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But perhaps you need big missiles if you want them to fly fast and have a lot of range. I'm just a layperson but this has always been my understanding. Mo
by JohnBooty 4y ago
But perhaps you need big missiles if you want them to
fly fast and have a lot of range.
I'm just a layperson but this has always been my understanding. Modern air combat is all about firing from beyond visual range, so I think they optimize pretty strongly for that.
See my other answer, though - air to air missiles ARE generally (always) proximity fuzed. They don't need to precisely impact the target, they just need to get close.
- XorNot 4y agoMore then that, air-to-air missiles generally are designed to blow a load of metal shrapnel through whatever they "hit": so there's a problem where if you're fleeing from a missile and it explodes behind you, even though it "missed" the payload can still hit the plane it was chasing if the plane doesn't change trajectory.