Future air wars will be fought with real time human controlled drone planes that can out turn a human occupied airplane. These new Radio controlled airplanes will be flown over enemy territory by an US operator sitting in a air conditioned war room back in the States or on some foreign soil US air base.
Right now the USA's biggest concern should be preventing Russia or China or anyone else for that matter taking out our GPS satellites in fixed orbits. We should be developing space based weapons that will defend or gps satellites. This program hopefully is covertly under way right now. Hopefully it's a secrete program that's been in development for a long time and is fully functional now. Because we need to keep a close eye on China and Russia if we want to preserve our way of life and keep the oil flowing to the USA from the Middle East.
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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
By the way - a drone is much different than a pilot who not only can see the threat, but also has a huge interest in self preservation! Any pilot well versed in missile avoidance could probably defeat an AIM-54 with decent success.
By the way, the MiG-25 in question had two AIM-54's fired at it. One at less than 20 nm, and the other at 40 nm when it was clear the first missed. They both ended up missing. There was a second engagement that I remember, which also missed.
-S
PS. The F-14's radar can engage 6 targets simultaneously, and track 24.
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