1. Military Aircraft Systems

2. Air-to-Air Missiles Objective: To know the different types of Air-to-Air Missiles in service with the Royal Air Force.

3. Air-to-Air Missiles Contents: ASRAAM AMRAAM Meteor AIM-9L Sidewinder Skyflash

4. AIM-132 ASRAAM

5. Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile Typhoon FGR4 Tornado GR4 Tornado F3 (Retired 2011)

6. AIM-132 ASRAAM ASRAAM is a highly manoeuvrable, Infra-Red (IR) guided, air-to-air missile able to counter sophisticated IR countermeasures. The missile is the world’s first IR missile to use a sapphire-domed staring array detector, which detects the whole target aircraft. The missile has a fire-and-forget capability, thus the pilot can engage multiple targets with several missiles simultaneously. Following release, the missile accelerates to speeds in excess of Mach 3 whilst being guided to the target using its IR seeker.

7. AIM-132 ASRAAM Dimensions: Length: 2.9m Diameter: 0.17m Weight: 87kg Performance: Range: 8nmls+ Speed: Mach 3+ Sensor: IR staring array with inertial guidance

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