That HAS to be right.

hahaha

But “oh its not our fight...let the rebels and Ass(h)a(t) fight it out.”

Tracking range on what radar though? You mean those lower band search radars that don’t guide missiles? :)

It doesn’t even matter if the missile can reach the target, but what about the radar doing midcourse and possibly terminal guidance for it?

You deserve a cookie, a beer, and 100 stars.

The SAMs are a bigger threat than the AAMs, IMO...

That 400km range is vs ballistic targets, IIRC.

Compromised?

Canada’s making some short sighted decisions that they’ll probably regret/change later...

Ahh, see what you meant there now! :)

Uh-huh, and F-15C is mach 2.5 capable, actually, NASA got their F-15B up to mach 2.7...That’s clean, and you’re limited to 60 seconds/above 50,000ft.

Fly-away price.

The F-35 is in production though...unless you’re talking as if Block 4+ full production is the only production. :)

Wrong, actually...being able to use AIM-120s on the internal A/A stations is what it will actually be doing most of the time - in US service at least. When was the last time you needed more than 2 AAMs for self escort? When BVR missiles had a ~0.2 Pk?

Got me there on the first bit, was going to edit that out haha! I even SAID it was IOC in ‘05. I’ll see if I can edit that and point out my full retard... :)

You could have done that 15-20 years ago, its too late for that BS now.

The F-22 bombed crap back in 2013...I see what you’re trying to say here, but you/we simply don’t know when the F-22 was ready for combat.

F-35C IOC in mid-late 2018 is quite a while?

lol