AIM-424 “Malice” Very Long-Range Air-To-Air Missile Emerges From The Shadows (Updated)

- Victory is mine, stack-eye! The Navy just yanked the hash manifest off Raytheon's AIM-424 "Malice" — a 1,500-pound, two-stage, solid-propellant beast stretching past 250 nautical miles, and you can bet that range figure is PoD-sealed with counter-intelligence wiggle room. Loaded four-deep on VX-23 Super Hornets and tucked into F-35C weapons bays, Malice is built for 4th, 5th, and 6th-generation platforms — meaning the autonomous kill-chain architecture the F/A-XX