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How a new missile has brought back the lost era of US Navy Top Gun dominance
The Air Force is developing its own very-long-range air-to-air missile, the AIM-260 – and is also developing its own command-and-control network so that fighters can take advantage of the new ...
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US Navy's newest air-to-air missile AIM-174B could tilt balance in South China Sea
The secretive Lockheed Martin AIM-260, a separate U.S. Air Force program to develop an extremely long-range air-to-air missile small enough for stealth aircraft to carry internally, has been in ...
Extended Range AIM-120s, AIM-9s Eyed To Meet Future Air-to-Air Missile Demands
The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy could soon be tasked with exploring whether extending the range of existing AIM-120 and AIM-9 air-to-air missiles is one path to help right-size stocks of those ...
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The US wants to arm fighters with these new long-range missiles to hunt down China and Russia's best jets
The US military is developing a new, longer-range air-to-air missile amid growing concerns that China's advanced missiles outrange those carried by US fighters. The AIM-260 air-to-air missile ...