16-02-2024, 04:54 PM
(16-02-2024, 04:48 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: The R-73 is an infrared homing (heat-seeking) missile with a sensitive, cryogenic cooled seeker with a substantial "off-boresight" capability:F-16 replaces for F-18? (Yes)
Seeker can detect targets up to 40° off missile's centerline. It can be targeted by a helmet-mounted sight (HMS) allowing pilots to designate targets by looking at them...![]()
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Final F-18 Hornets U.S. Navy were replaced for F-16s?, still a handful still serve in U.S. Marine Corps. Something to note F-18, it’s essentially a derivative of YF-17 design, U.S. turned down in 1975, favoring F-16.
YF-17 itself significantly design is for F-5 fighter, a model saw old service in 1961 Vietnam War. U.S. Navy F-18 primarily due to dual enginecrucially reduced risk of crashes, a fundamental requirement for aircraft carrier operations....
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Service history, F-18 faced two types of foreign fighters in air-to-air combat — Soviet MiG-21 & MiG-25, flown by Iraqi Air Force. F-18 emerged victorious in both encounters with former, while it did not succeed in its lone engagement with the latter.
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/02/15...-decision/