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The fact that they expressed the desired solution as a further development of the AIM-9X that would require development of unknown systems which leads to not knowing if it can be achieved leads me to that conclusion.If they simply wanted a medium range IIR missile then they could have simply added the 9x seeker to the AMRAAM body and been done with it. If they wanted to up it's off-rail maneuverability then they could have spent a little amount of dev cash and developed TVC for it in the same fashion as the 9x.The only reason to eek out some range imporvments without expanding the missile size is if that the missile size is your overriding limitation.Anyways, that's what I was thinking.
The fact that they expressed the desired solution as a further development of the AIM-9X that would require development of unknown systems which leads to not knowing if it can be achieved leads me to that conclusion.
If they simply wanted a medium range IIR missile then they could have simply added the 9x seeker to the AMRAAM body and been done with it. If they wanted to up it's off-rail maneuverability then they could have spent a little amount of dev cash and developed TVC for it in the same fashion as the 9x.
The only reason to eek out some range imporvments without expanding the missile size is if that the missile size is your overriding limitation.
Anyways, that's what I was thinking.
