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Missile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Missiles which spend most of their trajectory in unpowered flight, and which don't use aerodynamics to alter their course, are known as ballistic missiles (because their motion is largely governed by the laws of ballistics). Modern ICBMs, the largest missiles currently deployed, represent the most destructive weapons ever made in human history. Missiles can range from a rock thrown from a slingshot, through a crossbow or ballista bolt, to a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with multiple nuclear warheads. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Missile   (576 words)

AGM-114 Hellfire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia AGM-114 Hellfire (Helicopter launched fire-and-forget) is a U.S. air-to-ground missile system designed to defeat tanks and other individual targets while minimizing the exposure of the launch vehicle to enemy fire. Despite the expanded acronym, most versions of the Hellfire missile are not truly "fire-and-forget"—all the laser-guided versions require constant illumination or "painting" of the target from launch to impact. It is used on helicopters against heavily armored vehicles at longer standoff distances than any other U.S. Army missiles now in the inventory. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire   (603 words)

Missile operable by either air or ground launching - Patent 5430449 In this simulation, when the missile is launched from the ground but uses the guidance approach that is conventional for an air-launched missile, the gimbal soon encounters hardware limits after launch, and failure results. The principal relevant difference in the operation of the air-launched missile and the ground-launched missile is that the ground launched missile starts from zero velocity rather than a relatively high velocity, typically about Mach 0.9, characteristic of the air-launched missile. The missile flight controller includes means for receiving a target location vector from an external targeting aid, means for setting a launch status indicator of the missile as to whether the missile is launched from a fixed location or from a moving vehicle, and means for controlling the guidance of the missile after launching. www.freepatentsonline.com /5430449.html   (4291 words)

Air-to-surface missile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An air-to-surface missile (also, air-to-ground missile, ASM or AGM) is a missile designed to be launched from military aircraft (bombers, attack aircraft, fighter aircraft or other kinds) and strike ground targets on land, at sea, or both. One of the major advantages of air-to-surface missiles over other weapons available for aircraft to use to attack ground targets is the standoff distance they provide. Most air-to-surface missiles are fire-and-forget in order to take most advantage of the standoff distance - they allow the launching platform to turn away after launch. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Air-to-surface_missile   (469 words)

Air-to-air missile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia There are missiles in development, such as the MBDA Meteor, that "breathe" air (using a ramjet, similar to a jet engine) in order to extend their range. Note that although the missile may use radar or infra-red guidance to home on the target, this does not necessarily mean that the same means is used by the launching aircraft to detect and track the target before launch. An aircraft can defend against infra-red missiles by dropping flares that are hotter than the aircraft, so the missile homes in on the brighter, hotter target. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Air-to-air_missile   (1387 words)

Air-to-air (from rocket and missile system) --  Encyclopædia Britannica Air conditioning is the use of mechanical systems to achieve that control in such places as homes, offices, theaters, institutions, factories, airplanes, and automobiles. Air warfare may be conducted against other aircraft, against targets on the ground, and against targets on the water or beneath it. Air warfare is almost entirely a creation of the 20th century, in which it has become a primary branch of military operations. www.britannica.com /eb/article-57329   (845 words)

Encyclopedia: Surface to air missile A surface-to-air missile (SAM) is a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft. RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile - United States (this missile is a derivative of the AIM-9 Sidewinder and the FIM-92 Stinger). The Stinger missile, a full-dimensional protection weapon, is the Army's system for short-range air defense that provides the ground maneuver commander force protection against low-altitude airborne targets such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, and cruise missiles. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Surface_to_air-missile   (383 words)

Javelin surface-to-air missile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Javelin is a British man-portable surface-to-air missile, used by the British Army and Canadian Army. The missile was developed as a replacement for the Blowpipe missile, which had proven largely ineffective in the Falklands war (9 hits recorded out of more than 100 missile launches) and in Mujahideen hands during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Although Javelin is somewhat susceptible to smoke, fog or clouds, it is claimed to be virtually impossible to decoy it away from a target with flares. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Javelin_surface-to-air_missile   (221 words)

