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Parent topics

• Air warfare planning [r]: The set of doctrines and procedures for carrying out all types of air warfare, as an integrated whole [e]
• Guided missile [r]: A weapon that flies through air or space, under its own power, which adjusts its course to hit its target. [e]

Subtopics

• AIM-9 Sidewinder [r]: The first operational heat-seeking air-to-air missile, this weapon, with five generations of improvements, has been in service for over fifty years. [e]
• AIM-120 AMRAAM [r]: A high-performance. beyond-visual-range, air-to-air missile with inertial midcourse guidance and active radar terminal guidane, developed by the U.S. and used on the aircraft of a number of countries, as well as in surface-to-air missile variants [e]
• Novator R-172 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Matra-Bae Meteor [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Matra-Bae MICA [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Python 4 (missile) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Python 5 (missile) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Vympel R-27 (missile) [r]: Russian air-to-air missile in continued development, principally a medium- to long-range beyond-visual-range weapon [e]
• Vympel R-33 (missile) [r]: Now superceded long-range air-to-air Russian missile meant to hit high value targets. [e]
• Vympel R-37 (missile) [r]: A Russian long-range air-to-air missile, the successor to the Vympel R-33 (Western: AA-9 AMOS), succeeded by the Novator R-172 [e]

Other related topics

• Active radar homing [r]: In contrast to semi-active radar homing where the missile only has a radar receiver, a missile guidance mode where the missile has its own radar transmitter and receiver allowing it to act autonomously [e]
• Beam rider [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fire-and-forget [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Helmet sight [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lock after launch [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Off-boresight [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Radar cueing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Semi-active radar homing [r]: In contrast to active radar homing and command guidance, a missile guidance method in which the missile carries a radar receiver only, homing on the reflections, from the target, of a separate illuminating radar [e]