Heatloss Twitter Page has an absolutely amazing speculative twitter thread on the future of long range air-to-air missiles....

 

HAVE DASH II, AARGM-ER, and the future of American long-range air-to-air missiles:
This is going to be an unusual thread for me, completely based on speculation and some basic knowledge about the direction of experimental programs and the goals of JATM.
AARGM-ER pictured. pic.twitter.com/TfMVzJhWhI

— Heatloss (@heatloss1986) April 3, 2024

What has me curious is if a high flying F-22 or its follow on would be able to take the same concepts shown here to launch modified AA missiles at ground targets...at range! High speed, low observable and if the Navy's surface to air missile is an example its could turn dual use.