AGM-69 Short Range Attack Missile - SRAM - Aircraft Launched Missiles - Strategic Air Command - Nuclear Warhead Originally, the SRAM's primary mission was to improve the survivability of the SAC manned bomber force through the "neutralization of surface-to-air missile defenses." The mission was later expanded to encompass a secondary objective, the destruction of selected strategic targets. The first motor stage propelled the missile to Mach 3 after launch, and the second stage was ignited near the target for a powered terminal approach. In March 1964, SOR (Specific Operational Requirement) 212 for a short-range attack missile was submitted by the USAF, and in March 1965, development was approved by the Department of Defense. www.strategic-air-command.com /missiles/Aircraft-Launched_Missiles/agm-69_SRAM_missile.htm   (825 words)

MILNET: Air to Ground Missiles (AGMs) Like air-to-air missiles (AAMs), the air-to-ground missile can be guided by IR (InfraRed homing) or Semi-Active Radar Homing (SARH) methods. AGMs are used in various air to surface roles, such as anti-tank attacks, attacks against ground force personnel, runways, or equipment. Classed with the AGMs are the Durandel, which is a high velocity, high exposive, and high penetration missile designed to penetrate the concrete of a runway, and blast away said concrete as well as obliterate the underfooting as well. www.milnet.com /agm.htm   (458 words)

AGM-65G Maverick Missile Upon firing the picture seen by the Maverick is comitted to memory inside the computer of the Maverick and as the missile flies towards the target, it keeps comparing the picture in memory with what it sees at the time. With laser, someone on the ground or an aircraft would aim and keep a laser beam on the target which the Maverick would guide itself on the reflected laser energy. The casing of the blast/fragmentation warhead was made especially strong to withstand the impact of the target enabling it to penetrate it. www.geocities.com /aws_572/Weapons/agm-65g.html   (259 words)

NDM Article - Pentagon Review Approaching For Army-Navy Air-to-Ground Missile Even though the Air Force chose to not participate in the program, industry sources speculate that the joint common missile may one day be launched from Air Force unmanned aircraft that currently are armed with Hellfires, such as the Predator. NDM Article - Pentagon Review Approaching For Army-Navy Air-to-Ground Missile The Maverick is a heat-seeking missile that uses infrared and TV sensors to locate the target. www.nationaldefensemagazine.org /issues/2004/May/Pentagon_Review.htm   (743 words)

Encyclopedia: Air-to-ground missile Air-to-ground missiles are missiles launced by military aircraft against targets on the ground. Shorter-range missiles such as the AGM-65 Maverick, AGM_114 Hellfire and Brimstone missiles are typically rocket-powered, while longer-range missiles such as the RAF Storm Shadow use jet engines for propulsion. Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com). www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Air_to_ground-missile   (122 words)

China Test Fires New, Deadly Air-To-Air Missile The recent AA-12 missile deployment is not expected to be contained in the Pentagon's long-delayed annual report on the military balance across the Taiwan Strait, defense officials said. As a result, Taiwan was forced to store the missiles at U.S. bases. The U.S. government sold 200 AIM-120 missiles to Taipei in September 2000, but prohibited the actual transfer of the missiles to Taiwan because of a U.S. policy. www.rense.com /general26/chintest.htm   (890 words)

Rafael's Python 4 Air to Air Missiles RAFAEL's Python 4 is the world’s most advanced short-range Air-To-Air missile. The 4th generation infrared (IR) missile, developed by RAFAEL is fully operational with the Israeli Air Force. The missile has a large "no-escape" zone, extending to most of the pilot’s frontal hemisphere, thus allowing the pilot to destroy any target within this zone, regardless of the target’s flight path or evasive measures. www.rafael.co.il /web/rafnew/products/air-python-4.htm   (167 words)

