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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch
Mach 4 for 40 seconds (not including deceleration) is about 52 km (32 miles).
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It only fly that fast when it has found its target. the missile has a two-way link to the fighter jet.(JAS39, has)
the propulsion is all using integrated rocket/ramjet propulsion(from same link about the missile)
what I understand it will use this ramjet until a few miles before the position of the target thereafter the rocket will kick in and the missile will increase rapidly in speed before hit.
The distance this missile can travel is not something I only have read on wiki-pages have also heard about in Swedish news program some years ago.
about the Meteor on JAS39 I found this information from FMV(Försvarets material verk=Swedish Defence Materiel Administration)
"During the fall, further work to be carried out in order to have the final delivery in 2014 Gripen will be the first aircraft is operating with the Meteor missile"
Markus