Fuchs, I strongly disagree...
The death of Basic Fighter Maneuvers (BFM) is often greatly exaggerated...
No missile is perfect. OBTW the jammers you refer to exist... see my last post for details on what the threat has. These can affect missiles...
Until missiles become hittiles and have 100% Pk (never going to happen in my opinion) there is always the possibility of having to close with the enemy, maneuver to a position of advantage, and kill him with WVR weapons - BFM.
OBTW, to use your BVR missiles you have to be able to ID the threat- again this is not a perfect science, and if it fails you may have to visually ID (VID) the threat. Getting a VID requires the same maneuverability mentioned above.
At some point we may get to where a computer can match the human system in terms of air-to-air situational awareness... but we're not there yet.
We learned this lesson in Vietnam, hopefully we don't need to re-learn it anytime soon.
V/R,
Cliff
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