at the F22, when it jinks and side steps the first it will met by the following missile.
Easier to put the pilot in a coma in the aircraft and let a robot fly it at 15+ G indefinitely.
Originally posted by RichardPrice
Originally posted by masonwatcher
reply to post by TXMACHINEGUNDLR
Great! So now the next advance in missiles will a tandem pair. You send up at the F22, when it jinks and side steps the first it will met by the following missile.
Easier to put the pilot in a coma in the aircraft and let a robot fly it at 15+ G indefinitely.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the next fullscale engagement between two world powers will see something only whispered about thus far - nuclear tipped surface to air missiles.
Sod trying to hit the aircraft, just get within 3 or 4 kilometers of it and detonate a 1 kiloton nuke - that aircraft is history.
I have no doubt that nuclear tipped SAMs are already in several countries arsenals.
This is why the general strategy to evading a missile is to turn 180 from its source and climb (in BVR).
I can now see as the 'next' evolution is the REMOVAL of the human pilot. I know we have RPV's flying currently but I do think the next generation of fighter aircraft will be computer or remotely driven...
how can you evade bvr, if craft is being tracked by landed radar? + maneuvering reduces speed.
While maneuvering does reduce speed, reducing speed when you are, generally, flying towards a missile, is better than continuing to fly towards it.
originally posted by: Naboo the Enigma
all modern air forces have AAMs capable of splatting a Raptor: they can travel much faster and don't have to worry about G whatsoever. Air combat manouvres do not defeat misssiles, counter measures do.
originally posted by: Forensick
a reply to: hellobruce
A resurrected 2008 thread about a fictional button