@Hielor, it was still in the same mindset that there would be 'no-dogfights' if you could have stand off weapons, as history shows, you cannot bank on that.
Standoff weapons have come a long way in 50 years.
In modern engagements, dogfights are sufficiently rare that it makes exactly zero sense to invest time and money to R&D equipment that will only be useful during a dogfight.
True, but countermeasure technology and stealth materials have come a long way too. Every plane fighter or interceptor still has a cannon of some calibre just in case.
A laser guided mid-calibre turret wouldn't be a bad thing to have on the tail of a jet doing dogfights. Doesn't take a whole lot of firepower to breach a cockpit...
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' Wrote:A laser guided mid-calibre turret wouldn't be a bad thing to have on the tail of a jet doing dogfights. Doesn't take a whole lot of firepower to breach a cockpit...
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your better off throwing a dozen frag nades at your enemy then try make a missile fire backwards
and IF that missile , the R-73 were to be fired backwards at say a MIG, then the MIG just have to kick in the afterburner and it will hit Mach 2.4 before the missile can catch up
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