During an exercise with the Estonian Air Force, two RLAF F-35s employed AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles to shoot down a ...
Some observers said the aircraft also seemed to be carrying a pair of AIM-9 short-range IR (infrared ... which has nothing to do with the entirely separate LINK-16. F-16s were shooting AIM-120s in ...
The service upheld the drill held on Mar. 4 off the coast of Rutja, saying that “for the pilots it was an excellent opportunity to practice shooting ... why the F-35s used the AIM-9X to destroy ...