FMRAAM

FMRAAM
Type Medium-range, active radar homing air-to-air missile
Place of origin United States
Production history
Manufacturer Hughes/Raytheon
Specifications
Warhead High explosive blast-fragmentation

Engine Aérospatiale liquid fuelled RASCAL (RAmjet for Small CALibre) system
Guidance
system
inertial guidance, two way data link, active radar homing
Launch
platform

Aircraft:

The FMRAAM (Future Medium Range Air to Air Missile), was a modified ramjet powered version of the Hughes (now Raytheon) AIM-120 AMRAAM Beyond Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air missile that was conceived during the mid-1990s to fulfill British requirements for a new longer range missile to use in place of the AMRAAM on their new Eurofighter Typhoon fighter.[1] It competed with and lost to the Meteor (missile), thus never reaching production.[2]

References

  1. "Hughes pitches missile at FMRAAM project, Europe". Jane's Defense Weekly. Jane's Information Group. September 11, 1996. Retrieved 2013-02-11.
  2. http://typhoon.starstreak.net/common/AA/bvraam.html
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