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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 ...
Raytheon (RTX) set to offer software development, software risk reduction, existing software support, software improvements and production integration planning for the AIM-9X missiles.
IFPC Inc 2-I launch of an AIM-9X Sidewinder Missile IFPC Longbow vs MQM-170 Outlaw 25 March 2016 Tamir Firing from IFPC Inc 2-I Multi Mission Launcher. The Multi-Mission Launcher (MML) is an open-systems architecture multi-role missile launching system created by the United States Army's Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center.
It is also called AIM-2000. [16] [17] The missile was developed in the late 1990s–early 2000s by a German-led program to produce a short to medium range infrared homing air-to-air missile to replace the AIM-9 Sidewinder in use by some NATO member countries at the time.
The AIM-9X is the latest model in the decades-old Sidewinder family of short-range missiles, and the AIM-120 AMRAAM (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile) is a beyond-visual-range missile ...
Raytheon (RTN) will acquire Captive Air Training missile guidance units, tail caps and containers as well as related spares Raytheon (RTN) Secures Navy Deal for AIM-9X Missile Program Skip to main ...
In February 2004, the US Army Aviation and Missile Command awarded Raytheon a contract to develop SL-AMRAAM. In 2007-2008, Raytheon successfully tested launching AMRAAM missiles from a six-missile launch rails on a M1097 Humvee. [1] They also added the capability to fire AIM-9X Sidewinder from the launcher. The missiles receive their initial ...
By the 1990s, however, only the UK was left to complete development of the weapon at a cost of £823 million, while the U.S. instead procured the indigenous, radically modernized AIM-9X Sidewinder ...