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Javelin is a British man-portable surface-to-air missile, formerly used by the British Army and Canadian Army. It can be fired from the shoulder, or from a dedicated launcher named the Lightweight Multiple Launcher (LML), that carries three rounds, and can be vehicle mounted. The missile is an updated version of the earlier Blowpipe of the 1970s.
FGM-148 Javelin firing Missile components Javelin missile launch. The Javelin missile's tandem warhead is a high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) type. [11] This round utilizes an explosive shaped charge to create a stream of superplastically deformed metal, formed from trumpet-shaped metallic liners. The result is a narrow high velocity particle ...
Starburst is a British man-portable surface-to-air missile produced by Shorts Missile Systems of Belfast (since 2002 known as Thales Air Defence). It was used by the British Army (as Javelin S15), Malaysian Armed Forces, and in the Canadian Army as the Javelin until 2005. It can be fired from the shoulder or from a launcher known as Starburst ...
Blowpipe was replaced by the Javelin surface-to-air missile, which was of a generally similar design but with an improved performance and a semi-automatic guidance system – the operator now controls the missile by keeping the target in his sight, and the aiming unit steers the missile to remain centred in the sight. A computer in the missile ...
2 Air-to-surface missiles. 3 Surface-to-air. 4 Surface-to-surface missiles. 5 Antisubmarine warfare. ... FGM-148 Javelin: Infrared homing: Mach 0.32: BGM-71 TOW: Wire ...
Air defence systems. ... (National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System) for air defence, and Germany has offered the Iris-T. ... The US and UK supplied thousands of Javelin and Nlaw anti-tank ...
The 1978 Air Rhodesia Viscount shootdown is the first example of a civilian airliner shot down by a man-portable surface-to-air missile. The pilot of the aircraft managed to make a controlled crash landing. Air Rhodesia Flight 827 was also shot down in February 1979 by the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army with a Strela 2 missile. All 59 ...
Blowpipe (missile) [37] – Man portable surface-to-air missile from 1975 till 1985; Rapier (missile) [38] – Came into service at the start of 1970s and at the end replaced Bofors and thunderbird. Used until 2022. Javelin (surface-to-air missile) [39] – Man portable surface-to-air missile replacing Blowpipe in use from 1984 to 1993.