AIM-120 AMRAAM anti-air missile
Country of Origin: USA
The advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM) entered service in the early 1990s after being developed jointly by the U.S. Air Force and Navy to succeed the AIM-7 Sparrow III AAM. AMRAAM also was adopted by several other air forces through the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program and direct sales. AMRAAM is one of the U.S./European family of weapons first proposed in 1978. (Another is the AIM-132 advanced short-range air-to-air missile, or ASRAAM. See separate record.) A 1980...
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