Thanks for the heads-up Markus, but that cannot possibly be right. Assuming a fuel fraction of 40% that's 74kg, and it seems unlikely this amount would propell a 110kg body 320km at a max speed of Mach 4 and arrive on target at speeds well above Mach 1.
The source of the information is the AMRAAM's no-escape zone. Seems someone just multiplied the max stated range of a late-production AMRAAMs and came up with 200nm. But this is not the right way to do it. Uhm yeah and max range and no-escape zone is not exactly the same thing hehe.
The Meteor has about
three times the sustainer performance compared to a conventional rocket motor. Simply put, this means if the sustainer on the ARAAM runs for 20 seconds, the Meteor can run for 60 sec. When the fuel is out, both missiles will glide and deaccelerate in pretty much the same way. The extra 40 seconds on sustainer for the Meteor will not take it 125-150nm further.
In any case we've done most of the research for a new propulsion model for Command that will improve things quite a bit and make the advantages of the ramjet motor clearer.
Thanks
