Missile lock on a SR-71? Like the time over Libya? Where the guys floored the bird and watched the missile fall harmlessly into the sea far behind?
Getting missile-lock on a SR-71 and hitting it are two different propositions.
Somewhere here likely I read that the standoff missile the F-35 is supposed to be armed with is too big and too heavy. So that leaves the handful of rounds in its main gun. Very useful; worth every penny, etc.
I don’t think it even can hold 200 rounds.
Yep. The story with the F-15 guys is that, for an exercise, they were provided with precise flight path and time for when an SR-71 would be flying by. One of the F-15s got a momentary fleeting missile lock (that really means nothing). Air Combat Command immediately put out a press release that an F-15 had successfully intercepted an SR-71. On the next scheduled flight for the exercise, the F-15 squadron asked for the SR-71’s flight path info. The SR-71 guys said, “There’s no need since you successfully intercepted us last time.” On the next flyover, no F-15 even came close to getting anything resembling a firing position.