The AIM-260 can be guided by AWACS to within ~5 km of target, where it then turns on it's own radar for final targeting. Generally, the expectation of a modern

The AIM-260 can be guided by AWACS to within ~5 km of target, where it then turns on it's own radar for final targeting. Generally, the expectation of a modern F-35 pilot is to act as a missile truck with the basic A2A/SEAD/CAP mission being to fly within a viable area to deploy the missile, release, get out of dodge. Of course, there are hundreds of counter-measures aimed at disrupting this mission, and counters of counters which the pilot must be an expert in.