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BVR, whose acronym stands for Beyond Visual Range, has one of the Israeli software industry's keenest eyes for extracting civilian uses from military technology.
Moreover, this highly problematic "beyond visual range" air engagement has vulnerabilities that our Air Force mostly believes it can ignore as a real threat in training exercises.
If the latest iteration of "beyond visual range" turns out to be yet another chimera, the F-35 will have to operate as a close-in dogfighter, but in that regime it is a disaster.
Having failed to develop in the 1950s, the 1960s, and the 1970s an effective (and reliable) radar-based technology to shoot down enemy (not friendly) aircraft "beyond visual range," the Air Force is trying yet again with the F-35, like the F-22 before it.
There they were, the presidential dishes, but well beyond visual range.
At the same time, advanced electronics removed the task of early warning from the pilot's eye, and guided missiles extended the range of aerial combat, at least in theory, to beyond visual range.
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Taking traditional photography, high-speed and time-lapse photography, and active IR/sonic imaging as examples, students will spend a week exploring how these technologies have extended human memory, opened the time domain, and illuminated the world at beyond-visual-range.
By April 1994, five prototypes and two series-production Gripens had been completed; the only major decision remaining was to select a beyond-visual-range missile (BVR).
The F-20 also offer the ability to fire the beyond-visual-range AIM-7 Sparrow missile, a capability that the F-16 lacked at that time, and did not gain until the Block 15 ADF version in February 1989.
Compared with the F-5E, the F-20 was much faster, gained beyond-visual-range air-to-air capability, and had a full suite of air-to-ground modes capable of firing most U.S. weapons.
The main bay can accommodate six LAU-142/A launchers for beyond-visual-range missiles and each side bay has an LAU-141/A launcher for short-range missiles.
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