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The AIM-120 [a] Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) (/ æ m r æ m / AM-ram) is an American beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. It uses active transmit-receive radar guidance instead of semi-active receive-only radar guidance.
Battery of four SL-AMRAAM and two AIM-9X on HMMWV in 2007. The SLAMRAAM (Surface Launched AMRAAM) was the United States Army program to develop a Humvee -based surface-to-air missile launcher for the AIM-120 AMRAAM missile, manufactured by Raytheon Technologies and Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace .
AIM-7 Sparrow: United States: Medium-range air-to-air missile: In limited use AIM-9 Sidewinder: United States: Short-range air-to-air missile: AIM-120 AMRAAM: United States: Medium-range air-to-air missile: Derby: Israel: Medium-range air-to-air missile: Active radar homing missile Python 3: Israel: Short-range air-to-air missile: In limited ...
The AIM-120, the standard long-range missile for U.S. aircraft, has a maximum range of about 150 km (93 miles), which. requires the launching aircraft to fly deeper into contested territory ...
First successful test of AIM-120 AMRAAM at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico 1982. Early air-to-air missiles used semi-active radar homing guidance, that is the missile used the radiation produced by the launching aircraft to guide it to the target. The latest generation of BVR missiles use a combination of semi-active and active radar.
It’s often compared to the US’ AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile. A Russian Sukhoi Su-57 fifth-generation fighter aircraft flies during the airshow in Zhuhai, China on November ...
AIM-120 AMRAAM United States: Raytheon: Beyond visual range missile: AIM-120C-5 in use. [5] PL-15 China: China Airborne Missile Academy (CAMA) Beyond visual range missile: Arms the JF-17 Block-III and J-10C. [2] FAAZ Pakistan: GIDS: Beyond visual range missile: SD-10A China: Leihua Electronic Technology Research Institute Beyond visual range ...
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