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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.

Comment Re:You missed one. (Score 1) 321

You clearly didn't read the post to which I was responding

True that.

Combined with AWACS to give battle control

What's the status on the F-22 datalink? Has anything changed since May when I last checked?

As for AWACS, I don't really see it mattering. World+dog has some form of it now and there are also long-range anti-radiation missiles good enough to put such aircraft on the run. So, they have shifted to a more defensive role.

Syrian no-fly zone: the place is so dense with antiaircraft defenses that there aren't really enough cruise missiles to do the job and inevitably manned planes have to fly in and take out the targets, putting them at risk

The Israelis seemed to manage just fine. I keep hearing about this Suter thing which is supposed to be the be-all-end-all of EW suites.

Comment Re:You missed one. (Score 1) 321

Since you know so much, what is the stated Pk of the AMRAAM against uncooperative targets at maximum range? How about the AMRAAM-D?

let's say that it's one F-22 and a dozen F-15s

Let's not, this is not how they are used right now and will never be.
You do realize that if you pair up the F-22 with non-stealth planes, the stealth advantage of the flight, as a whole, is nullified, do you not?

Against MiG-23s

What? No credible strategic threat to the US fields those relics.

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