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If you drop the requirement of SAGG endgame guidance, and you are capable of creating an active guidance package (real one, not just marketing), than it is doable...
... just took the US over a decade to develop AMRAAM, and still nobody could reliably replicate it



Because I'm ignorant of the system, couldn't R-77 be used in much the same way as AMRAAM? The US bolted the AMRAAM's seeker onto SM-2 ER, so why couldn't the Russians attach an R-77 seeker onto 48N6 etc?

I have heard that R-77 has only been produced in small numbers, but doesn't it have similar performance to the AMRAAM?