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    F-22 gets new air to air missiles

    F-22 gets new air to air missiles

    Their target envelope will be greatly expanded. That is a great asset in a dog fight.

    [COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]The US Air Force is now integrating new weapons onto 143 F-22s to massively expand their target envelope, air-to-air attack range and lock-on-launch precision -- to preserve the widely held belief that the stealth fighter is the most advanced and dominant air-to-air fighter ever to exist.

    [/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)][/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]F-22s will be able to track and destroy enemy targets flying behind them, hit air targets with much greater force, precision and destructive power and include new GPS jam-resistant technologies, developers explain.

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    [COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)][/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]Actual integration of the new, upgraded weapons -- which include the AIM-9X and AIM-120D missiles -- begins this May, according to the 2018 Air Force Annual Acquisition Report. The weapons expansion is part on an ongoing, multi-year upgrade called 3.2B during which the weapons improvements were prototyped, tested, demonstrated and validated. Now, the Air Force Report says - they are operational and ready for war.

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    [COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)][/COLOR][COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]*“*The F-22 Increment 3.2B program upgrades the F-22A with the latest air-to-air weaponry (AIM-9X and AIM-120D), adds additional electronic protection techniques to guard against emerging threats and improves the network-centric warfare capabilities of the aircraft,” the Air Force annual aquisition report states.[/COLOR]
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    Let's hope they are never needed. There is a fascinating read on wars and the insanity of them, it details the mishaps and misunderstandings of WWi for instance. A tough read in a sense but important too.

    “Sir Edward Grey echoed this: More than one true thing may be said about the causes of the war, but the statement that comprises most truth is that militarism and the armaments inseparable from it made war inevitable. Armaments were intended to produce a sense of security in each nation – that was the justification put forward in defence of them. What they really did was to produce fear in everybody.”

    Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century


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