Meteor - Beyond Visual Range Air to Air Missile (BVRAAM) Sky Flash is a semi-active missile and requires the launch aircraft to illuminate the target throughout the time of flight of the missile, which makes it vulnerable to counter attack. Meteor is a new concept in air to air weapons, employing advanced air breathing motor technology and state of the art electronics to provide optimum performance against increasingly complex threats. Meteor is a new concept in air to air weapons, employing advanced air breathing motor technology and the latest electronics to deliver optimum combat performance. www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/bvraam.htm   (1633 words)

USATODAY.com - Report: India test-fires air-to-air missile India has said it has a fixed schedule of missile tests for its growing weaponry and routinely denies they are connected to other events, although often India and Pakistan conduct weapons tests a day apart. The missile tested on Friday has a striking range of 15 to 25 miles, the news agency reported. It said the missile was fired from Chandipur, in the east coast state of Orissa. www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-05-09-india-missile-test_x.htm   (329 words)

AIM-7 Sparrow The AIM-7 Sparrow is a radar-guided, air-to-air missile with a high-explosive warhead. It is a widely deployed missile used by U.S. and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) forces. Missile stability is provided by four fixed delta fins which are located in line with the forward wings. www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/munitions/aim-7.htm   (2213 words)

Chinese Defence Today :: R-27 (AA-10) Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile Basically the R-27 is still a first-generation medium-range air-to-air missile with semi-active radar guidance. The missile doesn't posses a fully "fire-and-forget" capability and thus not as attractive from an aircraft survivability perspective as the second-generation active-radar guided missile like AIM-120 or R-77 (AA-12). The R-27 MRAAM was designed according to a modular principle and was the base for a family of missiles equipped with various types of homing heads and propulsion systems. www.sinodefence.com /missile/airlaunched/r27.asp   (556 words)

Hughes AIM-4 "Falcon" Air-to-Air Missile The missile homed in on the infrared signature of the hot engine exhaust of the target aircraft and thus was a "fire and forget" weapon, meaning it did not require continuous guidance from the launching aircraft as did the GAR-1. The GAR-1 (known as the AIM-4 after 1962, for "Air Interception Missile") was a semi-active radar homing missile, meaning that it tracked and homed in on the reflection of a target being illuminated by the radar transmitter in the aircraft that launched it. The missile itself did not contain a radar transmitter, but rather receiving antennas which gave navigation and steering signals to the elevons on the rear of the four delta-shaped wings. www.hill.af.mil /museum/photos/coldwar/falcon.htm   (1041 words)

Israel Unveils World's Best Air-To-Air Missile The missile is already in use by the Israeli air force, and has been now offered to a number of foreign air forces. Rafael, Israel's Armament Development Authority, this week unveiled its Python 5, the most advanced short-range air-to-air missile in the world. The missile was exhibited at the Paris Air Show 2003 that opened last Sunday, alongside other attractions at the Israeli booth. www.rense.com /general46/missle.html   (242 words)

AIM-120 AMRAAM Air-to-Air Missile Prior to launch, signal and data transfer between missile and aircraft is accomplished through a buffer connector that is in-line between the launcher cable and the missile umbilical connector. The AIM-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM) is a new generation air-to-air missile. AMRAAM is compatible with the Air Force F-15, F-16 and developmental F-22; Navy F-14 D/D (R) and F/A-18 C/D; German F-4 and the British Sea Harrier aircraft. www.fortunecity.com /tatooine/leguin/643/web_tree/Weapons/html/AIM-120_inf.html   (2724 words)

Ruhrstahl X-4 Air-to-Air missile Luft '46 entry This missile was intended to be issued in numbers to the Luftwaffe by the early Spring of 1945, but the bombing of the BMW rocket engine factory, and the war's end prevented the combat use of the world's first guided air-to-air missile. A warhead weighing 20 kg (44.1 lbs) with a destructive blast radius of 7.6 meters (25 feet) was mounted in the nose of the missile, being detonated by the pilot, impact or by an acoustical proximity fuse, tuned to the pitch of the bomber's propellers. The design of the missile was set up so that unskilled labor could assemble the missiles, indeed, the sheet metal sections assembled by tabs in one section being pushed into slots of another section. www.luft46.com /missile/x-4.html   (883 words)

