How do you reconcile the fact the real missile is not that great, to the point at least two are often fired to try and increase PK, in some cases, three? Not only that, but pilots generally don’t fire them truly BVR because of the very low PK? The most well-known employments of AIM-120 are all fired at ranges less than 10 nm (or WVR), and then multiple missiles were fired to ensure a kill.
In other words, the real thing is pretty darn lousy, so why is BMS still massively over-modelled?
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Tango.