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The AIM-9 Sidewinder ("AIM" for "Air Interception Missile") [3] is a short-range air-to-air missile. Entering service with the United States Navy in 1956 and the Air Force in 1964, the AIM-9 is one of the oldest, cheapest, and most successful air-to-air missiles. [4] Its latest variants remain standard equipment in most Western-aligned air ...
Mach 3.2 AIM-9 Sidewinder United States: 1956– 86 kg 9.4 kg Annular blast fragmentation: 18 km Mach 2.5 Raytheon AIM-120D AMRAAM United States: 2008 152 kg 18 kg Blast/fragmentation >160 km Mach 4 Raytheon AIM-120C AMRAAM United States: 1996 152 kg 18 kg Blast/fragmentation >105 km Mach 4 Raytheon AIM-120B AMRAAM United States: 1994–
Mach 4: AIM-9 Sidewinder: Infrared homing: Unverified (≈Mach 2.7) AIM-120 AMRAAM: Active radar homing: Mach 4: Air-to-surface missiles. Missile Guidance Speed
Missiles: AIM-9 Sidewinder Air-to-air missile or AGM-65 Maverick Air-to-surface missile; Bombs: Paveway series of Laser-guided bombs (LGB); or Mark 80 series unguided bombs (including 3 kg and 14 kg practice bombs) Other: up to 3× 370 US gallons (1,400 L; 310 imp gal) external drop tanks (only pylon stations 2, 3, 4 are wet-plumbed) Avionics
The AIM-9 Sidewinder ("AIM" for "Air Interception Missile") [3] is a short-range air-to-air missile. Entering service with the United States Navy in 1956 and the Air Force in 1964, the AIM-9 is one of the oldest, cheapest, and most successful air-to-air missiles.
On Tuesday, Alliant TechSystems announced that it has won a $17 million U.S. Air Force contract to supply rocket motors for AIM-9P Sidewinder customers under the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program.
The McDonnell Douglas A-4G Skyhawk is a variant of the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk attack aircraft developed for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The model was based on the A-4F variant of the Skyhawk, and was fitted with slightly different avionics as well as the capacity to operate AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles. The RAN received ten A-4Gs in ...
The AIM-9M isn't mentioned otherwise in the article, aiui it's a further improvement of the AIM-9L and replaced it in US service, with several sub-variants up to at least AIM-9L-8 / AIM-9L-9. Ideally there would be an explanation of the AIM-9L and AIM-9M relationship, which models are for export, and the AIM-9X in the table instead of the AIM-9R.