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You do know the American fighter involved was a Super Hornet and not an Eagle, right? Also that to say that the Su-22 "evaded" the X-Sidewinder fired at it is perhaps not the best descriptor of a ground attack aircraft that popped off flares and saw the missile go stupid.We the public don't actually know why the AIM-9X failed. There's theories that it's the old "dirty Russian flare" problem of the AIM-9P come back to haunt the Navy. There's also theories it just... broke. The only people who know are Raytheon and the Navy.
You do know the American fighter involved was a Super Hornet and not an Eagle, right? Also that to say that the Su-22 "evaded" the X-Sidewinder fired at it is perhaps not the best descriptor of a ground attack aircraft that popped off flares and saw the missile go stupid.
We the public don't actually know why the AIM-9X failed. There's theories that it's the old "dirty Russian flare" problem of the AIM-9P come back to haunt the Navy. There's also theories it just... broke. The only people who know are Raytheon and the Navy.
