S225X

[Mike Pryce]

Anyone have any info on the BAe S225X/XR Metoer predecessors from the early /mid 1990s. All I have found is :

http://www.skomer.u-net.com/projects/s225x.htm

and:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S225XR

Pics/data would be most welcome (aren't they always?)!

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

The S225X/XR programme was unveiled at the 1992 Farnborough Air Show

I'll check my Air Internationals, but post 1990 is boxed currently.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Small pic from Skomer website

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Drawing, from http://sistemadearmas.sites.uol.com.br/aam/meteor.html

This has FMRAAM and A3M pics & info too.

 

[Mike Pryce]

Thanks Paul!

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

S-225X

Length: 3.45m
Weight: 165kg
Range:100km

Stealth measures include the use of radar-absorbing paint coating, and infra-red attenuation.

The earlier winged RB73D/DL joint project used inertial guidance and either the Active Skyflash seeker or a new millimetric radar seeker from Marconi. Range was about 100km.

Source:

Zhang Yang "Rich, but better than blue- British Sky Flash air-to-air missiles" Ordnance Technology, 2004 No. 1 (Chinese)
Online at http://www.afwing.com/intro/skyflash/1.htm

Not found anything in Air International.

 

[TinWing]

S-225X

Length: 3.45m

I have always wondered why this proposal ended up being somewhat shorter than the original ~3.7 meter Skyflash/Sparrow?

The earlier winged RB73D/DL joint project used inertial guidance and either the Active Skyflash seeker or a new millimetric radar seeker from Marconi.

I wonder what the relationship was between the "new millimetric radar seeker from Marconi" and the seeker that found its way into AAAW/Brimstone?

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Because it was lighter? Seems to have been same diameter as Sparrow, but not as long.

 

[shkval]

Hello!
I'm looking for the photo and data on German A3M AAM,if you have please provide it here,thanks.
I also want to know that what is its present status?

 

[red admiral]

S225X and Skyflash currently on display in the Bristol Aero Collection's new site, which unfortunately isn't lit very well.