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An [[air-to-air missile]] appropriate for tactical situations where it can be fired a target at med

...r guided missiles, usually surface-to-air missile| surface-to-air (SAM) or air-to-air missile| air-to-air (AAM). A SARH missile has a passive radar guidance receiver, an

...new missile, active radar seeker of the AIM-120 AMRAAM|AIM-120C-7 AMRAAM air-to-air missile has been added for terminal guidance. Because of that seeker, the ERAM acro

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The first full-production Soviet [[air-to-air missile]], the '''Vympel K-13''', NATO code name '''AA-2 ATOLL''', was reverse-engi

A Russian short-range air-to-air missile, the '''Vympel R-73''' (NATO AA-11 ARCHER), The missile has cooled infrare

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A new Russian long-range air-to-air missile, the '''Novator R-172''', was originally defined as an "AWACS-killer", or,

*Novator: [[guided missile]]s, especially [[air-to-air missile]]s

...mal signature of potential [[surface-to-air missile|surface-to-air]] and [[air-to-air missile]] threats to tactical aircraft, and is related to theater and strategic [[e

...nd [[air refueling|tanker aircraft]] are surrounded by escorts. Russian [[air-to-air missile]] designers have spent considerable effort in developing long-range radar a

...ich, in turn, derived from the AIM-7 Sparrow, an early beyond visual range air-to-air missile.

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A Russian medium- to long-range air-to-air missile, the '''Vympel R-27''' (NATO AA-10 ALAMO), comes in several versions:

With respect to [[air-to-air missile]]s, a '''beyond visual range (BVR)''' missile is one intended to be fired a

...e ground-launched SLAMRAAM derivative of the AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile. The SLAMRAAM uses a modified MIM-23 HAWK launcher, and the MPQ-64 can guid

...urces that an adversary can detect. It can be used to guide a heat-seeking air-to-air missile such as the AIM-9 Sidewinder or Vympel R-60 (missile)|Vympel R-60, or a cho ...the brilliant exhaust plume generated by the target, received at sensor 2. Air-to-air missile systems also use emitted radiation, but at much lower temperatures; the old

..., to which the active radar seeker of the AIM-120 AMRAAM|AIM-120C-7 AMRAAM air-to-air missile has been added for terminal guidance. Because of that seeker, the ERAM acro

*a wide range of [[air-to-air missile]]s including the [[Vympel R-27 (missile)|R-27 series]], [[Vympel R-60 (miss

...ands of pounds of Mark 8x series conventional bombs. An airliner hit by an air-to-air missile may crash, but it will not vaporize; 100 tons of metal, fuel and flesh are