How did a 30 year-old Su-22 defeat a modern AIM-9X?

Re:How did a 30 year-old Su-22 defeat a modern AIM-9X? by mcguire on Saturday June 24, 2017 @11:37AM (#14625915)

Out of curiosity, anyone know the overall expenses for an AIM-9X and AIM-120, vs. an SU-22?

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Re:How did a 30 year-old Su-22 defeat a modern AIM-9X? by vlehto on Monday June 26, 2017 @03:25AM (#14634753)

Wikipedia lists: AIM-120 400 000$ and AIM-9X 600 000$.

Which is very surprising, typically short range missiles are cheaper. Apparently AIM-9X has gone through recent face-lift that still affects prices.

Su-22 is harder to find, but comparable aircraft SEPECAT jaguar goes for about 8 million.

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Re:How did a 30 year-old Su-22 defeat a modern AIM-9X? by eggestad on Monday June 26, 2017 @05:01PM (#14640325)

Check wikipedia again

an AIM120C is 300-400k

an AIM120D is 1.7M (I think it was listed as 1.2M last I checked this page)

According to this http://www.f-16.net/f-16_armament_article1.html a sidewinder in 1999 had a unit cost of 55k-85k which would be 9L,M, or P most likely. 9X did enter service until 2003

These toys, much like the planes carrying them get progressively more expensive in newer version.

But the cost ratio stay much the same. You get 4-6 AIM-9 for the cost of one AIM 120

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