World Record Distance For A Successful Air-To-Air Missile Shot Was Made Last Month By An F-15

AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles waiting to be loaded onto a F-15C Eagle, Kadena Air Base, August 2016. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Peter Reft  

Popular Mechanics: An F-15 Just Made the World’s Longest Missile Shot  

The Eagle fired an AIM-120 AMRAAM at a target drone. 

* The U.S. Air Force recently claimed the world’s farthest missile shootdown. 

* The incident involved an F-15 Eagle shooting down a target drone. 

* The Eagle fired an AIM-120 AMRAAM missile, and newer versions of the F-15 can carry a dozen or more into combat. 

The U.S. Air Force has claimed the world’s longest air-to-air missile shot: an F-15 Eagle fighter taking down a BQM-167 target drone. 

However, the Air Force didn’t disclose the actual distance of the shot, so we can’t verify the world record claim for accuracy. 

In March, an F-15C Eagle based at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida launched an AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) at a subscale BQM-167 target drone over the Eglin Test and Training Range, according to an official Air Force statement. 

The missile shot was a joint exercise involving the 28th Test and Evaluation Squadron and the 83d Fighter Weapons Squadron.  

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WNU Editor: Details of this air-to-air missile shot are classified. But it has to be 100 miles (give or take) since the range of the AIM-120 AMRAAM is about 100 miles (Wikipedia).