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The Raytheon MIM-23 HAWK ("Homing All the Way Killer") [2] is an American medium-range surface-to-air missile. It was designed to be a much more mobile counterpart to the MIM-14 Nike Hercules , trading off range and altitude capability for a much smaller size and weight.
MIM-23 Hawk: Medium Range Surface-to-Air Missile: 200 battery: 1970s–present: In 1999, Iran locally upgraded their Hawk Missile systems to Improved Hawk Missiles and increased their range up to 24–30 km and flight altitude up to 14–16 km. Missile Specifications: Range = 24–30 km Altitude = 14–16 km Speed = Mach 2.4
MIM-3 Nike-Ajax; M6 linebacker launching Stinger missile. RIM-8 Talos; MIM-14 Nike-Hercules; CIM-10 BOMARC; MIM-23 Hawk; RIM-24 Tartar; FIM-43 Redeye; MIM-46 Mauler (project) LIM-49 Nike Zeus (project) RIM-50 Typhon LR (project) RIM-55 Typhon MR (project) RIM-7 Sea Sparrow; RIM-66 Standard Missile-1 and 2 MR; RIM-67 Standard Missile-2 ER; MIM ...
AN/TWQ-1 Avenger; Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System; FIM-43 Redeye; FIM-92 Stinger; MIM-3 Nike Ajax; MIM-14 Nike-Hercules; CIM-10 BOMARC; MIM-23 Hawk; MIM-72 Chaparral – This is a ground-launched version of the AIM-9 Sidewinder AAM
The Marine Corps retained both flak weapons and SAMs throughout the 1950s until the fielding of the MIM-23 Hawk Missile System in 1960. The HAWK Missile was employed by Light Antiaircraft Missile (LAAM) battalions and remained a mainstay of Marine Corps ground based air defense for the next four decades.
5th Light Antiaircraft Missile Battalion (5th LAAM Bn) was a United States Marine Corps air defense unit equipped with the medium range surface-to-air MIM-23 HAWK Missile System. 5th LAAM was commissioned at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona during the Vietnam War to augment training on the West Coast after 2d LAAM Battalion deployed to Vietnam.
The modernised gunship is also fitted with the updated PrVK-24-2 targeting system, which allows the use of 9M127-1 Ataka-VM anti-tank guided missiles and either L370 Vitebsk electronic countermeasure system or its export version President-S. [17] The helicopter has also received a chin-mounted NPPU-23 turret with a twin-barrel GSh-23L autocannon.
Although most sources reported that the Fakour-90 is a copy of the AIM-54, some analysts suggested that the Fakour-90 was actually an air-launched version of the MIM-23 Hawk missile with control surfaces from the AIM-54. [14]