I love the invincibility mindset of these fellow Americans. Hardly the case, and that mindset will get you into quick trouble.
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Originally Posted by Steel_Tomb
They say "ripple off slammers at its maximum range" wtf? They would miss! All movement costs energy, when an aircraft is engaged it will get a RWR warning and turn cold, which shortens the weapons effective envelope. It would run out of energy and just fall to the ground, no chance of a kill from that range it just doesn't have the energy to reach a maneuvering target from RMAX.
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2 things make this plausable - 1 is that RMAX works since the target won't be manuavering since this won't even know a missile is in flight untis the AMRAAM turns on its seeker - already too late at this point.
The F-22's AESA radar doesn't scan like you are used to - it is not mechanical like the old days and modifies its wavelength continuously. It will allow an F-22 to look at them without their RWR going off for one (the RWR never gets a solid signal and treats it as noise), and two, the F-22 is feeding the data to the B-1R's who launch on this shared data, so no one expects anything until the RWR's start going off for AMRAAM's in their terminal phase - panic time!
#3 - you are also dealing with AIM-120D's with a max range of 120 nmi.
-S