The AIM-4 Falcon, the USAF's primary missile, scored hits only 9% of the time it was fired, while the US Navy's AIM-9 Sidewinder fared only slightly better, depending on the model. This would be enough to outrange an F-35 with SDB-II, but it is unlikely to be enough to outrange one with SPEAR 3.

This is all marketing nonsense because what this aircraft is now expected to do in most if not all nations airforces is far more that it was ever designed to do due to shrinking budgets and serious cost overruns it’s not a coincidence that the US is now giving very serious consideration to restarting F22 production. Meanwhile, in 1980, SRAAM made another successful series of flight trials at Aberporth.

Think we need to be a we bit carefully with terms like stealth and very low observable. A year later, the Royal Australian Air Force shortlisted ASRAAM for its F-18’s. [citation needed] The ultimate winner was the Hughes submission using the same seeker but with the rocket motor, fuze and warhead of the AIM-9M. This resulted in mutual kills, obviously undesirable.[10]. In August 1980, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the UK, France, Germany and the USA. The thing is no one is really arguing that. With large stocks of AIM-9L’s, many thought the likelihood of the US buying ASRAAM low, and the fact that the US Navy was still pursuing improvements to Sidewinder (instead of waiting for ASRAAM) simply reinforced the doubts.

[13] In March 2009 the Royal Australian Air Force successfully carried out the first in-service "Lock on After Launch" firing of an ASRAAM at a target located behind the wing-line of the "shooter" aircraft. This design choice, along with its the aircraft´s performance, is basically the nub of APA´s problem with the f-35. The RAAF has demonstrated successful ‘over the shoulder’ firing in Lock On After Launch (LOAL) mode against target drones that were behind the wing-line of the launch aircraft. A variety of changes gave the L slightly better manoeuvrability, speed and range, but the main change was that the seeker had much higher tracking angles and allowed head-on engagements. ASRAAM can also be fired at very high speeds and G loading, locking on to the target before or after launch. So “stealth” planes are always detectable. How often do you think it would make a difference? During this year, it also emerged that the US would consider offering the latest version of Sidewinder to meet the new ASRAAM requirement if the UK recognised the MoU was effectively dead. If I understand correctly with the current ASRAAM the IR seeker goes active on launch and losses all contact with a/c.

This new variant will be operationally ready on the Eurofighter Typhoon in 2018 and on the UK's F-35Bs from 2022 onwards. Nearing the end of the development phase, HSD submitted a request for further support from the Government, instead, they were notified that the RAF and RN would be purchasing the AIM-9L Super Sidewinder from the USA. Plans for integration with Sea Harrier and Tornado ADV were also dropped. ASRAAM is in service with the Royal Air Force as its Within Visual Range (WVR) Dominance weapon. ” I don’t see that it’s going to be super-duper fast, because you can’t outrun missiles // It has to have an ability to carry a payload such that it can deploy a spectrum of weapons. Added to the fact that we no longer have to use the trapeze launch and it all sounds much less risky, and much more exportable for a jet that can be seen by nearly everyone’s radars now anyway. Whoever decided that is clearly an utter cockwomble. The original plan was for all UK threshold weapons (ASRAAM, AMRAAM and Paveway IV) to be qualified for internal carriage.

To make it less observable it will have to be enclosed in a pod or otherwise shielded, and there will have to be a ton of RCS analysis to determine how it will impact the overall signature (which is still pretty minimal even against even updated radars). ASRAAM.

By 2014, the RAF’s stock of ASRAAM missiles were approaching their mid-life upgrade point but because MBDA were already in production with the Common Anti-Air Modular Missile and the two share a very high degree of commonality, they were able to simply replace the RAF’s stock with new missiles manufactured at MBDA’s new facility in Bolton at a lower cost than refurbishing them. This allowed the project to be freed from competing needs and compromises of partners.

Subsequently, it will go into developmental testing in 2018 with operational tests starting in 2020. Parts of the missile have been used in the Common Anti-aircraft Modular Missile. At least Meteor will be internally carried, ToC, will see if I can find some links on Vympel but I think it was as simple as that. It is written by three Hellenic Air Force officers, but since they mostly quote APA, it seems that they quite rightly only used open source materials.
Integration of the CSP (Capability Sustainment Programme funded by £300 million Sept. 2015 contract) version of the ASRAAM on the UK’s F-35s will come under the Block 4 software upgrade that the aircraft will undergo”

The AIM-132 ASRAAM is a high speed, highly manoeuvrable, heat-seeking, air-to-air missile that equips UK Tornado, Typhoon and F-35 aircraft.

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