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Military Aircraft Systems
Air-to-Air Missiles Objective: To know the different types of Air-to-Air Missiles in service with the Royal Air Force.
Air-to-Air Missiles Contents: • ASRAAM • AMRAAM • Meteor • AIM-9L Sidewinder • Skyflash
AIM-132 ASRAAM
AIM-132 ASRAAM Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile • Typhoon FGR4 • Tornado GR4 • Tornado F3 (Retired 2011)
AIM-132 ASRAAM • ASRAAM is a highly manoeuvrable, Infra-Red (IR) guided, air-to-air missile able to counter sophisticated IR countermeasures. • The missile is the world’s first IR missile to use a sapphire-domed staring array detector, which detects the whole target aircraft. • The missile has a fire-and-forget capability, thus the pilot can engage multiple targets with several missiles simultaneously. • Following release, the missile accelerates to speeds in excess of Mach 3 whilst being guided to the target using its IR seeker.
Dimensions:
Length: 2.9m
Diameter: 0.17m
Weight: 87kg AIM-132 ASRAAM
Performance:
Range: 8nmls+ Speed: Mach 3+ Sensor: IR staring array with inertial guidance
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