You are right and I regret posting this but my point was not to insult Indians to be honest. It was to say that the Indian trolls would support such simplistic measure of ramjet vs dual pulse because they want their Meteor to sound more terrifying. I should have said, one Indian member supports it because he wants Meteor to sound better and supports the inaccurate idea that ramjet missile always has greater NEZ than dual pulse which is hard to say.
Meteor is a good missile and definitely better than SD-10. Whether it is better than PL-12 is likely but better than PL-15 is difficult to say. They will each have their own advantages for flight performance but PL-15 uses more modern and advanced technology seekers until Meteor ones are upgraded to AESA.
I should remind that ramjet is old and very basic and simple technology. There is no "advanced ramjet" no such thing. There are more efficient ramjets maybe but that depends on cone design and aerodynamics of the intakes.
On aerodynamics and ramjet design, I do not believe for 1 second France can possibly be more ahead by any great distance. China has had ramjet technology for a long time and ramjet has not changed too much. Fuel type may have changed and materials but it is roughly a mach 3 engine at high end of speed. Kub missile is below mach 3 as max speed. The only thing we cannot be sure of is Meteor's true range. It could be much longer than PL-15 and that's why it could have greater NEZ. The sustained speed, average speed, and instanteous speed at certain critical moments all depends on many factors but none say ramjet has better NEZ. The greatest question on this is what each type of missile's fuel and total energy is in exact same launch and target parameters.
Ramjet is not hard technology anymore. Some good engineers, some good industrial experience, some good academic institutions and developers who have the experience and have access to funding and wind tunnels with supercomputers. I feel Chinese teams can build and test 1000 prototypes while French team can test 10. The industrial scale and cost is totally to wide. This also isn't a technology problem at all. Ramjet is one of the simplest engine types.
Why PLAAF and USAF do not currently use ramjet powered BVR air to air missiles and Chinese and American weapons developers do not develop them is NOT because of lack of technology or experience. I say this but maybe PLAAF has some ramjet powered very long range air to air missiles intended for anti-radiation or some purposes like that against large and slow targets. They must have determined whatever advantage of ramjet for PL-12 class missiles is simply not worth the extra cost and complexity.
