air-to-air missile

Hi everybody Here the Convair "Sky Scorcher" Air-to-Air Missile with a 2 megaton warhead http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/other.html http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=44082 I have not found any other informations or drawings of this crazy project ! Maybe someone...

Hi folks, I recently came across Adrian Mann's (rather fine) "Illustration of a Vickers Type 432 firing an Artemis air-to-air missile", at: https://www.strata.com/showcase_detail.asp?id=2051&category=67 (I take it the target is an Me-264.) Does anyone know if the Vickers 432 was ever...

I am in search of something other than the usual poor quality generic drawings (see attached image) and partial images of this weapon that I have already found on-line through several google searches. Is there any thing else available on the AGM-69 SRAM and any proposed derivatives of this...

Thales Air Defence - the company that was formerly Shorts - is about to announce a new missile programme. Known as the Lightweight Multi-Role Missile, it is apparently intended to take the company beyond its traditional field of light SAM systems. Details will be officially released on 2 June.

is this the same missile as above probably not.

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http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-7.html Length: 130" Diameter: 14.8" Span: 44" Weight: 824.7lb Warhead: Fractional kiloton warhead (120lb) Guidance: Sparrow III seeker Range: 6miles @ sea level, 25 miles @ altitude Lockon range for radar: 20 miles Altitude: up to 80,000 ft Source...

Length: 148" Diameter: 8" Wingspan: 40.128" Tailspan:32" Weight: 420lb (warhead: 72lb inc fuse (49lb warhead), seeker 47kg) Seeker: Bendix AN/DPN-21 active radar seeker Range: 6nm Velocity: 3000ft/sec Altitude: 100-60000ft Source: C.M. Hanson: "Characteristics of Strategic, Tactical and...

In the early 1950s, the possibility of Soviet supersonic high altitude bombers resulted in a desire for a longer range, higher speed Sidewinder. This was called Diamondback and had a 12 inch diameter instead of the 5 inch diameter of Sidewinder. A demand thrust bipropellant liquid fuel...

An interesting paper that someone pointed out to me, describing (late 70s?) simulation & research into an AIM-9L follow-on (including the best unclassified description of AIM-9L performance I've found to date): https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.1979-91

I've gathered some information on an air-to-air missile that was built in Italy in the late 1950s or early 1960s under the C-7 designation. Reportedly it was tested on Italian air force's F-86 Sabres but was never adopted. Here is the only photo (or drawing) of the missile that is available on...

Vympel is currently working on AAMs to arm "fifth generation" fighters. Short Range AAMs Izdeliye 760 Highly modernised R-73/74 Izdeliye 300 / K-MD New highly manouverable dogfight/missile defence AAM to be superior to AIM-9X/ASRAAM Medium Range AAMs Izdeliye 170-1 Initial modernised...

Aviation Magazine No.545 September 1970 Attached pic from Farnborough 1970. Additional info: Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Rockets&Missiles. By Bill Gunston. Ed Salamander. ISBN 0-571-26870. Pg 221 The Vietnam War experience warn about the need for short range air to air weapons to...

Does anyone have an information of the Hughes Asam-1, an AMRAAM derivative that was offered for the UK's cancelled MSAM requirement. The Asam-1 featured an enlarged diameter solid rocket motor and reached the flight testing stage in 1992.

AIM-95 Agile started out in 1968 as a project of the Naval Weapons Centre, China Lake to explore new technologies for short range, manouvreable AAMs. The US Navy requirement asked for greater agility, shorter minimum range, and greater off-boresight capability. Under the "QuickTurn" program, in...