AIM-7 Sparrow

Dilandu said:
You could fit a small IR seeker on her - presumably, some derivative of Stinger's one - much easier than on AMRAAM.
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Back in the 1960s and 1970s at China Lake NOTS experimented with something called the Sparrowinder (It's mentioned in Ron Westrum's book on the Sidewinder) where basically the seeker from an AIM-9D was mounted in the body of an AIM-7E.

Dilandu said:
They may even go as simple as adding a small, narrow-angle IR sensor to radar fairing
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It was called the AIM-7R.
 
timmymagic said:
The UK was looking to add Amraam to Nimrod MRA.4 as well...
Wonder what the weirdest installation woul have been for Sparrow, Sky Flash, Aspide or Amraam..?
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How about an F6F Hellcat with Sparrow...? I'm sure it would have been a surprise to Japanese pilots... :D

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Does anybody have drawings or even official ones regarding the Mark 29 Sea Sparrow launcher?
 

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