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A technical drawing of AIM-54C. The following is a list of AIM-54 Phoenix specifications: [28] Primary function: long-range, air-launched, air-intercept missile; Contractor: Hughes Aircraft Company and Raytheon Corporation; Unit cost: about $477,000, but this varied greatly; Power plant: solid propellant rocket motor built by Hercules Incorporated
The business was a combination of two Raytheon Company legacy businesses, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) and Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS), which operated a plant formerly owned by the Hughes Aircraft Company. [citation needed] Raytheon had been criticized for selling arms to Saudi Arabia that were used in the Yemen Civil War. These ...
The Raytheon Company was a major U.S. defense contractor and industrial ... system due to the high cost of development ... AIM-9 Sidewinder; AIM-54 Phoenix; AIM-120 ...
An AIM-7 variant called Sparrow II was the first attempt at producing a semi-active radar homing missile, however the first air-to-air missile to introduce a terminal active seeker operationally was the AIM-54 Phoenix [4] carried by the F-14 Tomcat, which entered service in 1972. This relieved the launch platform of the need to illuminate the ...
The APG-71 was a 1980s upgrade of the AWG-9 for use on the F-14D Tomcat.It incorporates technology and common modules developed for the APG-70 radar used in the F-15E Strike Eagle, providing significant improvements in (digital) processing speed, mode flexibility, clutter rejection, and detection range.
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Fatter – copy of U.S. AIM-9 Sidewinder [85] [240] Sedjil – copy of U.S. MIM-23 Hawk converted to be carried by aircraft [85] Fakour 90 – Iranian version of AIM-54 Phoenix, [241] it was successfully tested in February 2013. [242] Azarakhsh – carried by homegrown ‘Karrar’ drones [243] Zubin guided missile [244]
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