How The Super Hornet's New Preferred Air-To-Air Missile Loadout Works
Although the Boeing Super Hornets – both the F/A-18E single seat and F/A-18F dual seat – can carry ten AIM-120 Advanced ...
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AIM-9 Sidewinder
Warhead: Annular blast fragmentation (conventional) weighing 20.8 pounds (9.36 kg) The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a family of short-range air-to-air ... features. AIM-9X is the fifth generation ...
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U.S. Navy Officially Adopts ‘Murder Hornet’ Moniker for F/A-18E/F Equipped with Nine Air-to-Air Missiles
The ‘Murder Hornet’ features four AIM-9X Sidewinder IR-guided AAMs and five AIM-120 AMRAAM (Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile) radar-guided AAMs. The loadout is significant especially ...
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The AIM-120 AMRAAM Missile, Explained
Indeed, the latest version of the AIM-120 has a range of over 100 miles ... one of the main tools in air combat alongside the AIM-9X Sidewinder, which is a heat-seeking munition.
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'Murder Hornet': The Navy's got a new nickname for the missile-packed F/A-18 fighter jets it flew into the Red Sea fight
The AIM-9X is the latest model in the decades-old Sidewinder family of short-range missiles, and the AIM-120 AMRAAM (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile) is a beyond-visual-range missile ...
The Taipei Times16d
New missiles to be deployed in north
The Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) Taiwan ordered from the US would be installed in strategically ...
Taiwan News10d
New surface-to-air missiles to guard north Taiwan
The Ministry of National Defense on Friday said that Taiwan and the US had signed a NT$10.31 billion (US$312.9 million) ...