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The AIM-7F, which entered service in 1976, had a dual-stage rocket motor for longer range, solid-state electronics for greatly improved reliability, and a larger warhead. Even this version had room for improvement, leading British Aerospace and the Italian firm Alenia to develop advanced versions of Sparrow with better performance and improved ...
The Skyflash, or Sky Flash in marketing material, was a medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile derived from the US AIM-7 Sparrow missile and carried by Royal Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantoms and Tornado F3s, Italian Aeronautica Militare and Royal Saudi Air Force Tornados and Swedish Flygvapnet Saab Viggens.
The missile is the second AIM-7M that is fired (brevity code: "fox one") at 10 NMi range by the lead F-14. After the first Flogger is killed, two AIM-9 Sidewinders are fired (brevity code: "fox two"), the second one hits the other Flogger.
7M or 7-M can refer to: 7M-GE, a model of Toyota M engine; BT-7M, a model of BT-7 Soviet tank; Headquarters Detachment 7M, now named United States Marine Corps VMGR-252; VO-7M, now named United States Marine Corps VMA-131; AIM-7M Sparrow, alternate name for the AIM-7 Sparrow; 7M platform, alternate name for Volkswagen Group B-VX62 platform
Aspide (the Italian name for the asp) is an Italian medium range air-to-air and surface-to-air missile produced by Selenia (then by Alenia Aeronautica, now a part of Leonardo S.p.A.). It is provided with semi-active radar homing seeker.
2 AIM-7 First Flight. 1 comment. 3 Selenia Aspide. 1 comment. 4 Split Sea Sparrow. 4 comments. 5 Fox 1. 1 comment. 6 Non-Standard? 5 comments. 7 Chinese "copies" 2 ...
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The RIM-7 Sea Sparrow is a U.S. ship-borne short-range anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapon system, primarily intended for defense against anti-ship missiles.The system was developed in the early 1960s from the AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile as a lightweight "point-defense" weapon that could be retrofitted to existing ships as quickly as possible, often in place of existing gun-based anti ...