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A Beyond Visual Range missile usually refers to an air-to-air missile that is capable of engaging at ranges beyond 20 nautical miles (37 km). This range has been achieved using dual pulse rocket motors or booster rocket motor and ramjet sustainer motor. A missile (CE pronunciation: ; AmE: ) is, in general, a projectile—that is, something thrown or otherwise propelled. ...
A US Navy VF-103 Jolly Rogers F-14 Tomcat fighter launchers an AIM-54 Phoenix long-range air-to-air missile. ...
A nautical mile is a unit of distance, or, as physical scientists like to call it, length. ...
A rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust from within a rocket engine. ...
Small ramjet engine A ramjet, sometimes referred to as a stovepipe jet, is a type of jet engine. ...
In addition to the range capability, the missile must also be capable of tracking its target at this range or of acquiring the target in flight. Systems in which a mid course correction is transmitted to the missile have been used.
Early air-to-air missile used passive radar guidance, that is the missile used the radiation produced by the launching aircraft to guide it to the target. Later missile tend to use a combination of passive and active radar. This long range radar antenna (approximately 40m (130ft) in diameter) rotates on a track to observe activities near the horizon. ...
The first such missiles used Semi-active radar homing (SARH). This is where the launching aircraft's radar is locked onto the target in a Single Target Tracking (STT) mode, directing a thin radar beam at the target and swivelling the beam to track any movement of the target. Missiles like the Raytheon AIM-7 Sparrow and Vympel R-27 (NATO designation AA-10 'Alamo') will then home in on the reflected radiation, much like a Laser-guided bomb homes in on the reflected laser radiation. Some of the longest range missiles in use today still use this technology. Semi-active radar homing, or SARH, is a common type of missile guidance system, perhaps the most common type for longer range air-to-air and ground-to-air missile systems. ...
Sarh (formerly Fort Archambault) is the largest city in southern Chad, the capital of Moyen-Chari prefecture. ...
Raytheon Company NYSE: RTN is a major United States military contractor based in Waltham, Massachusetts. ...
A RIM-7 Sea Sparrow being launched from the USS Essex (LHD-2) The AIM-7 Sparrow is a medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile operated by the USAF, US Navy, and USMC as well as various allied air forces. ...
The Vympel R-27 (NATO reporting name AA-10 Alamo) is a medium-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union. ...
The NATO flag NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), sometimes called North Atlantic Alliance, Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for defence collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, D.C., on April 4...
The Vympel R-27 (NATO reporting name AA-10 Alamo) is a medium-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union. ...
A laser-guided bomb (LGB) is a free-fall bomb, usually dropped from an aircraft, that is guided to its target by a laser designator The laser is directed at the target, illuminating it. ...
Newer fire-and-forget type missiles like the Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM and the Vympel R-77 (NATO designation AA-12 'Adder') instead use an Inertial navigation system (INS) combined with initial target information from the launching aircraft and updates from a one or two-way data link in order to approach the target from beyond visual range, and then switch to a terminal homing mode, typically active radar guidance. These types of missiles have the advantage of not requiring the launching aircraft to illuminate the target with radar energy for the entire flight of the missile, and in fact do not require a radar lock to launch at all, only target tracking information. This gives the target less warning that a missile has been launched and also allows the launching aircraft to turn away once the missile is in its terminal homing phase or engage other aircraft. The very longest range missiles like the Hughes (now Raytheon) AIM-54 Phoenix missile and Vympel R-33 (NATO designation AA-9 'Amos') use this technique also. Fire and forget is the military term for a type of missile which does not require further guidance after launch such as illumination of the target, and can hit its target without the launcher being in line of sight of the target. ...
Raytheon Company NYSE: RTN is a major United States military contractor based in Waltham, Massachusetts. ...
The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range, Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM (pronounced am-ram), commonly known to air crews as the Slammer, is a new generation air-to-air missile, developed as the result of an agreement between the United States and other NATO countries (see below). ...
The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range, Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM (pronounced am-ram), commonly known to air crews as the Slammer, is a new generation air-to-air missile, developed as the result of an agreement between the United States and other NATO countries (see below). ...
The Russian R-77RVV-AE Missile (NATO designation: AA-12 Adder) is a medium range, air-to-air, radar-guided missile system. ...
The NATO flag NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), sometimes called North Atlantic Alliance, Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for defence collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, D.C., on April 4...
The Russian R-77RVV-AE Missile (NATO designation: AA-12 Adder) is a medium range, air-to-air, radar-guided missile system. ...
An inertial navigation system measures the position and altitude of a vehicle by measuring the accelerations and rotations applied to the systems inertial frame. ...
The acronym INS can refer to: Immigration and Naturalization Service Indian Navy Ship Inelastic neutron scattering Inertial navigation system Insert Key of a keyboard Insurgency, a multi-player mod for Half-Life 2 International Network Services International News Service International Numbering System adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission Irish Naval...
Hughes logo adopted after his death Hughes developed the AIM-120 AMRAAM, one of the worlds most advanced air-to-air missiles Hughes Aircraft Company was a major defense/aerospace company founded by Howard Hughes. ...
Raytheon Company NYSE: RTN is a major United States military contractor based in Waltham, Massachusetts. ...
An AIM-54 Phoenix The AIM-54 Phoenix was a long-range air-to-air missile, carried in clusters of up to six missiles on the F-14 Tomcat, the only aircraft capable of carrying it. ...
The Vympel R-33 (NATO reporting name AA-9 Amos) was the most advanced long-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union. ...
The NATO flag NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), sometimes called North Atlantic Alliance, Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for defence collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, D.C., on April 4...
The Vympel R-33 (NATO reporting name AA-9 Amos) was the most advanced long-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union. ...
Some variants of the Vympel R-27 use Semi-active radar homing (SARH) for the initial guidance and then passive infra-red guidance for the final stage. This type of missile requires active guidance for a longer part of the flight than the fire-and-forget type of missiles but will still guide to the target even if radar lock is broken in the crucial final seconds of the engagement and may be harder to spoof with chaff due to the dual-type guidance. The Vympel R-27 (NATO reporting name AA-10 Alamo) is a medium-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union. ...
Semi-active radar homing, or SARH, is a common type of missile guidance system, perhaps the most common type for longer range air-to-air and ground-to-air missile systems. ...
Sarh (formerly Fort Archambault) is the largest city in southern Chad, the capital of Moyen-Chari prefecture. ...
Image of a small dog taken in mid-infrared (thermal) light (false color) Infrared (IR) radiation is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength longer than visible light, but shorter than microwave radiation. ...
Fire and forget is the military term for a type of missile which does not require further guidance after launch such as illumination of the target, and can hit its target without the launcher being in line of sight of the target. ...
A spoof is a humorous take on an established idea, cultural movement, television program, movie, play, or book. ...
Chaff is the seed casings and other inedible plant matter harvested with cereal grains such as wheat. ...
Despite many years of development, this class of weapon has never been tested in the environment they were designed for. Uses that have occurred have been against unequal advisaries.
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