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Aerojet Rocketdyne proposed in 2014 to "lobby the government to fund an all-new, U.S.-sourced rocket propulsion system." In June 2014, Aerojet initially projected it would cost under US$25 million per pair of engines, not including the up to US$1 billion estimated development cost to be funded by the government.
The MIM-72A/M48 Chaparral is an American-made self-propelled surface-to-air missile system based on the AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile system. The launcher is based on the M113 family of vehicles. It entered service with the United States Army in 1969 and was phased out between 1990 and 1998.
The system is capable of detecting Fighter aircraft, Cruise missile and Unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) from 150 kilometres (93 mi) away and is able to track them within a range of 120 kilometres (75 mi) and the Sayyad-3 missile, used by the SAM system, has a range of 200 kilometres (120 mi).The system can also detect stealth targets from ...
In November 2014, the State Department approved the sale of up to 2,000 APKWS rockets to Iraq. [51] In June 2015, a deal to sell 6 A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft to the Lebanese Air Force was approved that included the sale of 2,000 APKWS rockets for use on the turboprops. The US$462 million sale was financed by Saudi Arabia. [52] [53]
The MIM-104 Patriot is a mobile interceptor missile surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary such system used by the United States Army and several allied states. It is manufactured by the U.S. defense contractor Raytheon and derives its name from the radar component of the weapon system.
AR-1 (multiple rocket launcher) Aerojet Rocketdyne AR1, a rocket engine; Alba AR1, an experimental racing car; Archaerhodopsin-1, a photoreceptor; Arkansas's 1st congressional district; Arkansas Highway 1; ArmaLite AR-1, a bolt-action rifle manufactured by ArmaLite; IPCC First Assessment Report; USS Medusa (AR-1), a repair ship of the United ...
The Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) is a series of 610 mm surface-to-surface missile (SSM) with a range of up to 300 km (190 mi). [88] Each rocket pod contains one ATACMS missile. As of 2022, only the M48, M57, and M57E1 remain in the US military's arsenal. M39 (ATACMS BLOCK I) missile with inertial guidance. The missile carries 950 M74 ...
Drakon, used with the IT-1 missile tank that saw very little service. Taifun, a prototype missile that never saw production. 3M6 Shmel (AT-1 Snapper) 3M11 Falanga (AT-2 Swatter) 9M14 Malyutka (AT-3 Sagger) 9M111 Fagot (AT-4 Spigot) 9M112 Kobra (AT-8 Songster) – fired through smoothbore tank gun tubes of T-64 and T-72 tanks; 9M113 Konkurs (AT ...