AIM-54 Phoenix Missile The AIM-54 Phoenix Missile was developed in the 1970s as the principle long-range, air-to-air, defense armament of the F-14 Aircraft. The AIM-54 is a radar-guided, air-to-air, long-range missile consisting of a guidance, armament, propulsion, and control section, interconnecting cables, wings and fins. The AIM-54 Phoenix Missile, used exclusively on the F-14A/B/D Aircraft, is a radar guided, air-to-air missile consisting of a guidance section, armament section, propulsion section, control section, interconnecting surface cables, wings, and fins. www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/munitions/aim-54.htm   (1031 words)

Navy Matters Type 45 Section Even though the crucial role of air defence was shared by all, and the ships were to share the same missile, the Franco-Italian Aster, the navies had somewhat different missions in mind. While this caused no essential clash, the missile being capable of both missions, the radar needed to perform the area defence role (as required by the Royal Navy) would have to be of a markedly different nature to that required by the point defence role (France and Italy). The Astor 15 missile had just been successfully tested in a 'hit-to-kill' engagement with a live MM38 Exocet anti-ship missile, demonstrating that it could carry out the local-area defence mission, against a crossing target, as required by the Royal Navy. navy-matters.beedall.com /cngf.htm   (10464 words)

Blowpipe missile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Blowpipe is a man-portable surface-to-air missile which was in use with the British Army and Royal Marines from 1968. The official British report stated that of the 95 missiles fired, only 9 managed to destroy their targets and all of these where slow flying planes and helicopters [1], however later research indicated that only 1 kill could be attributed to the Blowpipe. Blowpipe missile systems are still being found in weapon caches as recently as June 2003 in Afghanistan [4] [5]. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blowpipe_missile   (313 words)

18 Air Defence Regiment To meet this role, 18th Air Defence Regiment, RCA employs the Javelin Missile System. From that point forward the role of the unit changed to Air Defence and the Regiment was tasked to provide an air defence battery, the 20th, in support of Canadian Forces units in Western Canada. The role of air defence artillery is to defend our ground forces against attack from enemy aircraft and helicopters. www.army.dnd.ca /18AIR_DEF_REGT/history/history.htm   (161 words)

Anti-aircraft warfare - Art History Online Reference and Guide Air defence by air forces is typically taken care of by fighter jets carrying air-to-air missiles which is beyond the scope of this article, however most air forces choose to augment air base defence with surface-to-air missile systems as they are such valuable targets for enemy aircraft. Originally missiles were useful only as a replacement for the very largest of anti-aircraft guns, but by the 1960s they had been scaled down to the point where they were also replacing smaller weapons previously serviced by guns in the 40 mm to 57 mm range. Starting in the post-World War II era the guns were joined by the guided missile, specifically the "surface-to-air missile", and today both are used in combination in most roles. www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Flak   (3367 words)

Mock HAVE LITE Air-to-Ground Missile Completes First Safe Separation The mock missile separated cleanly from the aircraft and its release was found to impart no undo strains to the launch platform. The HAVE LITE missile co-marketed by Lockheed Martin and Rafael Industries has achieved the first successful safe separation during a test at the U.S. Air Force's Eglin AFB in Florida. The missile is a lighter version of the AGM-142 HAVE NAP, and is intended to expand the missile to the F-16 market and other smaller tactical fighters. www.aviationnow.com /shownews/00farn3/intell20.htm   (167 words)

Boeing AGM-86B (ALCM) Air-Launched Cruise Missile The AGM-86B is an unmanned air-to-ground nuclear missile designed to be launched from aircraft such as the B-52 or B-1. The missile is programmed to fly to a preselected target by inertial guidance and by comparison techniques through which prerecorded geographical features are matched with the terrain "seen" by the missile's sensors. Further hampering enemy defenses are the missile's small size and low-altitude flight profile which make it hard to detect on radar. www.wpafb.af.mil /museum/modern_flight/mf53a.htm   (205 words)

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