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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.
BVR missiles had a kill rate of 34%. By contrast, WVR missiles had a kill rate of 67%, despite costing less than half of a BVR missile. [5] 1994 Banja Luka incident: 3: 1: 0 [5] 1999 January 5 incident over Iraq: 0: 0: 6 BVR missiles were fired (AIM 120, AIM-54, AIM-7), but all missed. [5]
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 .
An AIM-120 dummy missile on a rail extending from the NASAMS canister In 1999 R-73 missile were adapted by Serb forces for surface to air missiles. The Houthi movement Missile Research and Development Centre and the Missile Force have tried to fire R-27/R-60/R-73/R-77 against Saudi aircraft.
An AIM-120 dummy missile on a rail extending from the canister The system integrates U.S.-built TPQ-36A air defense X band 3D radar and AMRAAM missiles with a Norwegian developed battle management C4I (command, control, communication, computers and intelligence) system called FDC, short for Fire Distribution Center.
One has an upgraded motor to extend a range at high altitudes to as much as 120–160 km; it is known as the RVV-AE-PD (Povyshenoy Dalnosti—improved range). This variant has been test-fired and uses a solid-fuel ramjet engine. Its range puts it in the long-range class and is equivalent in range to the AIM-54 Phoenix.
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The Sea Harrier FA2 carried the AIM-120 AMRAAM missile, the first UK aircraft with this capability. [28] An upgraded model of the Pegasus engine, the Pegasus Mk 106, was used in the Sea Harrier FA2. In response to the threat of radar-based anti-aircraft weapons electronic countermeasures were added. [25]