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I don't think adapting the larger SM-6 Block 1B* into an air-to-air missile would be worth the trouble. That's significantly more in-flight drag and weight which isn't a problem on a ship but is when being carried on an aircraft.The idea that the Block 1B was originally (and perhaps exclusively) intended for ASuW doesn't seem to make much sense to me. What is the point of such redesign for what is a very secondary use of the Standard SAMs? Fielding something like the LRASM-B would provide a vastly more capable AShM.*I had mistakenly written Block 1A earlier
I don't think adapting the larger SM-6 Block 1B* into an air-to-air missile would be worth the trouble. That's significantly more in-flight drag and weight which isn't a problem on a ship but is when being carried on an aircraft.
The idea that the Block 1B was originally (and perhaps exclusively) intended for ASuW doesn't seem to make much sense to me. What is the point of such redesign for what is a very secondary use of the Standard SAMs? Fielding something like the LRASM-B would provide a vastly more capable AShM.
*I had mistakenly written Block 1A earlier
