AIM-54

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So, it seems not really as a perfect weapon as advertised - good for
large and relatively slow targets like Bears and Badgers, or dumb and
not very manoeuvrable like cruise missiles (even if they are coming in
numbers), but not the best against fighters?

And you concluded all this from the fact that 2 missiles were fired from
very long range before the 25s were in the no-escape zone.. Or you just copy
and pasted it from somewhere?

Sounds to me like this mission was a success because they denied the enemy
to enter the defended airspace. If it was such an innefective weapon, the
Migs wouldn't run from it like crazy, they would just "outmanuever" it,
right?