continuous rod warhead

they dont even look similar.  the fin styles have gone through several evolutionary changes, as well as positioning of components.

cool. Need to make mini versions that lock onto people. A bomb opens up and a thousand little bastards the size of a pencil head for anything with body heat...... not sure where they came from

cool toy

This is news?  

If there is enough of a heat signature, you can lock on.  Been that way for years.

Now they need to find a way to attach 40 of em on there.  High Capacity Aircraft.

Look up the B-1R.  

Hmm, bitterness. I know it well.

There is no such thing as overkill!
There is only "Open Fire!" and "I'm reloading!"

The name is that old, but in reality the missile is different.

AIM-9's are the shit, I've handled many of them in my day.



 

So, the Reapers in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" COULD have used SIdewinders against GORT?!?!?

Cigar boats are small and FAST. If it can hit small and fast, bigger and slower might be even easier to hit.

Yeah!  Stupid pilots should just open the canopy and engage with one round from a FAL.  What are people thinking with this silly "fire and forget" technology that helps aircraft stay aloft (and their pilots alive?)

Sounds like they are going for being able to lock onto lower, more indistinct heat signatures.

Awesome. Glad to see there is finally a plan to actually use the external hardpoints. Can you imagine a multi-role aircraft with like DOZENS of Sidewinders, plus a decent internal/external bomb load?

AWESOME.

Sounds like it's about to get more dangerous to be a pirate...

BTW: the guy is in the "slammer" because of political corruption. He was a Calif legilstor.

N/M

USA missiles don't use those any more.  Haven't done so for many years.  The warheads are now blast frag and many actually employ "smart" warhead technology and use an all around laser fuze and a focused warhead that adjusts to the geometry of the endgame to maximize the effect on the target.  Very effective.

Interestingly (and sadly), that F-22A crash near Edwards AFB in March may be related to the AIM-9X's new air-to-ground capability.  If you keep an eye on the aviation blogs (two of the best are AW&ST's Ares and Flight International's DEW Line), you may be aware of the head scratching that accompanied the Washington Post's report that the March 25th crash occurred during a side-bay mounted weapon ground attack test.  The only weapon the F-22A is known to be able to mount in the side-bay is the Sidewinder.  Hence this apology at DEW Line to the WaPo's reporter:

My apologies to The Washington Post

by Stephen Trimble




December 4, 2009




R. Jeffery Smith's sources might have been correct. The F-22 that
crashed on March 25 could have been practicing an air-to-ground
mission, as Smith reported. My blog on August 1 scolding Smith for a seemingly obvious factual error might itself be wrong.
Of course, it wasn't public knowledge until yesterday that Raytheon has converted the AIM-9X into an air-to-ground weapon. So it seems I've uncovered my own error (darn it!).




When the accident investigation report
noted the F-22 crashed during a side weapons bay test, it seemed to
contradict Smith's report. He called it a ground attack test. The only
weapon that fits inside the F-22 side weapons bay is, of course, the
AIM-9X.
We now know that the AIM-9X can also be an air-to-ground weapon.
I
asked Raytheon earlier this week if the fatal F-22 flight test last
March involved the AIM-9X Block 2, which introduces the lock-on-after
launch and air-to-surface capabilities. The company said they cannot
make any comment about the nature of the F-22 flight test on that day.
If
Smith's article was indeed correct, it raises some interesting
possibilities for the F-22 as an air-to-ground fighter. I can't imagine
that the USAF would employ the F-22's immense firepower to stop a speed
boat. But an F-22 firing an air-to-ground version of the AIM-9X
presents other possibilities. One of the F-22's core missions is to
detect and destroy surface-to-air missile systems. Might the new AIM-9X
be useful against such targets, especially against mobile missile
launchers?
Perhaps yes, perhaps no.
But it's no longer
possible to rule out Smith's sources, who told him the F-22 was
conducting an air-to-ground weapons test on that day.
So mea culpa, Jeffrey. I owe you a free beer.





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With respect to the Sidewinder being an almost 60-year old missile, the Sidewinder is the perfect analogy to the "100 year old axe" that has had the axe-head replaced about three times and the handle replaced about ten times.  The beauty of the Sidewinder's longevity is its modular design - which in itself came out of the necessity of it being developed in-house by the Naval Weapons Center in the late-1940s/early-1950s on a shoestring budget.  It used a propulsion unit based on off-the-shelf technology, with a sensor/guidance/warhead section attached to the top.  This simple arrangement allowed both sections of the missile to evolve rapidly to meet various threats and incorporate new technologies as they came on line.  The AIM-9X, particularly its propulsion and thrust vectoring capability, represents the furthest departure from the Sidewinder's traditional rolleron induced stability arrangement (which in itself was brilliant in its simplicity).

 
 

AMERICA FUCK YEA!!!

the older sidewinders used them, which is why I posted the link.

There was a Predator armed with a couple Stinger's that almost shot down a MiG-25 before OIF:

youtube link

Yes he was recently stupid but that doesn't take away from the fact that he is one of America's greatest fighter pilots.

If the Air to air missile misses, is there some sort of internal automatic disarming of the warhead, or is it live all the way down?

The engineers I've known who've worked at Raytheon say it's the most soul sucking depressing place they've ever worked. They do not like to talk about it even if they are doing something cool.

 

That I don't completely know...I know the Rafael Python 4 & 5 have a self destruct sequence if it misses its target..