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- noun Plural form of
AAM .
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Examples
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Only anti-aircraft SAMs and AAMs can save her now.
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Even if equipped with fighter avionics and AAMs, you're still only going to be left with a psuedo-Missileer, but more dead.
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This is especially so since, in any aspect except head-on, even an expensively RAM- and avionics-refitted F-111 is a flying "barn door", easily detected by pursuing SAMs and engaged by enemy fighters with LR AAMs well outside the range of Kopp's short-range AAM-equipped F-111s.
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And if fighters are present...well, ten SU-30MKK four on-station CAP plus Ready Flight plus two can carry up to 80 AAMs, severely attriting any attack launched from long range.
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Even with the upgrades, F-111s have no useable speed advantage (compared to supercruising F-35s) to reach targets and will be discovered/engaged long before an F-35 force...and possibly jumped by enemy fighters with long-range air-to-air missiles (LR AAMs) during target ingress or egress.
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It is also light-weight and can be carried on existing launch rails developed for the US Sidewinder-series AAMs and used in air forces not using Russian fighter aircraft.
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High-mounted, swept-back, and tapered with square tips (AAMs usually mounted).
AMX (AERITALIA, AERMACCHI, EMBRAER) United States Army 1993
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The other MiGs scattered across the sky, their contrails interpenetrating with the twisting white lines of Phoenix AAMs.
Carrie Douglass, Keith 1991
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Lightnings had two fuselage mounted AAMs not a couple on each wing .....
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Lightnings had two fuselage mounted AAMs not a couple on each wing .....
Army Rumour Service 2010
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