Comment Re:You missed one. (Score 1) 321
played controller for the allied forces, using their more advanced (and presumably harder to track) radars to help guide in planes without their own radars on
So the data-link issue has been resolved.
presumably harder to track) radars
I think you can drop the "presumably", at least for a few years.
usually flying outside the range of any known air-to-air missile
Wikipedia claims that Vympel R-37 is being sold to Syria...
As I read it, only a few US aircraft have it, though Israel seems to have something similar (or maybe stolen)
I remember reading somewhere that its Israeli form is a mission pod, that it is made by Elisra.