• Dodge Sidewinder

AIM-9 Sidewinder (called horned rattlesnake, slangowo a thief, crook) – one of the most effective American-led missile air-to-air carried by fighter aircraft and helicopters. AIM-9 Sidewinder missile naprowadzanym is thermally and also alludes to his name, denoting a rattlesnake, which locates its prey on the basis that it is emitting heat. Sidewinder was the first effective solution… Zani missile air-to-air, repeatedly copied and modified, which addictive… ll remain in use and will be used ™ near future> you.

Sidewinder missile was developed in 1950, and the first missile test fired in 1951. First to hit the target air was recorded September 11, 1953 and in the same time was given its official name XAAM-N-7. The production of the first series of missiles marked as AAM-N-7 Sidewinder I started in 1955, introducing a batch of 240 missiles to arm the aircraft the U.S. Navy in the next year. Serial production of missiles marked as AAM-N-7 Sidewinder IA taken from General Electric and Philco. Aircraft of the United States consuming so far quite unreliable missiles AIM-4 Falcon then called GAR-2, a new Sidewidery ordered under the designation GAR-8. Including supplied USAF until the end of 1962 years there were 80,000 missiles of this type.

The first missile shoot down hostile machines AAM-N-7 Sidewinder IA recorded September 24, 1958, when Taiwan’s F-86 Sabre destroyed belonging to the Communist Chinese MiG-15.

Sidewinder missiles Sidewinder I and IA, had a head fragments weighing 4.5kg to the igniter contact or proximity, able to effectively strike target in a radius of 9 meters. The infrared sensor was 4 ° angle of observation, and the missile to maneuver with overload to 12G. The engine was a rocket engine solid fuel over 17.8 kN able to propel the projectile to a speed of 1.7 Ma. Due to the narrow viewing angle sensor, the Sidewinder could only be used to capture the aircraft from the tail at a distance of from 900 to 4800 meters, assuming that the target does not dodge. Due to lack of cooling infrared sensor, it was very vulnerable to other heat sources such as the sun or reflections from the ground.

Limitations of the projectile version AAM-N-7 Sidewinder IA led the U.S. Navy to construct its improved version: AAM-N-7 Sidewinder IC (SAHR) head semi-active radar-guided and AAM-N-7 Sidewinder IC (IR) infrared-guided (thermally). In both missiles uses a new engine Hercules MK 36 solid-fuel allows us to increase the speed and range to 18km. Also enlarged warhead and tail. Missiles guided radar were not too successful and actually used them only for a short time as a Military aircraft F-8 Crusader.

In 1963, he introduced a new naming missiles, as you indicated with Sidewinder missiles AIM-9 from the English Air Intercept Missile shortcut – air interceptor missile… months.

AIM-9B

AIM-9D

AIM-9E

AIM-9J

AIM-9M

AIM-9P

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