The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a family of short-range air-to-air missiles carried on a wide range of modern tactical aircraft in the U.S. military and uses in infrared seeker to home in on the heat ...

AIM-9 Sidewinder. Speed: 170 knots Range: 58 nm Propulsion: 2x GE T700-GE-401 turboshaft engines Crew: 2 Originating from a concept demonstrator delivered to the U.S. Army in 1962 based upon a ...

While the 1950s was a time of truly unusual and fast-paced innovation in military aerospace, one of the more bizarre projects ...

The US Army has awarded Dynetics an undefinitised ... capable of employing the AIM-9X Sidewinder and AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles. It is designed to defend fixed and semi-fixed sites from ...